Wait until document ready

[Arpad Cseh]

Hi all!

I'm working with a web page testers team and I occasionally review their code (I'm a FE developer). I have seen that they use browser.waitForElementVisible('body') in order to ensure page load. Which (as far as I see) is polling based, would be possible to implement a document ready event listener/callback based solution for that? Or maybe there are some known methods to perform the same result? I think it would give us much better and safer test cases, what do you think?

( I'm relativelly new in nightwatch js world but I can read the source code :) )

BTW. here is the jquerys way for document ready: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/91850ecbbe04ad8f5d89dc050aa1d9002047c435/src/core/ready.js

Take care,

Arpad

[Dan Caseley]

Isn't this an implementation for a very special case? Or are you advocating special listeners for waitForElementVisible / waitForElementPresent calls?

I don't usually wait for body - usually I'm waiting for something else that's been loaded asynchronously from a second JS call on the page, or some other thing happening in the ways of RIA rather than the static web.

HTH, although I doubt it...

Dan