TagNameGetCollection in WebDriver

[PnD]

Dear all,

I have successfully written a script to read a certain email with a specific matched title with IE without any problem at all.  Below is an example that I can be able to read only email with Title "Main Server Room"

Local $oTitle = _IETagNameGetCollection($body, "div")
    For $title in $oTitle
    If StringInStr(($title.title),"Main Server Room") > 0 Then
        
        _IEAction($title, "focus")
        _IEAction($title, "click")
    EndIf
    Next

I have read all over the WebDriver wiki page and could not be able to find anything similar to the function _IETagNameGetCollection. Do you have any suggestion that I can achieve the same goal with WebDriver on either Firefox or Chrome.  Your feedback is much appreciated.

[Danp2]

You should be able to use _WD_FindElement with the correct selector to locate the desired element(s). Can the target email appear more than once in the webpage?

[PnD]

Hi Danp2,

Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly. The email appears to be more than once and that's why the loop is very helpful.

I did try the _WD_FindElement but the xpath only show  //div[@id='row:7:294307'] and this row is dynamic depending on how many email I have in my inbox and I cannot use it for this purpose. The best way for me is to rely on the title.

For example, If i search my email for "Main Server Room", the result that I get will be 5 email, with the loop above, I can easily read all 5 of them.

[Danp2]

Ok... How about something like this?

$aElements = _WD_FindElement($sSession, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//div[[contains(text(),'Main Server Room')]]", Default, True)
    _ArrayDisplay($aElements, "Found Elements")

Once you have the array of elements, you can loop through and process each one.

[PnD]

hi Danp2,

Sorry for the late response. I followed your suggestion but it seems the selector is invalid as showed in logs below

__WD_Post: URL=HTTP://127.0.0.1:4444/session/4fe91fb8-0cc3-4c06-83b2-2ef5f9eeb560/element; $sData={"using":"xpath","value":"//input[@id='messageSearch']"}
__WD_Post: StatusCode=200; ResponseText={"value":{"element-6066-11e4-a52e-4f735466cecf":"18d995e0-d284-4f4c-b162-88ef5788959d"}}...
_WD_FindElement: {"value":{"element-6066-11e4-a52e-4f735466cecf":"18d995e0-d284-4f4c-b162-88ef5788959d"}}
__WD_Post: URL=HTTP://127.0.0.1:4444/session/4fe91fb8-0cc3-4c06-83b2-2ef5f9eeb560/element; $sData={"using":"xpath","value":"//i[@class='icon-search pointer-cursor']"}
__WD_Post: StatusCode=200; ResponseText={"value":{"element-6066-11e4-a52e-4f735466cecf":"bf2690c6-7701-4a29-8214-8945d995c783"}}...
_WD_FindElement: {"value":{"element-6066-11e4-a52e-4f735466cecf":"bf2690c6-7701-4a29-8214-8945d995c783"}}
__WD_Post: URL=HTTP://127.0.0.1:4444/session/4fe91fb8-0cc3-4c06-83b2-2ef5f9eeb560/element/18d995e0-d284-4f4c-b162-88ef5788959d/clear; $sData={"id":"18d995e0-d284-4f4c-b162-88ef5788959d"}
__WD_Post: StatusCode=200; ResponseText={"value":null}...
_WD_ElementAction: {"value":null}...
__WD_Post: URL=HTTP://127.0.0.1:4444/session/4fe91fb8-0cc3-4c06-83b2-2ef5f9eeb560/element/18d995e0-d284-4f4c-b162-88ef5788959d/value; $sData={"id":"18d995e0-d284-4f4c-b162-88ef5788959d", "text":"Main Server Room"}
__WD_Post: StatusCode=200; ResponseText={"value":null}...
_WD_ElementAction: {"value":null}...
__WD_Post: URL=HTTP://127.0.0.1:4444/session/4fe91fb8-0cc3-4c06-83b2-2ef5f9eeb560/element/bf2690c6-7701-4a29-8214-8945d995c783/click; $sData={"id":"bf2690c6-7701-4a29-8214-8945d995c783"}
__WD_Post: StatusCode=200; ResponseText={"value":null}...
_WD_ElementAction: {"value":null}...
__WD_Post: URL=HTTP://127.0.0.1:4444/session/4fe91fb8-0cc3-4c06-83b2-2ef5f9eeb560/execute/sync; $sData={"script":"return document.body.innerText;", "args":[{}]}
__WD_Post: StatusCode=200; ResponseText={"value":" Sanjose   \n\nEMAIL\n\nCALENDAR\n\nCONTACTS\n\nTASKS\n\nNOTES\n\nDOCS\n\nVOICE\n\n New Em...
_WD_ExecuteScript: {"value":" Sanjose   \n\nEMAIL\n\nCALENDAR\n\nCONTACTS\n\nTASKS\n\nNOTES\n\nDOCS\n\nVOICE\n\n New Em...
__WD_Post: URL=HTTP://127.0.0.1:4444/session/4fe91fb8-0cc3-4c06-83b2-2ef5f9eeb560/elements; $sData={"using":"xpath","value":"//div[contains(text(),'Main Server Room']"}
__WD_Post: StatusCode=400; ResponseText={"value":{"error":"invalid selector","message":"Given xpath expression \"//div[contains(text(),'Main...
__WD_Post ==> Webdriver Exception: {"value":{"error":"invalid selector","message":"Given xpath expression \"//div[contains(text(),'Main Server Room']\" is invalid: SyntaxError: The expression is not a legal expression.","stacktrace":"WebDriverError@chrome://marionette/content/error.js:181:5\nInvalidSelectorError@chrome://marionette/content/error.js:341:5\nfind_@chrome://marionette/content/element.js:334:11\nelement.find/</findElements<@chrome://marionette/content/element.js:288:24\nevalFn@chrome://marionette/content/sync.js:136:7\nPollPromise/<@chrome://marionette/content/sync.js:156:5\nPollPromise@chrome://marionette/content/sync.js:127:10\nelement.find/<@chrome://marionette/content/element.js:286:24\nelement.find@chrome://marionette/content/element.js:285:10\nfindElements@chrome://marionette/content/actors/MarionetteCommandsChild.jsm:241:20\nreceiveMessage@chrome://marionette/content/actors/MarionetteCommandsChild.jsm:94:31\n"}}
_WD_FindElement: {"value":{"error":"invalid selector","message":"Given xpath expression \"//div[contains(text(),'Main Server Room']\" is invalid: SyntaxError: The expression is not a legal expression.","stacktrace":"WebDriverError@chrome://marionette/content/error.js:181:5\nInvalidSelectorError@chrome://marionette/content/error.js:341:5\nfind_@chrome://marionette/content/element.js:334:11\nelement.find/</findElements<@chrome://marionette/content/element.js:288:24\nevalFn@chrome://marionette/content/sync.js:136:7\nPollPromise/<@chrome://marionette/content/sync.js:156:5\nPollPromise@chrome://marionette/content/sync.js:127:10\nelement.find/<@chrome://marionette/content/element.js:286:24\nelement.find@chrome://marionette/content/element.js:285:10\nfindElements@chrome://marionette/content/actors/MarionetteCommandsChild.jsm:241:20\nreceiveMessage@chrome://marionette/content/actors/MarionetteCommandsChild.jsm:94:31\n"}}
_WD_FindElement ==> Webdriver Exception: HTTP status = 400
+>14:35:41 AutoIt3.exe ended.rc:0
+>14:35:41 AutoIt3Wrapper Finished.
>Exit code: 0    Time: 21.26

Originally, it was

 $aElements = _WD_FindElement($sSession, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//div[[contains(text(),'Main Server Room')]]", Default, True)
 
 and 
 
 I changed it to 
 
  $aElements = _WD_FindElement($sSession, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//div[contains(text(),'Main Server Room')]", Default, True)
  
  and it's still invalid.

Here is my script as well

$inbox = _WD_FindElement($oFF, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//input[@id='messageSearch']")
     $click = _WD_FindElement($oFF, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//i[@class='icon-search pointer-cursor']")
     $PO = "Main Server Room"

    _WD_ElementAction($oFF, $inbox,'Clear')

    _WD_ElementAction($oFF, $inbox, 'value',$PO)

    _WD_ElementAction($oFF, $click, 'Click')
    Sleep(2000)

    $getBody= _WD_ExecuteScript($oFF,"return document.body.innerText;", '{}')
    ;MsgBox(0,0,$getBody)
    If StringInStr($getBody,$PO) > 0 Then
        ;msgbox(0,0,"Look Ok")

        $aElements = _WD_FindElement($oFF, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//div[contains(text(),'Main Server Room']", Default, True)
        _ArrayDisplay($aElements)
    EndIf

Also, I would like to ask that when you used the function text(), would that work if the subject contains at least this term "Main Server Room" . For example:

 

Subjects of Email returned from the search result for "Main Server Room", may be:

1. This is the Main Server Room

2. Main Server Room Temperature

3. The Main Server Room is too hot

4. Main Server Room 

and so on.... 

and $aElements will be showing off in the Array for as many times as "Main Server Room" is detected. 

[Danp2]

Right. the double brackets was a copy / paste issue on my part. Not sure why the xpath isn't working TBH. Maybe text() isn't valid with a Div. Try changing it to this --

$aElements = _WD_FindElement($oFF, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//div[contains(.,'Main Server Room']", Default, True)

If that works, then you should be able to find the answer to your other question.

[PnD]

Hi Danp2,

Thank you for your quick fix. 

Your suggested code return invalid selector again  , so I changed it to 

$aElements = _WD_FindElement($oFF, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//div[contains(.,'Main Server Room')]", Default, True)

This works right away. However, the result (showing 18 $aElements instead of 3) seems to be incorrect as from my search result, I only have three emails, and actually those are the only three email that have the subject containing "Main Server Room" I have in my inbox as well.

Do you have any idea what may cause this issue?

[PnD]

hahah, I think your first solution works. It just missed a bracket at the end of 'Main Server Room' 

So this works beautifully

$aElements = _WD_FindElement($oFF, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//div[contains(text(),'Main Server Room')]", Default, True)

Once again, thank you so much for your kind help.

 

Edited June 18, 2021 by PnD

[Danp2]

Try this instead --

$aElements = _WD_FindElement($oFF, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//div[contains(@title,'Main Server Room')]", Default, True)

Formatting should be good cause I just modified your version. 😄

[PnD]

4 minutes ago, Danp2 said:

Try this instead --

$aElements = _WD_FindElement($oFF, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//div[contains(@title,'Main Server Room')]", Default, True)

Formatting should be good cause I just modified your version. 😄

and 

$aElements = _WD_FindElement($oFF, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//div[contains(text(),'Main Server Room')]", Default, True)

works beautifully as well. Thank you so much Dan!

[PnD]

Hi Danp2,

I ran into a little issue when parsing a variable inside these codes

"//div[contains(text(),$PO)]" or 

"//div[contains(@title,$PO)]" or

 

"//div[contains(@title,"$PO")]" or

"//div[contains(text(),"$PO")]" 

and they are all returned error: syntax error

would you please give me some idea how  to fix this.?

$PO= "Main Server Room"

[Danp2]

You need to build the string by concatenating the variable --

$aElements = _WD_FindElement($oFF, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//div[contains(@title,'" & $PO & "')]", Default, True)

Untested, but you should get the idea from the above.

[PnD]

57 minutes ago, Danp2 said:

You need to build the string by concatenating the variable --

$aElements = _WD_FindElement($oFF, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//div[contains(@title,'" & $PO & "')]", Default, True)

Untested, but you should get the idea from the above.

Thank you Dan! This works perfectly.