As of 6.13 you can now that wait like this:
b.label(id: 'something').wait_until(text: 'Expected Text')
On Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 4:40:53 AM UTC-7, rajagopalan madasami
wrote:
>
> Hi Navi,
>
> yes, you are right with your understanding.
>
> WATIR locates elements completely different from Selenium
>
> When you write,
>
> element=b.span(id: 'click')
>
> It doesn't locate the element, but when you write
>
> element.click
>
> it locates the element and continue to perform the click operation, this
> arrangement is useful to relocate the element when element goes to stale,
> waiting until element is visible and likewise this arrangement is useful
> for cases. Technically this should include even when I call text method as
> well. But I do in my project here is,
>
> I write code like
>
> b.wait_until(b.label(id: 'something').text?'Expected Text')
>
> This will reexecute the statement for 30 seconds, otherwise it would throw
> the error
>
> Or
>
> b.label(id: 'something').wait_until{|element| element.text.eql?'Expected
> Text'}
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:16 AM NaviHan <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Titus
>>
>> Thats makes it very clear now :-)
>>
>> Just to confirm, action methods as in set, click, select
>> And the reading attribute values like id, text, or any other custom
>> attribute are not auto covered and we need to use wait_until(&:present?)
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>>
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