Is it possible to get values of some of the attributes of an element at webview?

[proximilian]

Hi Guys,

My use case is the following:
In a webview I have the resource-id of a web element that I can use as a Selector to interact with it thanks to the great native feature of Patrol. But, however, I want to get the text attribute that it has. The text is not visible on the screen. In my particular case the web element is a QR code picture which text attribute I want to get as a String. Is that possible? And in general, can we get any attribute of a web element by having a selector?
Here is a screenshot from the inspector in order to be more clear:

[bartekpacia]

Hi @proximilian – thanks for creating this Discussion.

This is not possible currently, but it seems like we should have it.

Pinging @mateuszwojtczak and @jBorkowska (other members of Patrol core team) to voice their opinions on this and how they think about it.

[bartekpacia]

Thinking about it now, you can try doing:

final views = await $.native.getNativeViews(Selector(resourceId: "resource-id"));
expect(views.length, equals(1)); // I understand that only one view with such resourceId exists
final view = views.first;
// now you can access properties of `view`

[proximilian]

Actually there is such a thing - you can use .text on a Patrol finder to get text of a widget (more info here). Check it out if you want.

Unfortunately it works only for Flutter widgets – not for native views :(

yes, yes. I gоt it. But it was useful to know it as I can use it in other cases in future. Now our use case is with native views.

[proximilian]

Thinking about it now, you can try doing:

final views = await $.native.getNativeViews(Selector(resourceId: "resource-id"));
expect(views.length, equals(1)); // I understand that only one view with such resourceId exists
final view = views.first;
// now you can access properties of `view`

To be honest in the beginning I was exactly wondering about that getNativeViews method. I'll try your suggestion as a workaround. Thank you.

[bartekpacia]

Let me know if this worked.

[proximilian]

I tried it on a button in a webwiew, but unfortunately it doesn't work. It seems that the getNativeViews method is returning no elements at the list for me since the test is failing at the expect statement -> ( Expected: <1> Actual: <0>). However in a new test run I tried to tap on the button using the same contentDesctription Selector as with the getNativeViews and it is tapped successfully. So the element can be found without problem. Btw I tried with contentDesctription (not with resourceId) but I think it doesn't matter at all.

[jBorkowska]

I like this idea, I'll add this to our backlog.

[proximilian]

Do I need to create a new feature-request issue or you will add it directly to the backlog?

[jBorkowska]

I will add it directly :)

[bartekpacia]

For the record, this is tracked in #1087