#selenium

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Hey guys. Getting null when attempting to find aWebElement. Tried with Xpath and Css path (both copied from Chrome -> Inspect Element). It's a text field (numeric value) I'm trying to read. What can I do?

My (java code is):

By firstItemPriceAfterDiscount = By.xpath("//*[@id=\"dgrid_10-row-0\"]/table/tr/td[5]/input”);

WebElement price = driver.findElement(firstItemPriceAfterDiscount);

String priceTxt = price.getText();

Float priceVal = Float.parseFloat(priceTxt.replaceAll("\\D", ""))/100;

simonstewart: I see things got a little more exciting last night with your work

Indeed.

Can't have a quiet life

simonstewart not in it indrustry

It's working the first time, and then after the page changes a bit (the xPath is the same!) I'm getting null again, still the same xpath although the page is a bit different in the second time

industry*

may be u can find element with xpath contains or start-with

the thing is

it is finding it the first time

.//input[contains(class,'sbsb_a')]/a

and the second time, i check and see that the xpath is the same but it fails

try with id

or something else

i'm getting an ElementNotFoundException

$x("//input[@value='Google Search']")

i'm not food in automation but if u was you, i'll try with id class another xpath

qwebirc6785, _Milencho, fyi when you're using contains() in xpath, you need to use @class, @id and not just class or id

so contains(@class, 'someclass')

simonstewart: how many make up "engineering productivity" at FB?

Here in London? Or globally?

globally

simonstewart: watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsHK81MTHI and it made me curious

g'day everyone@

hey AutomatedTester, if you're about, you'll be happy to know that I have basic communication with marionette working in .NET.

hey jim

G'day, jimevans

hellos, i have a question.. when i do .sendkeys i send keys, ok, but it keeps the old text there, i know i can use .clear but I'm wondering if i can .sendkeys_before or something

i want to add something BEFORE the existing text, not after (like .sendkeys does)

[13selenium] 15lukeis closed pull request #1037: Fix the problem with adding of plugin into firefox profile. We tried … (06master...06bug_add_extension) 02http://git.io/vZHCf

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Porfa: you'll need to grab the text, store it in a variable, then call clear() and enter your text in the way you want it

WhereIsMySpoon: i was doing it like that, hmm just really wondering if you could send keys to the start of the dialog you're messing with

thank you

no

there is no special method for that

Porfa: could you send the "home" key?

or spam the left arrow key until you're sure you've made it to the beginning?

nice tip sohlemac! I'm pretty sure i just to slam it 50 times because that's the text limit to that field :p

that is, if the home key can't be sent by any strange reason

Porfa, sohlemac im not sure sending the home key will work

you'd need to make sure u click inside the text field first

This is good music to do tedious, repetitive, frustrating debugging to: https://open.spotify.com/album/1XdpKifugaz7auUg...

Hi guys, I use Selenium Grid 2 and like to get the browser console logs from my RemoteWebDriver like so driver.get("http://testpage.com"); LogEntries logEntries = driver.manage().logs().get(LogType.BROWSER); however the logEntries list is empty!

would be great if someone could give me a hint :)

pmichelberger: for all browsers? or just some? the IE driver, for example, doesn't implement any of the logging api, full stop.

chrome would be enough

anyone know how a CharSequence in the java language bindings are serialized to json for transmission across the wire?

titusfortner: note from AutomatedTester about 3 hours ago: I am guessing that specificationLevel is missing. see http://w3c.github.io/webdriver/webdriver-spec.h...

lukeis: what port did you say I should be using Marionette with?

titusfortner: you should specify the port when you launch it :) (but the default appeared to be 4444)