Explicit Wait functionality?

[johnjelinek]

"An explicit waits is code you define to wait for a certain condition to occur before proceeding further in the code." http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp#explicit-and-implicit-waits

Is it possible to do something like ptor.until(mycondition_to_continue_testing)?

[johnjelinek]

Here's a little example, I think this test sucks:

it('should send and receive a message', function () {
  var input = ptor.findElement(protractor.By.input('newMessage'));
  var button = ptor.findElement(protractor.By.css('[ng-click="publish()"]'));
  var newMessageReceived = false;

  ptor.wait(function () {
    input.sendKeys('testing');
    button.click();

    ptor.findElements(
      protractor.By.repeater('message in messages').column('{{message}}'))
      .then(function (msgs) {
        msgs[0].getText().then(function (text) { // new messages are unshifted
          if (text === 'Waiting_Room -> testing') {
            newMessageReceived = true;
          }                
        });                
      });                  

    if (newMessageReceived) {       
      expect(newMessageReceived).toBe(true);
      return true;
    }
  }, 5000);
});

From what I can tell, the scenario is that on page load, there is a slight amount of time needed to make a connection to the pubsub server, but the test is already firing off messages (which don't get sent yet). I am waiting for responses come back from the server, but have noticed that they don't come through until about the 4th button.click(). Do you know a better way to do a test like this?

[johnjelinek]

I confirmed that the problem is because the connection to the pubsub server doesn't finish initializing until about a second after page load. This test might be slightly better, please let me know if this is more appropriate or if there's a better way for protractor to handle this scenario.

it('should send and receive a message', function () {
  var input = ptor.findElement(protractor.By.input('newMessage'));
  var button = ptor.findElement(protractor.By.css('[ng-click="publish()"]'));

  waits(2000);
  setTimeout(function () {
    input.sendKeys('testing');
    button.click();

    setTimeout(function () {
      ptor.findElements(
        protractor.By.repeater('message in messages').column('{{message}}'))
        .then(function (msgs) {
          msgs[0].getText().then(function (text) { // new message is unshifted
            expect(text).toBe('Waiting_Room -> testing');
          });
        });
    }, 300);
  }, 1000);
});

[juliemr]

Is there a way to tell if the pubsub is up and running more easily than clicking something and seeing what happens? You can use ptor.wait with any function, so if you do have mycondition_to_continue_testing_fn(), you can do:

ptor.wait(mycondition_to_continue_testing_fn());

var input = ptor.findElement(...)

Maybe there is a variable that gets initiated in the browser or somthing? Could you test for the pubsub with ptor.executeScript()? See https://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/browse/javascript/webdriver/webdriver.js#375 for the docs on that.

Otherwise, using ptor.sleep(2000) is preferable to using waits(2000).

[juliemr]

Closing as there seem to be no further questions - please reopen if something else comes up.