WebElementCondition did not resolve to a WebElement

[coreystinson2]

Running a fresh installation of NPM and receiving this error that is not occurring on my main development box, I have followed all installation steps and cannot reproduce on my main box.
suite is failing with the following error

Failed: WebElementCondition did not resolve to a WebElement: [object Object]
at /Users/corey/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:698:17

I have identified the error being raised on all of the following commands throughout my suite, and without them the suite passes:
browser.driver.wait(protractor.until.ableToSwitchToFrame(frame))
browser.driver.wait(protractor.until.elementTextIs(element, text))

[aheys]

Just to add on to this I was having the same problem with:
browser.driver.wait(protractor.until.elementIsVisible(element(by.css('h1'))));

This line would cause every following expect condition to fail with the same error.

[ajoslin103]

+1

[SomeshKumarN]

@coreystinson2 what is the solution for this issue? i am being facing this issue due to this, all my scripts are getting failed.. could you please tell me what is the solution for this....

[ajoslin103]

these are what works for me now
(was very helpful --> http://www.protractortest.org/#/api)

function waitForElement ( _element ) {
    var EC = protractor.ExpectedConditions;
    return browser.wait(EC.presenceOf(_element));
};

function waitForNotElement ( _element ) {
    var EC = protractor.ExpectedConditions;
    return browser.wait(EC.not(EC.presenceOf(_element)));
};

function shouldHaveTextInElement ( _msg, _element, _text, _howLong ) {
    var EC = protractor.ExpectedConditions;
    it(_msg, function() {
        expect(browser.wait(EC.textToBePresentInElement(_element,_text)),_howLong).toBe(true);
    });
};

[coreystinson2]

I should've noted down my solution prior to closing the issue, my apologies.
I believe dropping a version of either selenium or protractor - can't remember which one. These are the specs i'm running with atm and this problem is not occuring.
selenium-webdriver@2.52.0
protractor@3.3.0

Hope that helps

[prasikumbhare]

i had the same issue.. problem seems to be with selenium-webdriver. Just

**replace** `protractor.until`

**with** `webdriver.until`

Works for me ..Cheers :)

[tbosch]

webdriver.until is not a real replacement as it expects an already found WebElement, and not just a WebElementFinder. A better solution is this:

const selector = element(by.css('some-selector'));
browser.wait(protractor.ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElement(selector, 'someValue'), 1000)

@juliemr I also stumbled over this issue when upgrading angular to use protractor@4.x. protractor.until.elementTextIs seems to be broken for protractor. Could you have a look?