XPath OR support about appium HOT 13 CLOSED

This is a workaround however an empty hash is returned instead of the expected WebDriver element.

> a = $driver.execute_script "au.lookup('secure').concat(au.lookup('textfield'));"
post
session/c208210e-59b3-4e58-bbb1-47b6feb5cd38/execute
{"script":"au.lookup('secure').concat(au.lookup('textfield'));","args":[]}
=> [{}, {}]
> a.first.value
NoMethodError: undefined method `value' for {}:Hash
> a
=> [{}, {}]
> a.first
=> {}
> a.first.class
=> Hash

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This sort of works, however it doesn't let me combine lookups.

s = %(
var e = au.lookup('textfield');
au._returnElems(e);
)

execute_script s

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I figured it out.

s = %(
var t = au.lookup('textfield');
var s = au.lookup('secure');
var r = $(t.concat(s));
au._returnElems(r);
)

execute_script s

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This is what I had to do to get textfield working cross platform.

• appium/ruby_console@d68887d

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That's a clever workaround, however it would be nice to support | in the subset of xpath syntax. I'm confused why you didn't get a more meaningful error--you should have gotten something like "XPath selector could not be parsed" or something like that. That's the first thing to fix, then we can talk about adding |.

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That's a clever workaround, however it would be nice to support |

I agree. I just need something working immediately.

That's the first thing to fix, then we can talk about adding |.

👍 I was surprised that it crashed.

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It doesn't crash anymore now.

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Does it give a nice error?

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Does it give a nice error?

Yes. It's slightly different on iOS and Android.

Selenium::WebDriver::Error::XPathLookupError: Could not parse xpath data from //textfield | //secure vs
Selenium::WebDriver::Error::XPathLookupError: An error occurred while searching for an element by XPath.

Much better than crashing.

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I think it might be better to turn this into a feature request by adjusting the issue title.

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Is this closed by f78cee9 et al?

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Yes

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This thread has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity after it was closed. Please open a new issue for related bugs.

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