I know how to verify if a specific text is present in a web page using Selenium IDE. But what I wanted to know is, can you verify that any text is present in an element?
For example there's a text box with the title "Top Champion". This text box will be changed daily with the name of a person. Now I just wanted to check whether there is a text in this text box, no matter what the text actually is. I've tried the verify text command and tried blanking the value, but it doesn't work. If the command can return a true or false command that would be really helpful
BTW, verify value doesn't work either since the element that I'm testing is not a form field
Your best bet is as follows (I have written single tests for this for numbers)
Medium rigour:
waitForText | css=.SELECTORS | regex:.+?
This will wait until there is at least 1 character present.
Strong rigour (only works if you have a subset of characters present):
waitForText | css=.SELECTORS | regex:^[0-9]+$
This will wait until there is text. This text must start with a number, have at least 1 number, and then finish. It does not permit any character outside of the subset given. An example you could do to match numbersNAMEnumbers would be.
waitForText | css=.SELECTORS | regex:^[0-9]+[a-zA-Z]+[0-9]+$
This would wait for a string such as 253432234BobbySmith332
Luke
If i have understood your question properly there below is one way you can search for an element contains a string. Not sure if this is what you are looking.
List<WebElement> findElement = webElement.findElements(By.xpath("YOUR_TEXTINPUT_PATH_HERE"));
if( findElement.size() > 0 ){
if( findElement.get(0).getText() != null && findElement.get(0).getText().indexOf("THE_STRING_THAT_YOU_WANT_TO SEARCH") != -1 ) {
// IF IT COMES HERE, THAT MEANS THE ELEMENT IS PRESENT WITH THE TEXT
}
}
store text|[your element]|StoredText
execute script|return ${StoredText}.length > 0|x
assert|x|true
Using these three lines in the Selenium IDE, the first line will extract the text from the element into the variable StoredText.
The second line will store whether the length of that text is greater than zero into the variable x (a true or false result).
The third line asserts that the result was true, failing the test if not. You don't need the third line if all you want is the true or false result.
So if the element contains any text, the extracted text length will be greater than zero, the variable x will be true, and the assert will pass. This verifies that any text is present in the element.
Related
How do I print a conditional field using PPFA code. When a value is an 'X' then I'd like to print it. However, if the 'X' is not present then I'd like to print an image. Here is my code:
LAYOUT C'mylayout' BODY
POSITION .25 in ABSOLUTE .25 in
FONT TIMES
OVERLAY MYTEMPOVER 8.5 in 11.0 in;
FIELD START 1 LENGTH 60
POSITION 2.0 in 1.6 in;
Where it has FIELD START 1 LENGTH 60 that will print the given text at that location. But based on the value I want to print either the given text or an image. How would I do that?
Here is an answer from the AFP-L list:
I would create two PAGEFORMATS, one with LAYOUT for TEXT and one with LAYOUT for IMAGE. With CONDITION you can jump between the Pageformats (where Copygroup is always 'NULL')
If you work in a z/OS environment, be careful of 'JES Blanc Truncation'.
That means in one sentence:
if there is a X in the data, condition is true
if there is nothing in the data, condition doesn't work and is always wrong (nothing happens)
In this case you must create a Condition which is always true. I call it a Dummy-Condition.
PPFA sample syntax:
CONDITION TEST start 1 length 1
when eq 'X' NULL PAGEFORMAT PRTTXT
when ge x'00' NULL PAGEFORMAT PRTIMAGE;
You must copy this CONDITION into both PAGEFORMATS after LAYOUT command.
Blanc truncation is a difficult problem on z/OS.
In this sample, the PAGEFORMAT named PRTTXT contains all the formatting and printing directives when the condition is true, and the other called PRTIMAGE contains every directive needed to print the image.
HTH
I have gathered obligatory data from the scopus website. my outputs have been saved in a list named "document". when I use type method for each element of this list, the python returns me this class:
"<class'selenium.webdriver.firefox.webelement.FirefoxWebElement'>"
In continius in order to solve this issue, I have used text method such this:
document=driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('td')
for i in document:
print i.text
So, I could see the result in text format. But, when I call each element of the list independently, white space is printed in this code:
x=[]
for i in document:
x.append(i.text)
print (x[2]) will return white space.
What should I do?
As you have used the following line of code :
document=driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('td')
and see the output on Console as :
"<class'selenium.webdriver.firefox.webelement.FirefoxWebElement'>"
This is the expected behavior as Selenium prints the reference of the Nodes matching your search criteria.
As per your Code Attempt to print the text leaving out the white spaces you can use the following code block :
x=[]
document = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('td')
for i in document :
if (i.get_attribute("innerHTML") != "null") :
x.append(i.get_attribute("innerHTML"))
print(x[2])
My code was correct. But, the selected elements for displaying were space. By select another element, the result was shown.
In BASH
I run the following one liner to get an individual column/field after splitting on a given character (one can use AWK as well if they want to split on more than one char i.e. on a word in any order, ok).
#This will give me first column i.e. 'lori' i.e. first column/field/value after splitting the line / string on a character '-' here
echo "lori-chuck-shenzi" | cut -d'-' -f1
# This will give me 'chuck'
echo "lori-chuck-shenzi" | cut -d'-' -f2
# This will give me 'shenzi'
echo "lori-chuck-shenzi" | cut -d'-' -f3
# This will give me 'chuck-shenzi' i.e. all columns after 2nd and onwards.
echo "lori-chuck-shenzi" | cut -d'-' -f2-
Notice the last command above, How can I do the same last cut command shit in Groovy?
For ex: if the contents are in a file and they look like:
1 - a
2 - b
3 - c
4 - d
5 - e
6 - lori-chuck shenzi
7 - columnValue1-columnValue2-columnValue3-ColumnValue4
I tried the following Groovy code, but it's not giving me lori-chuck shenzi (i.e. after ignoring the 6th bullet and first occurence of the -, I want my output to be lori-chuck shenzi and the following script is returning me just lori (which is givning me the correct output as my index is [1] in the following code, so I know that).
def file = "/path/to/my/file.txt"
File textfile= new File(file)
//now read each line from the file (using the file handle we created above)
textfile.eachLine { line ->
//list.add(line.split('-')[1])
println "Bullet entry full value is: " + line.split('-')[1]
}
// return list
Also, is there an easy way for the last line in the file above, if I can use Groovy code to change the order of the columns after they are split i.e. reverse the order like we do in Python [1:], [:1], [:-1] etc.. or in some fashion
I don't like this solution but I did this to get it working. After getting index values from [1..-1 (i.e. from 1st index, excluding the 0th index which is the left hand side of first occurrence of - character), I had to remove the [ and ] (LIST) using join(',') and then replacing any , with a - to get the final result what I was looking for.
list.add(line.split('-')[1..-1].join(',').replaceAll(',','-'))
I would still like to know what's a better solution and how can this work when we talk about cherry picking individual columns + in a given order (instead of me writing various Groovy statements to pick individual elements from the string/list per statement).
If I'm understanding your question correctly, what you want is:
line.split('-')[1..-1]
This will give you from position 1 to the last. You can do -2 (next to last) and so on, but just be aware that you can get an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException moving backwards too, if you go past the beginning of your array!
-- Original answer is above this line --
Adding to my answer, since comments don't allow code formatting. If all you want is to pick specific columns, and you want a string in the end, you could do something like:
def resultList = line.split('-')
def resultString = "${resultList[1]}-${resultList[2]} ${resultList[3]}"
and pick whatever columns you want that way. I thought you were looking for a more generic solution, but if not, specific columns are easy!
If you want the first value, a dash, then the rest joined by spaces, just use:
"${resultList[1]}-${resultList[2..-1].join(" ")}"
I don't know how to give you specific answers for every combination you might want, but basically once you have your values in a list, you can manipulate that however you want, and turn the results back into a string with GStrings or with .join(...).
If have been cracking my head over this for a week now:
We have an assignment, where we have 2 options in our program, with option 1, the program asks for a name and a date, and then it generates an email addressed to the give name, with that date.
The second option, we have to paste text in to program, and it will tell us if the 'template' from option 1 is used or not, and it gives you the name, and date.
my question is now: how do I compare the given string, with the manual input string and make that name, and date (could be 2nd of oktober, could be 10/02, could be sunday the 2nd, basically anything that isn't the same as the template) and still make it say the template matches?
I thought: cutting the strings up, comparing them, word for word, but then what? and how?
Since I do not know what language you are programming in, I will give you some examples of what you ask in the languages I know.
Python(2.7):
x = raw_input('Manual String') // get user input, this can be replaced
y = 'this is a string: '+ str(x) // use Str incase of a number or other format of x.
if(y == 'this is a string: doubleo'):
print "The strings are equal!"
C:
use this page:
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ansi_c/c_strcmp.htm
I have a portion of HTML that looks similar to:
<table><tbody><tr>
<td><div> Text Goes Here </div></td>
<td> ... rest of table
There are no IDs, no Titles, no descriptors of any kind to easily identify the div that contains the text.
When an error occurs on the page, the error is inserted into the location where "Text Goes Here" is at (no text is present unless an error occurs). Each error contains the word "valid".
Examples: "The form must contain a valid name" or "Invalid date range selected"
I currently have the Watir code looking like this:
if browser.frame(:index => 0).text.includes? "valid"
msg = # need to get full text of message
return msg
else
return true
end
Is there any way to get the full text in a situation like this?
Basically: return the full text of the element that contains the text "valid" ?
Using: Watir 2.0.4 , Webdriver 0.4.1
Given the structure you provided, since divs are so often used I would be inclined to look for the table cell using a regular expression as Dave shows in his answer. Unless you have a lot of nested tables, it is more likely to return just the text you want.
Also if 'valid' may appear elsewhere then you might want to provide a slightly larger sample of the text to look for
. browser(:cell => /valid/).text
Try this
return browser.div(:text => /valid/).text
or
return browser.table.div(:text => /valid/).text
if the valid is not found, it should return nil.