Get all attributes or xPath of element in Webdriver - ruby

Question

I'm trying to do simple monkey test for my web page, which get all active elements on page and click on them in random order.
When i do this I want to write a log to know, on which element my test click and on which test crashed
So I want log file to look like this
01.01.11 11.01.01 Clicked on Element <span id='myspan' class ='myclass .....>
01.01.11 11.01.01 Clicked on Element <span id='button' class ='myclass title = 'Button'.....>
or
01.01.11 11.01.01 Clicked on Element //*[#id='myspan']
01.01.11 11.01.01 Clicked on Element //*[#id='button']
Is it any way to do in Webdriver + Ruby?

Answer 1

I don't think there is a way but you could always do something like this (with watir-webdriver):
browser.divs.each do |div|
puts '<span ' + ['id','class','title'].map{|x| "#{x}='#{div.attribute_value(x)}'"}.join(' ') + '>'
end

Answer 2

WebDriver does not provide this type of functionality, you would have to get the page source and do some of your own parsing - I've done this in Html Agility Pack with C#, you would need to find a similar library for ruby (see: Options for HTML scraping?)

Answer 3

You can do this:
Get all elements, which are clickable
For example, find all links, find all clickable spans. Put those candidates in a list
Randomly pick a element in that candidate list
Click the very element and write some log

Answer 4

I tweaked #pguardiario's answer to come up with this method:
def get_element_dom_info(#e)
if #e.class != Selenium::WebDriver::Element
raise "No valid element passed: #{#e.class}"
end
#attrs = ['id', 'class', 'title', 'href', 'src', 'type', 'name']
return "<" + #e.tag_name + #attrs.map{ |x| " #{x}='#{#e.attribute(x)}'" if #e.attribute(x) && #e.attribute(x) != "" }.join('') + ">"
end
Of course, it expects that the single parameter you pass into it is an actual Selenium element. Also, it doesn't include every possible attribute, but that's the majority of them (and you can always add your extra attributes if needed).
I suppose you can integrate this via some code like this:
def clickElement(*args)
... # parse vars
#e = #driver.find_element(...)
puts get_timestamp + " Clicked on Element: " + get_element_dom_info(#e)
end
UPDATE
I recently realized that I could get the full html of the element using native javascript (d'oh!). You have to use a hack to get the "outerHTML". Here is my new method:
def get_element_dom_info(how, what)
e = #driver.find_element(how, what)
# Use native javascript to return element dom info by creating a wrapper
# that the element node is cloned to and we check the innerHTML of the parent wrapper.
return #driver.execute_script("var f = document.createElement('div').appendChild(arguments[0].cloneNode(true)); return f.parentNode.innerHTML", e)
end