Managed to solve the issue thanks to some help from a reply I got here -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27495966/can-not-clear-selected-options-in-a-multi-select-list-whilst-driving-the-browser
Looks like I was using a very old version of the selenium-server-standalone
jar. I upgraded the *selenium-server-standalone-2.0b1.jar* to the latest
version *selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar* and now getting the right
output as below without exception being raised.
*Is the combo list visible?
true
is the list a multi-select list?
true
Has the ADD option been selected?
false
Has the CHG option been selected?
false
[]
1 scenario (1 passed)
6 steps (6 passed)
0m33.203s
Process finished with exit code 0*
On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:03:47 UTC+11, Costa Antzoulatos wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am using Cucumber and watir-webdriver to write automated tests for my
> application. My objective is to clear the default selected "ADD" and "CHG"
> options in the following multi select list and then re-select the ADD
> option.
>
> *<select name="actions_arr" id="actions_arr" style="width: 190px; height:
> 110px;" multiple="multiple">
> <option value="Any">
> <option value="CHG">
> <option value="ADD">
> <input name="_actions_arr" type="hidden" value="1"/>*
>
> I have written the following ruby function (including some diagnostic
> debug print commands) to clear the select list. In this case the
> variable *action_type* = ADD. Issue is that when I run the
> browser in headless mode I cannot clear the selected options and I get a
> watir exception saying that the list is not a multi select list even
> htouhg it really is. However if I drive the app using a local instance
> of the IE8 browser, the select list is recognised as a multi select list
> and I can clear the options getting the expected results.
>
>
>
> *def set_action_type(action_type)
> s = @browser.div(:id => 'tabs').frame(:id => 'container').div(:id =>
> 'sidebar').select_list(:id => 'actions_arr')
> puts "Is the combo list visible?"
> puts s.visible?
> puts "is the list a multi-select list?"
> puts s.multiple?
> s.clear
> puts "Has the ADD option been selected?"
> puts s.selected?action_type
> puts "Has the CHG option been selected?"
> puts s.selected? 'CHG'
> puts s.selected_options
> end*1) When driving the application using a headless browser I get the
> following output:
>
> *Is** the combo list visible?
>
> true
>
> is the list a multi-select list?
>
> false
>
> Watir::Exception::Error: you can only clear multi-selects
> ./features/step_definitions/atom_steps.rb:43:in `set_action_type'
> ./features/step_definitions/atom_steps.rb:169:in `/^I select the "(.*?)"
> action type$/'
> E:\ATOM_TEST\AcceptanceTest\atom\features\filtering.feature:10:in `And I
> select the "ADD" action type'
> 1 scenario (1 failed)
> 5 steps (1 failed, 4 passed)
> 0m32.188s
>
> Process finished with exit code 1 *
>
> 2) When driving a local instance of the IE8 browser I get the following
> output which is correct (ignoring the scenario fail message as all test
> steps actually pass):
>
>
>
> *Is the combo list visible?
>
> true
>
> is the list a multi-select list?
>
> true
>
> Has the ADD option been selected?
>
> false
>
> Has the CHG option been selected?
>
> false
>
> []
> 1 scenario (1 failed)
> 5 steps (5 passed)
> 2m1.766s
>
> Process finished with exit code 1*
>
> The question I have is
>
> 1. How can I get the above multi-select list test to pass when running
> in headless browser mode so that I can clear the options in the
> select_list
> using *s.clear* ?
> 2. Is there any other workarounds ?
>
> In regards to 1) I have also tried creating a simple HTML page containing
> only a multiselect list and launching this page in my browser however
> *s.multiple?* still returns *false*
>
> In regards to 2) I'm experimenting with trying to send CONTROL and mouse
> click select commands using the actionbuilder class in selenium webdriver
> to simulate clearing the selected options as a user would do through the UI.
>
> Please note the below code I use that launches the browser in headless
> mode:
>
> *require 'watir-webdriver'
> require 'selenium/server'
> include Selenium
>
>
> Before do
> @server = Selenium::Server.new("selenium-server-standalone-2.0b1.jar",
> :background => true)
> @server.start # run your tests
> capabilities = WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.htmlunit(:javascript_enabled
> => true)
> @browser = Watir::Browser.new(:remote, :url => 'http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub
> <http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub>', :desired_capabilities => capabilities)
> #Uncomment the below line and comment out the above lines if you don't want
> to run in headless mode
> #@browser = Watir::Browser.new :ie
> end
> After do
> @browser.link(:text => 'Logout').click
> @browser.close
> @server.stop
> end *
>
>
>
>
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