Hybrid App - Automating a date picker

[Tester]

Hi,

I am using Appium to automate my hybrid app on an iPhone simulator.

One of the pages in my app is a web view page but has a dob field which is of type 'date' and opens up the date picker.

I tried to enter date using sendKeys method of WebElement in web driver. But did not help.

Any help here?

Thanks

[Jonathan Lipps]

You could try backing out of webview mode and finding the datepicker as a native element, setting it that way, then going back into webview mode.

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[Tester]

Good idea!! I tried it, the date picker comes up but still the year is not getting set. This is my code.

    driver.findElements(By.tagName("textfield")).get(3).click();

    driver.findElements(By.tagName("picker")).get(0).findElements(By.tagName("pickerwheel")).get(2).sendKeys("1995");

    driver.findElement(By.name("Done")).click();

The above works for my collegue who launches appium through command line.

I launch appium through ide and the version i have is 1.5.5.

Should I try anything different?

[Vikas Chaudhary]

Hi,

I am using Appium driver and when I am trying to select the datepicker with tagname, it says that [31morg.openqa.selenium.UnsupportedCommandException: Invalid locator strategy: tag name

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
Vikas

[Isaac Murchie]

The 'tag name' locator strategy is no longer available. Mostly you can do what was done using 'automation id'.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Vikas Chaudhary <vika...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am using Appium driver and when I am trying to select the datepicker with tagname, it says that [31morg.openqa.selenium.UnsupportedCommandException: Invalid locator strategy: tag name

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
Vikas

On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:20:10 PM UTC-4, Mugil wrote:

Hi,

I am using Appium to automate my hybrid app on an iPhone simulator.

One of the pages in my app is a web view page but has a dob field which is of type 'date' and opens up the date picker.

I tried to enter date using sendKeys method of WebElement in web driver. But did not help.

Any help here?

Thanks

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[Josh Kolber]

How would that call look like in python? I'm trying self.driver.find_element_by_accessibility_id('Date Picker Field').send_keys('May 23, 2014') to set the date in a UIApickerwheel date selector, but the picker doesn't take that as valid input.

[Isaac Murchie]

Sorry, I meant accessibility id. Do you get the element?

The UIADatePicker seems to set the date through `selectValue` (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/ToolsLanguages/Reference/UIAPickerWheelClassReference/UIAPickerWheel/UIAPickerWheel.html). I would suggest trying to execute UIAutomation code directly (as exemplified in this test: https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/9fad0ac6e42165e40b086df3a711e4e231a75ed7/test/functional/ios/uicatalog/execute-specs.js).