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Documentation error for desription of "Using webelement" #469
Description
The keyword documentation has:
Starting with version 1.7 of the Selenium2Library, one can pass an argument that contains a WebElement instead of a string locator. To get a WebElement, use the new Get WebElements keyword. For example:
${elem} = Get WebElements id=my_element
Click Element ${elem}
This can obviously not work, as Get WebElements returns a list. I think it should be
${elements} = Get WebElements id=my_element
Click Element ${elements}.first()
Or similar
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just-be-dev commentedon Jul 27, 2015
Ugh, yeah, you're right. We'd planned on adding a
Get WebElementkeyword that just returned a single item. That slipped through the cracks though.I'll look at rewording the documentation and possibly introducing that keyword.
just-be-dev commentedon Jul 28, 2015
Should I add
Get WebElementor just suggest people useGet WebElementscombined with@{list}[0]?just-be-dev commentedon Jul 28, 2015
@pekkaklarck, is there any precedence for this? Having two keywords, one that returns a list of items and the other that returns just the first.
pekkaklarck commentedon Jul 28, 2015
I think it would be convenient to have
Get WebElementseparately.For example, XML library has both
Get ElementsandGet Elementkeywords. The former returns a list of elements and the list can be empty. The latter fails if there is not exactly one element. Would that make sense in S2L context?tarand commentedon Jul 28, 2015
I would say, yes.
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I think it would be convenient to have Get WebElement separately.
For example, XML library has both Get Elements and Get Element keywords. The former returns a list of elements and the list can be empty. The latter fails if there is not exactly one element. Would that make sense in S2L context?
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just-be-dev commentedon Jul 28, 2015
I thought it was needed originally, and I still think it'd be nice to have.
just-be-dev commentedon Aug 14, 2015
Fixed in 1.7.3