Selenium clicks the line but WATIR doesn't click the same link, So there is a bug the way WATIR identifying the Link

Raja gopalan

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Mar 26, 2017, 1:18:14 PM3/26/17

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I have written the following selenium code to click this link

@driver.find_element(:link,'Recharge').click

It successfully clicks the line

I have written the same code in WATIR as shown below

@b.link(:text,'Recharge').click

but it throws element not present error

I checked out how this above code works, this above code forms this xpath at the end

"//a[normalize-space()='Recharge']"

So I suspected that this xpath might be the reason, So I have written the below selenium code using this xpath, As I expected the same error was

thrown by selenium as well(element is not visible)

@driver.find_element(:xpath,"//a[normalize-space()='Recharge']").click

So what I think is, WATIR should refrain forming the xpath when b.link is called, they can directly convert this code to @driver.find_element(:link,'Recharge') but they

can form the xpath when b.element(:text,'Recharge') is called

any suggestion?

Titus Fortner

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Mar 26, 2017, 6:05:51 PM3/26/17

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Is Watir finding a different link? Or is Selenium just allowing the user to click a link that is not displayed?

There are definitely ways that Watir can optimize its locator strategies, but that part of the code is not trivial to dig into. As always, pull requests are welcome.

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Raja gopalan

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Mar 27, 2017, 12:38:52 AM3/27/17

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Link is clearly visible to click

If I write

@b.link(:text,'Recharge').click

WATIR converts this code into

@driver.find_element(:xpath,"//a[normalize-space()='Recharge']").click

but this selenium code says that element is not visible, So it's not working.

If I write the following selenium code

@driver.find_element(:link,'Recharge').click

It works properly.

Do you understand me now?

On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 3:05:51 PM UTC-7, Titus Fortner wrote:

Is Watir finding a different link? Or is Selenium just allowing the user to click a link that is not displayed?

There are definitely ways that Watir can optimize its locator strategies, but that part of the code is not trivial to dig into. As always, pull requests are welcome.

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Raja gopalan <rajagopa...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have written the following selenium code to click this link

@driver.find_element(:link,'Recharge').click

It successfully clicks the line

I have written the same code in WATIR as shown below

@b.link(:text,'Recharge').click

but it throws element not present error

I checked out how this above code works, this above code forms this xpath at the end

"//a[normalize-space()='Recharge']"

So I suspected that this xpath might be the reason, So I have written the below selenium code using this xpath, As I expected the same error was

thrown by selenium as well(element is not visible)

@driver.find_element(:xpath,"//a[normalize-space()='Recharge']").click

So what I think is, WATIR should refrain forming the xpath when b.link is called, they can directly convert this code to @driver.find_element(:link,'Recharge') but they

can form the xpath when b.element(:text,'Recharge') is called

any suggestion?

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Titus Fortner

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Mar 27, 2017, 11:48:37 AM3/27/17

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Those two locators should find the same element, but it appears it is not if one says the element exists but is not visible and the other says it is visible. To figure out why it is finding a different element, I'd need to see the underlying html.

Raja gopalan

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Mar 27, 2017, 2:21:29 PM3/27/17

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Here is the code



require 'watir'
class AirTelRecharge
 def initialize
 caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.firefox(marionette: false)
 @b=Watir::Browser.new :firefox, desired_capabilities: caps, profile: "default"
 @b.goto "https://www.airtel.in/"
 @driver=@b.driver
 @driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait=10
 end

 def execute
 @b.element(:text, 'Pay & Recharge').click
 @driver.find_element(:link,'Recharge').click #Here is the problem this code doesn't work for @b.element(:text,'Recharge').click
 end
end

AirTelRecharge.new.execute

Titus Fortner

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Mar 27, 2017, 5:13:16 PM3/27/17

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I'd need to see the html to see why it works for one of the locator strategies, but not the other.

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Raja gopalan

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Mar 28, 2017, 12:13:03 AM3/28/17

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Here is the Html code

<html>

<head>

<body>

<main>

<ul>

<li>

<ul>

</li>

</ul>

</div>

</article>

</section>

<ul>

<li>

<a module-id="common" data-i18n="savings_account" href="javascript:void(0);">Savings Account</a>

<ul>

</li>

<li>

</ul>

</div>

</article>

</section>

</div>

</nav>

</header>

</div>

</main>

</body>

</html>

</document>

Titus Fortner

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Mar 28, 2017, 12:32:57 AM3/28/17

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This html doesn't have any links with text equal to "Recharge"

Raja gopalan

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Mar 28, 2017, 12:24:16 PM3/28/17

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hi, sorry, that was not done properly, here is the html file

<ul>

<li>

<a module-id="common" data-i18n="recharge" href="javascript:void(0);">Recharge</a>

<ul>

</li>

<li>

</ul>

</div>

</article>

</section>

Titus Fortner

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Mar 28, 2017, 12:34:08 PM3/28/17

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Apparently you included the link in an earlier post that I missed. It does look like Watir is grabbing a different, hidden element. I'll try to take a longer look at it tonight.

Titus

Raja gopalan

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Mar 28, 2017, 12:41:27 PM3/28/17

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This is the link "https://www.airtel.in/" once you entered, please click "PAY & RECHARGE" then you will have Recharge option.

Raja gopalan

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Mar 28, 2017, 12:41:35 PM3/28/17

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This is the link "https://www.airtel.in/" once you entered, please click "PAY & RECHARGE" then you will have Recharge option.

Justin Ko

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Mar 28, 2017, 4:49:25 PM3/28/17

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The difference appears to be that `b.link(:text, 'Recharge')` includes hidden links, where as `driver.find_element(:link, 'Recharge')` only includes visible links.

The page includes 8 links with the matching text:

<a class="mega-menu-link" data-mega-menu="recharge" href="javascript:void(0);">Recharge</a>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" data-i18n="recharge" module-id="common">Recharge</a>
<a target="_self" href="https://www.airtel.in/netbanking/payments-recharges" data-i18n="recharge" module-id="common" onclick="setCookie('headerlink','Bank WithUs> Savings Account > Manage Account > Recharge')">Recharge</a>
<a target="_self" href="https://www.airtel.in/netbanking/payments-recharges" data-i18n="recharge" module-id="common" onclick="setCookie('headerlink','Bank WithUs> Wallet > Transact > Recharge')">Recharge</a>
<a target="_self" href="https://www.airtel.in/netbanking/payments-recharges" data-i18n="recharge" module-id="common" onclick="setCookie('headerlink','Bank WithUs> Savings Account > Manage Account > Recharge')">Recharge</a>
<a target="_self" href="https://www.airtel.in/netbanking/payments-recharges" data-i18n="recharge" module-id="common" onclick="setCookie('headerlink','Bank WithUs> Wallet > Transact > Recharge')">Recharge</a>
<a onclick="setCookie('headerlink','Savings Account > Transact > Recharge')" target="_self" href="https://www.airtel.in/netbanking/payments-recharges" data-i18n="recharge" module-id="common">Recharge</a>
<a onclick="setCookie('headerlink','Wallet > Transact > Recharge')" target="_self" href="https://www.airtel.in/netbanking/payments-recharges" data-i18n="recharge" module-id="common">Recharge</a>

However, only the 2nd one, which is the one you want, is visible:

b.links(:text, 'Recharge').map(&:visible?)
#=> [false, true, false, false, false, false, false, false]

You get an exception in Watir because it is clicking on the first one, which is hidden. You could simulate what Selenium is doing by adding the visible locator:

b.link(text: 'Recharge', visible: true).click

Justin

Raja gopalan

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Mar 29, 2017, 3:25:21 AM3/29/17

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Ah! Okay,

The difference appears to be that `b.link(:text, 'Recharge')` includes hidden links, where as `driver.find_element(:link, 'Recharge')` only includes visible links.

Then that's the bug then in WATIR, why not WATIR directly convert this line

b.link(:text,'Recharge')

into

driver.find_element(:link,'Recharge')

And when we write

b.element(:text,'Recharge')

into

driver.find_element(:xpath,"//*[normalize-space()='Rechage']")

That would be more appropriate,right?

Raja gopalan

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Mar 29, 2017, 3:43:00 AM3/29/17

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Continuing to my previous reply

Okay, I just found

b.element(:link,'Recharge').click

does that Job.

On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 1:49:25 PM UTC-7, Justin Ko wrote:

Raja gopalan

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Mar 29, 2017, 3:47:52 AM3/29/17

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Titus, I just noticed that watir handled that possibility when I write

b.element(:link,'Recharge').click

The following succeeds because selenium finder includes :link.

if WD_FINDERS.include?(how)

how, what = @selector.to_a.first
selector_builder.check_type(how, what)

if WD_FINDERS.include?(how)
 wd_find_first_by(how, what)
else
 find_first_by_multiple
end

Titus Fortner

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Mar 29, 2017, 10:13:36 AM3/29/17

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Yes, we discussed some of the peculiarities with matching strings and regex a couple years ago: https://github.com/watir/watir/issues/342

Raja gopalan

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Mar 29, 2017, 12:19:51 PM3/29/17

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Yes, WATIR manages extremely well!

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