Large DOM structure takes long time and sometimes crashed appium about appium HOT 4 CLOSED

This has been previously requested in #19758, but currently this does not seem possible. You can try to decrease the value of snapshotMaxDepth to reduce the chance of crashes, and/or use the mobile:source execute method to exclude attributes that you may find less relevant, which should also help.

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pageSourceExcludedAttributes in Settings API https://appium.github.io/appium-xcuitest-driver/latest/reference/settings/ also might help to get response with excludedAttributes in the mobile:source via general source endpoint

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@KazuCocoa I tried like this but still I can see the visible attribute in the element details

Am I doing any mistake here ?

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if the response had not included visible, it worked. If it still occurs with small size of snapshotMaxDepth as well, simply the entire element is large to build XML by WDA.
Apple does not provide the XML format natively so Appium/WDA build it by getting element tree recursively. If the element is huge, Appium/WDA will take more time (and if the entire memory usage will increase, it may crash). To limit the element size to get, snapshotMaxDepth would help. The excludedAttributes is to avoid some element calculation on WDA to build XML.

Not via appium inspector, but with format: description via https://appium.github.io/appium-xcuitest-driver/latest/reference/execute-methods/#mobile-source returns vanilla string format info by XCTest framework. It would also help to see available elements but it is not XML format like parsable in the inspector.

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