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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 3575

How to get GWT textbox value from selenium webdriver?

I'm trying to test my GWT application using selenium, the html generated by GWT Textbox is shown as below:

<input type="text" class="gwt-TextBox" >

No value there, but from UI i can see the text, Is there a way to get the value from selenium?

UPDATE: I can locate the input from selenium, but can not get its value, for example the value of above input is "blahblah...", which i can see from page UI, but can't get from the above html.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2298

Answers (4)

spg
spg

Reputation: 9837

If you want the resulting DOM to look like

<input type="text" class="gwt-TextBox" value="myValue">

you'll have to use 

textBox.getElement().setAttribute("value", "myValue");

instead of

textBox.setText("myValue")

That's because setText will only update the value property (i.e. theDomElement.value = "myValue"), which will not update the value attribute (i.e. <input value="myValue"/>).

When updating a property, the browser will not update the associated attribute.

Upvotes: 0

chenmingi
chenmingi

Reputation: 66

Like @BMT said, you should get the value using getAttribute, like this

GWT Code

TextBox textField = new TextBox(); 
textField.ensureDebugId("textFieldId");

Selenium Code

driver.findElement(By.id("textFieldId")).getAttribute("value");

You could see all the properties (visible or invisible) of one element using Inspect Element Tool of browsers (F12), then get the value you want.

Upvotes: 1

Ross Patterson
Ross Patterson

Reputation: 9570

@Bhumika is correct, having a unique id attribute for every element you would want to manipulate is good programming practice. But if you don't have that and can't get it added, you still have a good handle on this particular case: the placeholder attribute. To locate the element, use the XPath //input[@placeholder='Input note title...']. To obtain the value of the field, get its value attribute.

Upvotes: 1

bNd
bNd

Reputation: 7630

Each widget should have a id for selenium testing. Here selenium does not identify element, and you are not able to get value which are on UI. so you have to set id for input widget. i.e

TextBox textField= new TextBox();    
textField.getElement().setId("name");

Upvotes: 0

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