#selenium

anyone knows how to get the xpath from a webelement ?

Xat`: in general, you don't.

I have a table with some datas, I need to select all elements containing a pattern, then get its xpath

here is a part of my code : http://pastebin.com/TGNKb6NA

for what purpose? why do you need the xpath? you already have the elements, you don't need to find them again.

jimevans: I need to get a value corresponding to the current element I found

also, using xpath to parse the class attribute the way you are is incredibly fragile.

Xat`: i don't know what that means. "a value corresponding to the current element i found"

that doesn't mean anything to me.

maybe this is more clear : http://pastebin.com/jbkGm4Rx

you still don't need the xpath. give me a second.

of course

Xat`: https://gist.github.com/jimevans/ff4665c1a31b7e...

this is pretty cool, thank for this explaination

note also that i changed the initial find to find by css selector.

I didn't know about "browsing" like ./../td[x]

using xpath with '@class=' is brittle, because an element can have additional classes, and the classes can come in any order. using css selectors this way (which is exactly what they're intended for) is more robust.

(each term separated by whitespace is considered a 'class' of the element)

actually td_ap seems to be an 'unicode' object

okay, so you're adding the text to the list instead of the element to the list. whatever. just don't do that. add the element and go from there.

jimevans: aloha :) how was your holidays?

g'day!

very good.

excellent :)

about to leave again on thursday

oh? nice

where ya hopping to

yep. i'm getting on a boat and sailing the caribbean.

oooh

very nice

well, i'm not *actually* doing the sailing...

haha

i assumed cruise

with the mrs? :)

i figured i'd better specify. you never know with the crowd in this channel

lol

anyone know grid code well?

does the grid use a lock when establishing a session with a node?

well locks around communicating with an instance of the node

yep. drharmony and i are going. it's the only way i can get her to unplug and not respond to client crises - make sure she's unreachable.

jimevans: heh

sounds good. :)

thank I will find it out :)

some parts of the caribbean have crystal clear water; its amazing

you know every time someone says caribbean I think mediterranean

i dont know why

help

ok I solved the unicode problem by passing the webelement instead of string ;)

thank you again

np

seeing "David Hunt" do things at my work related to selenium… always crosses some wires in my brain ;)

lukeis: indeed.

you have a david hunt at salesforce?

yep

that is confusing! :)

what are people using that is causing their comments in github to strip out all periods? been noticing this happen more often..

haven't you heard, lukeis, periods are so last generation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of...

titusfortner_w: it's not the end of sentences that concerns me… it's seeing things like DesiredCapabilitiesfirefox();

heh

Can anyone answer a quick question?

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thanks

I am trying to install Selenium IDE on firefox, but the instructions for installing are not obvious or outdated. I downloaded the latest Selenium but I am not sure it is the IDE and there seems to be no link to Selenium IDE on the downloads page

Guest62264: :download and search for Selenium IDE… should link you to addons.mozilla.org

http://seleniumhq.org/download/ and http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/...

first link ^

for Selenium IDE, which file do I download? There are many.

Thanks Lukeis. That was so simple. Why does Selenium download page not have that link, and why does Selenium IDE not show up in FireFox Add-On possibilities when I search for it?

it does have that link

in the section called "Selenium IDE"

(where i copied it from ;) )

Ok, I now see that way down the page. This Installation doc page needs a serious update in that case: http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/02_selenium_ide...

update? or removal? ;)

screen by screen instructions for installing software are really annoying to update...

lukeis: is there any reason for us to not do a release tonight?

oh and happy festivus to you :D

AutomatedTester: i think we needed to check ci (there were a few failing tests) and i should really run the python suite through a windows box :)

and a happy festivus to you too!

people do python on Windows...\

lies

they report issues every so often even

hey guys

when upgrading firefox to 43 version, running selenium test cases using bat file don't work and we get an error indicates that it can’t find generatedTestSuite.html file

Firefox can't find the file at chrome://src/content/TestRunner.html?

we use Selenium Standalone Server 2.48.2

No More RC! :)

so there is bothing to solve the issue

??

i'm not sure… also i'm personally not going to look into it :)

zaza: generally, RC was deprecated few years ago...

yea i know that the 2.x selenium standalone server is a drop-in replacement for the old selenium rc server but it should be backwards compatible with existing infrastructure

right?

i get the error only when upgrading mozilla to the 43 version

hey, is there a way to intercept javascript errors, before the page executes any JS?