How to combine two ready selenium2library keywords?

[Huy Chau]

Hello guys,

I am currently trying to select multiple rows in a table cell but have not found any way to complete the Shift holding key. I am wondering if I could combine 2 ready keywords from selenium2library "Press Key" and "Click Element" to fulfill my need?

If it is possible, how can it be done?

Much appreciate,

Huy

[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

What you ask is possible, by extending Selenium2Library, but before doing that have you tried the Select From List keyword. Or the Select From List By* keywords?

-Tatu
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[1] http://robotframework.org/Selenium2Library/doc/Selenium2Library.html#Select%20From%20List

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[Huy Chau]

Hello Tatu,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried but still can't find a way to highlight multiple rows in a table cell with "Select From List" or "Select From List By*" keywords.

How does it include the "Shift" key in this case? 

For example: my table cell includes 10 rows (.ui-grid-row), I would like to left-click on second row and hold shift then left-click 6th row. 

I can definitely use "Click Element" but the middle-progress with "Shift" key is still a misery. 

Kiitos paljon,

[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

Unfortunately there is not keyword which could Shift + Click out of the box, but the good news is that it is easy to extend Selenium2Library (or any library in Robot Framework) and make a keyword that does the trick what you need. To be able press key down, while you click, you must use selenium ActionChains [1] and you need to get the Selenium2Library instance [2] from Robot Framework during run time. Something like this could work:

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from robot.libraries.BuiltIn import BuiltIn


def press_key_with_shift(*selectors):
    if not selectors:
        raise ValueError()
    s2l = BuiltIn().get_library_instance('Selenium2Library')
    driver = s2l._current_browser()
    actions = ActionChains(driver)
    actions.key_down(Keys.SHIFT)
    for selector in selectors:
        elem = driver.find_element_by_name(selector)
        actions.click(elem)
    actions.key_up(Keys.SHIFT).perform()


-Tatu
[1] http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/py/webdriver/selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains.html#module-selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains
[2] http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#getting-active-library-instance-from-robot-framework

[Huy Chau]

Hi Tatu,

Maybe I am a little bit too dumb. I created a python class with your "press_key_with_shift" function below and tried to use it into my RF test case as:

Press Key With Shift    css=.ui-grid-row:nth-child(2)   css=.ui-grid-row:nth-child(6)

I receive error while running: "NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"name","selector":"css=.marketInfo .ui-grid-pinned-container-left .ui-grid-viewport .ui-grid-canvas .ui-grid-row:nth-child(2) .ui-grid-cell"}

  (Session info: chrome=47.0.2526.106)

  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.19.346078 (6f1f0cde889532d48ce8242342d0b84f94b114a1),platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86_64)"

Is there anything I am missing?

Regards,

Huy

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[m m]

Ugh

I did hard code how the element is searched and I didn't use parsing provided by the Selenium2Library. If you look at the line 14 in your class, there is: find_element_by_name, if you want to use  CSS as selector, change: find_element_by_name to find_element_by_css and provide the locator without the css= part.

-Tatu

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[Huy Chau]

Super! 

It works like a champ now. Except I had to modify the "driver.find_element_by_css" to "driver.find_element_by_css_selector" 

Thanks a lot, Tatu :)