You should try :
try {
assertElementPresentByXPath("//d...@id='bob']"));
////perform actions
}
catch(Exception e) {
//this corresponds to your "else" statement
}
Good luck,
François
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Stand Trooper <standtroo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Ok, so I've been toying with this for a day or so without revelation, so
> I'm hoping that I can find the answer here. I've searched the cryptic
> archives and read javadocs and even played with a lot of different things.
>
> What I need to do is find out if an element is present before I move on.
>
> for example:
> if (elementExists("//d...@id='bob']")) {
> //perform action
> }
>
> or even an override to getElement that passes a boolean to not do the
> assertion, if the element doesn't exist it returns a null object.
>
> Right now, I have a series of interactions on forms that may cause errors
> that I'm testing, if an error displays, then an element will show up on the
> page. I'm doing about 295,000 automated tests right now and I'll be bumping
> that up to about 895k tests once these are done. I can't just do an
> assertTextPresent or assertTextNotPresent, I need to detect if something is
> there, if it is, then perform a specific action and move on without taking
> down the tests and having to start over.
>
> Is there anything like that that I can use? If not, that's ok, I'll have
> to write some code, unless someone has something quick in mind.
>
> thx
>
> timo
> StandTrooper
>
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