:facepalm: I should have thought of escaping the $. But otherwise there's
no getting around it being seen by the compiler as GString since the CSS
expression has single quotes, so you have to use doubles for the outside.
I was able to select the radio buttons I wanted, but it turns out that they
aren't interactable, according to Selenium. When I was doing each one
individually, I had to set their value (e.g. $('form')['element_name'] =
'N'). Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that I can assign via the spread
operator. Is that correct?
On Friday, August 21, 2020 at 9:54:22 AM UTC-5 Thomas Hirsch wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> you can escape a $ in a GString by putting a backslash in front, or
> alternatively, not use a GString in the first place, by using only single
> quotes (').
> I haven't double checked the XPath version, sorry for that.
>
> Thomas
>
> On Friday, August 21, 2020 at 4:49:57 PM UTC+2 Ben Frey wrote:
>
>> Cool. Thomas, I tried the CSS selector method and it looks like the
>> compiler is confused by the $ in the end-of-string selector. I think it's
>> colliding with Gstrings.
>> I tried the XPath selector but Selenium complained that the string isn't
>> a valid XPath expression. From some Googling it sounds like the matches
>> function is XPath 2.0, and still almost nothing supports that version.
>> On Friday, August 21, 2020 at 3:22:23 AM UTC-5 [email protected]
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, but you have to be explicit that you are expecting multiple
>>> elements in the navigator and want to click on all of them by using the
>>> spread operator otherwise you will get
>>> a SingleElementNavigatorOnlyMethodException:
>>>
>>> def navigatorWithMultiplelements = $(....)
>>> navigatorWithMultipleElements*.click()
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 7:36 PM Ben Frey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Great. And can I then click all of them at once?
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 12:57:08 PM UTC-5 [email protected]
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Ben,
>>>>>
>>>>> no, you cannot use placeholders like this in CSS selectors, only
>>>>> direct (partial) comparison.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are two common ways to select WebElements in Selenium (which Geb
>>>>> is built on top of).
>>>>> 1. By CSS selectors, which is the the default in Geb, if you just pass
>>>>> a String to the $-method
>>>>> 2. By XPath, which you can do by passing a Selenium-"By"-object to the
>>>>> $-method, like this: $(By.xpath("//div"))
>>>>>
>>>>> XPath gives you much more options, as it really is a small programming
>>>>> language, that allows you to traverse the tree of HTML in pretty much any
>>>>> way you could imagine, including matching of regular expressions.
>>>>>
>>>>> With XPath, it could work like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> $(By.xpath("//*[matches(@name, '
>>>>> parentobject.childlist[\\d].thing')]"))
>>>>>
>>>>> i.e. using "\d", which means "digit" in regular expressions as the
>>>>> wildcard (and escaping that with another backslash because its a
>>>>> Java-String).
>>>>>
>>>>> Another option, using only CSS selectors, could be to combine a
>>>>> start-of-string with an end-of-string selector, like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> $("[name^='parentobject.childlist['][name$='].thing']")
>>>>>
>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ben Frey schrieb am Donnerstag, 20. August 2020 um 16:28:39 UTC+2:
>>>>>
>>>>>> From the concrete example at
>>>>>> https://gebish.org/manual/current/#the-code-code-function, it sounds
>>>>>> like attribute matching is exact, although it's not super clear that
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> is indeed the case. Is this a correct assumption?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If matching is exact, is there any way to match with a wildcard? I'm
>>>>>> working on automating a page that's built with YUI, and the name
>>>>>> attributes
>>>>>> for elements are built from Java objects, so for example
>>>>>> name="parentobject.childlist[0].thing". Is there a way to select all
>>>>>> indices of the childlist, like name="parentobject.childlist[*].thing"?
>>>>>
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