Allow only hash locators when searching for elements
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Key: WTR-437
URL: http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-437
Project: Watir
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Other
Affects Versions: 2.0
Environment: any
Reporter: Jarmo Pertman
So, text_field(:id, 'sfdsa') is not allowed anymore. Why?
Well, it's again to have less syntax for finding elements and you can
use only hash when using multiple identifiers anyway.
Especially newcomers might get confused if at one place they read
text_field(:id => 'sfdsa') and other place comma
is used.
This is actually a 3 step improvement:
1) Remove all usages of comma in tutorials/documentation/examples at Watir
websites and Watir code.
2) Having backwards incompatibilities in mind i recommend to just
deprecate it in Watir 2.0 and remove completely in some newer version.
What if we issue Kernel.warn for every comma usage and show some
message when executing b.text_field(:id, "blah"):
***
Using 2 parameters as a element locator is DEPRECATED! Use at
c:/projects/project/spec/some_file_spec.rb:45 this instead:
text_field(:id => "blah")
***
It might get messy at first if comma notation is used a lot, but it
gives a possibility to clean things up and even to create some script
which would analyze this log and do it for you automatically.
3) Remove support for comma syntax completely in some newer version
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