I'm relatively new to Watir but can find no good documentation (examples) regarding how to check if an element exists. There are the API specs, of course, but these make precious little sense to me if I don't find an example.
I've tried both combinations but nothing seems to work...
if browser.image (:src "/media/images/icons/reviewertools/editreview.jpg").exists
then...
if browser.image (:src "/media/images/icons/reviewertools/editreview.jpg").exists?
then...
If anyone has a concrete suggestion as per how to implement this, please help! Thanks!
It seems you are missing a comma between parameters.
Should be
if browser.image(:src, "/media/images/icons/reviewertools/editreview.jpg").exists?
Also you can find this page useful in future to know what attributes are supported.
The code you posted should work just fine.
Edit: Oops, wrong. As Katmoon pointed out, there is a missing comma.
browser.image(:src "/media/images/icons/reviewertools/editreview.jpg").exists?
One problem you may get caught up in is if the browser variable you specified is actually an element that doesn't exist.
e.g.
b = Watir::IE.start(ipAddress)
b.frame(:name, "doesntExist).image(:src "/media/images/icons/reviewertools/editreview.jpg").exists?
The above code will throw a Watir::UnknownFrameException. You can get around this by first verifying the frame exists or by surrounding the code in a begin/rescue block.
Seems like you are using it correctly. Here is an old RDoc of Watir.
Does it not work because Watir cannot find it? Hard to tell because there is no source or link to the page that is being tested. I think that I only use image.exists?. In general, errors that come from when the image exists but is not found are:
The how is not compatible with the element type. There is a cheatsheet to help you see which object types can be found with different attributes here.
The what is not correct. You may have to play with that a little bit. Consider trying a regex string to match it such as browser.image(:src, /editreview.jpg/). As a last resort, maybe use element_by_xpath, but there are maintenance costs with that.
The location is not correct. Maybe the element is in a frame or something like that. browser.frame("detail").image(:src, /editreview.jpg/).
Try those, but please let me know what worked. One more thing, what are you checking for? If it's part of the test criteria, you can handle it that way. If you need to click on it, then forget the .exists? and just click on it. Ruby will let you know if it's not there. If you need it to be grace, learn about begin/rescue.
Good luck,
Dave
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So i think this is one area that I run into issues with, and despite Cypress's amazing documentation assertions sort of feel lacking (but maybe thats because they use Chai assertions and I should be looking there? but even then i've run into confusion).
Anyways, it seems like when I am asserting on some items within cypress I return into conflicting results and I can't seem to pinpoint any reason why.
A few examples specifically:
Why does should(‘contain’,'{Some Text}) search child elements but should(‘have.text/value’,{Some Text}) does not? Or at least thats how it appears? I can't find any documentation that states this
In the example above I noticed this when having a cy.get on an angular dropdown toggle with a <span> within it (that contains the text).
Another oddity is have.text vs have.value. I've noticed sometimes works when the other doesn't. For example input fields only have.value works but not contains or have.text. Is there any reason for this?
I guess im trying to figure out if there is some cheat sheet/guide to when to use each one because it's mostly been trial and error for me (But i'd like to know "why" one works and the other doesn't).
Thanks!
I used to use queries like this when searching:
https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn:0590353403&langRestrict=en&maxResults=5&printType=books&showPreorders=false&fields=items(volumeInfo(authors,imageLinks,pageCount,title,industryIdentifiers))
Recently however, it seems that using langRestrict=en no longer return results. If I remove that, it works again.
https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn:0590353403&maxResults=5&printType=books&showPreorders=false&fields=items(volumeInfo(authors,imageLinks,pageCount,title,industryIdentifiers))
If I look at the book in question, the language is listed as language="un" now:
https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn:0590353403
Can anyone explain what changed, and should I be using langRestrict=un instead? (What language is un? I can't seem to find information on it.) Thank you.
i'm getting started with sitecore and i just discovered this tool sitecore offers to test our queries:
My problem is i just can't make it return results and i do know this query works perfectly cause i've been using it on my project right now.
There is probably a problem of syntax somwhere i don't know.
Thank you for helping me to put some light on this !
It's a bit difficult to tell due to how bits of that are redacted (there might be other syntax errors hiding under the boxes), but there's one obvious issue there, I think: You don't need the "query:" bit on the beginning of what you've typed.
In general, if the API or web form your filling in can only take a query expression you can leave the "query:" bit off. But if you're putting text into somewhere that might take a query or might take something else then "query:" is needed to tell Sitecore what it's looking at.
I've seen lots of the other answers here and there is one that I saw but I can't implement it. I can't really figure it out.
I'm trying to filter Fiddler so that there is only one device's traffic. I know I'm supposed to somehow use oSession["x-clientIP"], but I have no idea how. Is there anybody that could help me figure out what I have to paste in to the custom rules file? If lets say the client-ip that I was trying to filter based on was 192.200.1.1, how do I do this?
The documentation barely has anything for this (at least for what I looked for) and looking through the actual file doesn't have any examples I can work off of. Thanks ahead of time!
Rules > Customize Rules. Scroll to OnBeforeRequest.
Add the following inside that block:
if (!"192.200.1.1".Equals(oSession.oFlags["X-ClientIP"]))
{
oSession["ui-hide"] = "not the device I care about";
}
I'm somewhat new to automation, and am learning everything auto-didactically, so forgive me if my terminology is a bit off. I've searched hi and low for an answer to this question, and I can't seem to find anything. I presume it's my small vocabulary when it comes to this stuff... anyway...
I'm attempting to write a test that performs all the actions necessary to complete a tutorial by using the recorder. However, for one particular step, the element ID changes. For example, the ID I'm trying to click is this:
//li[#id='message_661119']/div[2]/div[2]/a/img
However, for each new user that is performing the tutorial "quest", the number of the id changes.
Is there anyway to get Selenium to recognize, or use, wildcards? Example:
//li[#id='message_******']/div[2]/div[2]/a/img
Of course, the example above does not work.
Any advice would be immensely helpful. Thank you!!
You can use starts-with() for this:
//li[starts-with(#id, 'message_')]/div[2]/div[2]/a/img
It's one of the examples mentioned in Locating Techniques in Selenium's docs for starts-with().
In Target field of the command in Selenium IDE where you can see message_123123 click on a dropdownlist and choose an option which is related to xpath:idRelative or if this one doesn't work then try another options which do not include that annoying message_123123 so this way you'll identify webpage element by it's location but not id. I solved my issue this way