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Nicole Phillips
Nicole Phillips

Reputation: 763

save an attribute value to a variable

I need to save an attribute value to a variable to be sent to a later object to verify a picture I upload which gets a unique src id is accessible using the src attribute I obtain. Later a search through a list of pictures will be done to find that particular uploaded picture.

getPictureSrc: function() {
    var el = $('img');
    var uniqueId = el.getAttribute('src');
    return uniqueId;
  },
  findPicture: function() {
    browser.get('a different webpage then the upload page');
    var findPic = getPictureSrc();
    var allPics = $$('img');
    helper.expectedConditions.isVisible(allPics.$(findPics));
  },

However when I run this code, I do a console.log() and it throws back the list of available commands. Not the source. However if I do an expect against some random value the src does show. So I guess there are two questions, how do I print an attribute value to console and how do I pass an attribute value from object to object. Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 213

Answers (1)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 473873

However when I run this code, I do a console.log() and it throws back the list of available commands.

getPictureSrc() returns a promise. A promise is what you see printed on the console. If you need the actual value, resolve the promise explicitly:

getPictureSrc().then(function (src) {
    console.log(src);
});

However if I do an expect against some random value the src does show.

This is the magic of the expect() - it is patched (by jasminewd package) to implicitly resolve promises before making an expectation. Having expect() accepting promises is quite convenient.

Upvotes: 2

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