Find button by name

[ma...@bootstraponline.com]

I'm testing a native app with Appium. I can find all buttons.

@driver.find_elements :tag_name, :button

The only attribute that doesn't crash is name.

button.attribute :name

:class - crash

:class_name - crash

:css - crash

:id - crash

:link_text - crash

:link  - crash

:partial_link_text - crash 

:name - "Sign In"

:tag_name - crash

:xpath - crash

I can't find a specific button by name as mentioned in this thread. The result is always an empty array.

@driver.find_elements(:tag_name, 'button/Sign In')

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/appium-discuss/RwZAIwfglls/kQKlaPlLMXEJ

Is the only way to find a specific button by checking the name attribute on every button?

[bootstrap online]

I can see name, type, and label in @driver.page_source. find_element
only works with :name though.

[30] pry(main)> @driver.find_element :name, "Sign In"
=> #<Selenium::WebDriver::Element:0x..faf984c8e12b48416 id="0">

[31] pry(main)> @driver.find_element :type, "UIAButton"
ArgumentError: cannot find element by :type

[32] pry(main)> @driver.find_element :label, "Sign In"
ArgumentError: cannot find element by :label

[Jonathan Lipps]

I believe the two supported locator strategies are "tag name" and "name". We use a modified set of "tag names", based on mechanic.js, so this should work:

@driver.find_element :tag_name, "button"

And this (which you already discovered):

@driver.find_element :name, "Sign In"

This needs documentation.

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[bootstrap online]

Is there a way to use :tag_name to identify a specific button? It
seems to return any button. According to an old post, the :tag_name,
"button/Button Name" syntax use to work.

[Jonathan Lipps]

Hmm, that find-by-tag-name syntax isn't supported in this version of Appium. Which post are you referring to?

The way I would find a specific button right now is to find all the buttons using @driver.find_elements :tag_name, "button" and select the appropriate index to work on, or simply find the one element by :name if it is unique. (We encourage name to be unique, like an HTML id).

Selectors are a priority for expansion, but unfortunately UIAutomation isn't consistent in the properties it sets, and we found that "name" was the best candidate for finding individual unique elements, ideologically equivalent to @driver.find_element :id.

[bootstrap online]

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Jonathan Lipps <jli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, that find-by-tag-name syntax isn't supported in this version of Appium. Which post are you referring to?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/appium-discuss/RwZAIwfglls/kQKlaPlLMXEJ

I think finding buttons by name will work.

[Jonathan Lipps]

Hmm, that custom "tagName/text" locator is quite different from Selenium protocol. If we re-implement something like that, I'd want to use the xpath strategy and do something like "//button[@name='Click me']" to conform more closely to the spec.

Anyone have thoughts on a what an xpath-like syntax could look like for UIAutomation?

[Andrew Rymar]

Does anybody know how to find the element by it's classname? Not the generic UIButton, but some custom MyClassButton. Unfortunately, :tag_name doesn't work in that case.

[Jonathan Lipps]

Unfortunately I don't think Instruments allows you to look for custom element types.

On Aug 6, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Andrew Rymar <andrew...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anybody know how to find the element by it's classname? Not the generic UIButton, but some custom MyClassButton. Unfortunately, :tag_name doesn't work in that case.

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