#selenium

i don't know the difference. i would probably use the official selenium project javascript binding of webdriver

Sauce Labs tends to recommend WebDriverIO since it is easier for testers to use out of the box and has a more synchronous approach to writing tests.

titusfortner-sl who writes webdriverIO

@christian-bromann (who also works at Sauce Labs)

so it's not an official selenium binding?

no, it isn't maintained inside the official selenium repo

thanks for clarifying

though it has been around about as long

am looking for an information on the possible option to connect to citrix and automation applications in Citrix with Selenium

can anyone share any possible ideas please

In selenium, I want to click to open a menu, and then click a button in the menu to run some javascript. browser.implicitly_wait(10) isnt working. why wouldnt implicitly_wait work for this?

Is there another way to wait until the JS object exists and then run it?

typically you want to use an explicit wait strategy instead of an implicit wait strategy since it is more flexible.

I'm not sure what the syntax looks like in javascript

titusfortner-sl: im using python. Trying it with explicit waits I get a timeout on browser.get https://dpaste.de/gp5X

that's a weird thing to do

the tag html will never go stale, so to speak

energizer okay so each URL has a thing you want to download?

or save

but each page looks the same more or less

dude-x: yes

that context manager kind of makes sense what you did there.

its from http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/how-to-get-se...

energizer do you have full urls? like it starts with http(s)://

you shouldn't get a timeout with driver.get

yeah http

are you getting a Timeout error on waiting for staleness?

dude-x: yeah, watching the browser it never goes to the next page

does it at least open the first page?

ya

show me the stacktrace

your code should work in theory

so it loads the first page, clicks save, and then goes on to the next URL where it times out?

energizer ^

dude-x: ya never leaves that page

after saving

so the click succeeds the first time?

can i see the two of the real URLs?

are you sure it's a brand new web page?

i cant share the urls, but they are different

does it look http://example.com/pic.html#blah

and the blah's differ?

http://example.com/stuff?val=123&;

and the 123s differ

the pages are all exactly the same tho, just with different file in the download

i wonder if i could use `is` instead of `==`

for?

it's quite possible that the page isn't changing itself because it's cached but it's only changing the resource

so in that case

I wouldn't use that context manager per se

(nm re `==`, that was from an earlier version before i had staleness_of)

you can wait for url to equal the new url

driver.current_url == 'image_page_url' or <url snippet> in driver.current_url

instead of staleness_of, right?

yeah

i suspect the page itself is not updating due to caching

so probably i want browser.current_url != old_page.url

there's an image site i look at that has the latest memes or whatever; if i hit refresh and there's no new content. nothing gets reloaded

and when there is new content, i only see a partial update of the page

times out on browser.get again https://dpaste.de/1m3M

dude-x:

line 6 should be lambda b: b.current_url != old_url

wouldnt think that'd make a difference, its the same object, no?

ya no difference

well let's try the simplest case

don't use the context manager

add a time.sleep(2) before a browser.get

i can replace the context manager with time.sleep(3) and it works fine

okay.

don't know why html is not going stale ...

ill try running it manually in ipython

or why current url doesn't change.

do you see the URL changing?

sometimes sites rewrite the URL

that `==` is False

when i run it manually, one line at a time

oh that makes sense.

you want it to be equal to true.

browser.current_url != old_url

but isn't that what you had last time?

oh

so the current url and the so called old url don't match?

this result is inconsistent with the failure from before

right

so they should be the same URL?

after the page changes, which it does when using time.sleep or manual stepping, the url changes too

so the initial url you go to, changes again anyway?

well the string old_url doesnt change once assigned

so another technique is to tag a page

whats that

using execute_script(), you set an attribute to HTML

and then hopefully it'll go away

but i dont see how it would if inside the program html isnt changing and current_url isnt changing,

then wait for that element to go away like WebDriverWait(browser, timeout).until(element_disappears('css selector', 'html[mytag]')

then tag the image itself if the page is remaining constnat

i dont know how to get the image

the download button runs js

you can still inspect the lement and look for an img tag

not there

just add an attribute to the image tag

oh rght javascript is obscuring it

is there some thing on the page that gets updated and it's not obscured by javascript

i dont think so

browser.execute_script(f"arguments[0].setAttribute('tag', {uuid.uuid()}", html_element)

dude-x: like that?

i guess that works

yeah

it doesn't have to be a uuid

browser.execute_script( f"arguments[0].setAttribute('tag', {uuid.uuid1()}", html_element

)