#wait_while_present will do a #reset! (remove the cache of the driver
object) and attempt to locate the element from scratch with the selector
`{class: "here"}`. If it finds it, then the wait loop will continue, if it
does not find it, it will exit out of the waiting loop.
Incidentally, I think I've found a way to make that the default behavior
for `wait_until(&:present?)` so I might be deprecating
`#wait_while_present` and `#wait_until_present` entirely to minimize this
confusion.
On Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 2:22:00 PM UTC-7, NaviHan wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot Titus and Rajagopalan.
>
> I want to wrap this up with one more question about wait_while_present.
> Had this confusion while reading Titus's article on Watir waits (
> http://watir.com/guides/waiting/)
>
> you have this element, <div class="here">Foo</div> and you locate it with
> code "element = browser.div(class: "here")"
>
> Some dynamic event caused the element class to change: "<div
> class="not-here">Foo</div>"
>
> In this case we want the element to be looked up from scratch during the
> polling, which is what this does:
>
> element.wait_while_present
>
> But my question is becasue the class of the element has changed to
> "not-here" how the wait_while_present is going to work, basically the
> identifier has changed?
>
> Or did you mean that the class has changed from "here" to "not-here" and
> again it changed back to "here" ??
>
> 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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