Assign extracted element value to a variable

[finspin]

I'd like to store the element value which I extracted with xpath to a variable but I can't seem to make it work.

Here is the HTML:
<option value="test1">John Smith</option>

Here is what I tried but doesn't work:
${var1} =    xpath=//option[@value="test1"]/text()
${var1} =    Get Element Attribute    xpath=//option[@value="test1"]/text()

I need the element value to be used in the Select From List keyword.

Any ideas?

[Kevin O.]

I think you're looking for Get Text, which is not in any released version of S2L.
You can either manually patch S2L by copying get_text() from  https://github.com/rtomac/robotframework-selenium2library/blob/master/src/Selenium2Library/keywords/_element.py

Or

you can create a user library that works with Selenium2Library as is. Calling a private method like this is bad form, but this is just a workaround for a missing keyword.

from robot.libraries.BuiltIn import BuiltIn 

class MyS2LExtensions(object):

    def get_text(self, locator):

        """Returns the text value of element identified by `locator`.

        See `introduction` for details about locating elements.

        """

        s2l = BuiltIn().get_library_instance('Selenium2Library')

        return s2l._get_text(locator)

Kevin

[Tatu aalto]

Ugh

Without knowing anything about S2L, would it be possible to have same sort of keyword as in SL: Call selenium api?

Somehow I am under the impression that it could solve some these missing keyword problems.

-Tatu

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[Kevin O.]

Not only possible but easy to do in a user keyword. Some things are accomplished by fetching attributes of a WebDriver instance, but S2L monkey patches WebDriver so that it has methods instead.

| *** Settings *** |

| Library        | Selenium2Library |

| *** Test Cases *** |

| How NOT To Use Selenium2Library |

|    | Open Browser | http://jenkins-ci.org/ | ie |

|    | ${element} | Call Selenium API | find_element_by_id | page |

|    | Log | ${element.text} |

| *** Keywords *** |

| Call Selenium API |

|    | [Arguments] | ${method} | @{varargs} |

|    | ${S2L} | Get Library Instance | Selenium2Library |

|    | ${WebDriver} | Call Method | ${S2L} | _current_browser |

|    | ${return value} | Call Method | ${WebDriver} | ${method} | @{varargs} |

|    | [Return] | ${return value} |