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Ragnarsson
Ragnarsson

Reputation: 1825

Appium iOS driver can't send keys to UIATextField

I am using Appium 1.4.13, java-client-3.3.0.jar, selenium standalone server 2.48.2 with IntelliJ.

I want to enter a value to UIATextField, which is a numberpicker. I read a tutorial and it suggested:

(MobileElement) iosDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//UIATextField")).sendKeys("abcdef");

but this didn't work: it just opened a native numberpicker from iOS

Another suggestion is to use setValue for java client 2.2.0:

(MobileElement) iosDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//UIATextField")).setValue("abcdef");

But setValue method is not there anymore.

So I have a workaround like below and it works:

(MobileElement) iosDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//UIATextField")).click;
iosDriver.scrollToExact("abcdef");
//click confirm

My questions:

Thanks

This is what I got from Appium Inspector when I run 

(MobileElement) iosDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//UIATextField")).sendKeys("170");

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 2857

Answers (3)

Saif Siddiqui
Saif Siddiqui

Reputation: 876

I am working on Xamrin app and Appium iOS driver was not able to send keys to UIATextField using @iOSXCUITFindBy.Though on Android same function was working fine.

I modified the function to first make a click and with this I was able to enter username and password in the webview.

public void enterUsername(String userName)

        {
            this.userName.click();
            this.userName.sendKeys(userName);
        }

Upvotes: 0

econoMichael
econoMichael

Reputation: 677

setValue changed to be only valid for IOSElement. Cast your element accordingly and it should work. Ex: (IOSElement) iosDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//UIATextField")).setValue("abcdef");

Source: https://github.com/appium/java-client/blob/master/src/main/java/io/appium/java_client/ios/IOSElement.java

Upvotes: 1

Naman
Naman

Reputation: 31878

Your initial code with appium 3.3.0 java-client should work just that your input is slight incorrect. A small note on that, a number picker has a regex defined to get an input of Integer type so you can better try sending it a numeral input. Try this, shall help : 

(MobileElement) iosDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//UIATextField")).sendKeys("12"); //sending an integer value

Upvotes: 0

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