Reputation: 123
I just want to test my iOS UI with UI Automation but I got stuck when it comes to enter text into UITextFields. The documentation says that the method "setValue(...)" should do the trick but it doesn't.
I always get this error:
Script threw an uncaught JavaScript error: Unexpected error in -[UIATextField_0x9952690 setValue:], /SourceCache/UIAutomation_Sim/UIAutomation-271/Framework/UIAElement.m line 1142, kAXErrorSuccess on line 15 of login.js, #0 setValue()
The code looks like this:
var textfields = UIATarget.localTarget().frontMostApp().mainWindow().textFields();
username = textfields["username"];
username.setValue("test");
The username field is not null or undefined.
My second solution was this JS project: https://github.com/alexvollmer/tuneup_js#readme It has a "typeString" method for text fields but it is a little bit buggy and fails when it comes to enter numbers and capital letters.
I'm working with iOS6.1, Instruments Version 4.6 (46000), Xcode Version 4.6 (4H127).
Any help is appreciated!
Upvotes: 6
Views: 4462
Reputation: 38025
I came here struggling to understand how UI Automation scripting works, as the documentation and example code out there is really lacking (or written from a very specific point of view that doesn't explain all cases).
Here are two things on the subject I learned:
setValue()
.accessibilityIdentifier
would allow me to simply look up the element with that identifier like HTML's getElementById
. But it is not like this at all. You have to dig through your hierarchy level by level, even when using an accessibilityIdentifier. Luckily you can use UIAElement.logElementTree()
to get some clues as to the correct hierarchy to use.So far I am NOT at all impressed with this framework, but I am ever so slowly making progress.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 223
Check if below works for you,
target.delay(1); UIATarget.localTarget().frontMostApp().mainWindow().textFields()["username"].tap(); target.delay(1); UIATarget.localTarget().frontMostApp().mainWindow().textFields()["username"].setValue("test");
Check for correct hierarchy if it does not work for you..
Upvotes: 10