Hi Titus Thanks for the detailed explanation and the documentation link. Unfortunately my confusion doesnt get clarified.
As you said for an element which eventually displays, for example a pop up that appears due to a user action, we can read the text by *scenario 1* "my_element.when_present.text" because when_present get info from element that eventually *displays* The above changed to my_element.text, post Watir6.0 as the wait was made automatic *scenario 2* "my_element.wait_until(&:present?).text" also waits for the element to be displayed like "my_element.when_present.text" So they are one and the same. Because they are one and the same and post Watir6.0 the when_present wait was made automatic we can achieve the above objective with "my_element.text" So there will never be a case where we have to use wait_until(&:present?). This is my theory. Is that correct? Cheers Navi On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 14:52:33 UTC+10, NaviHan wrote: > > This is something that keeps me a bit sceptic when I write and read the > automation code in my project. > This used PageObjects. > > I have seen extensive use of element referces, for example > > button(:add_to_bag, :css => '#add-to-cart') > add_to_bag.element.when_present.click > > > > instead of > > add_to_bag > > which directly clicks the element > > I have also seen extensive use of referencing elements using > <element>.when_present, <element>.wait_until_present etc > > Im confused where we should draw the line when deciding to reference the > element and actually using it(as in directly calling "add_o_bag" in the above > example to click the element. > > Any thoughts? > > > -- -- Before posting, please read https://github.com/watir/watir_meta/wiki/Guidelines-for-Posting-to-Watir-General-Google-Group. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
