Unable to locate the element inside the webview Appium

[cw-saisrijan-gupta]

I'm currently working on automating a hybrid app using Appium WebDriverIO. My script successfully switches to the webview context without any issues. However, I'm facing a problem when trying to locate an element inside the webview using XPath: //input[@data-testing-id='name-input'].

I've verified that the XPath is correct by inspecting the webview using chrome://inspect/#devices, where the element is present.

[0-0] 2023-09-07T09:04:40.093Z INFO webdriver: RESULT {
[0-0]   error: 'no such element',
[0-0]   message: `no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//input[@data-testing-id='name-input']"}\n` +
[0-0]     '  (Session info: webview=116.0.0.0)',
[0-0]   stacktrace: '\tGetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6C7CB52A2+57122]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7C2EA92]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7AFE3AB]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7B37D3E]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7B37E2C]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7B70B67]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7B5701F]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7B6EB82]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7B56DB3]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7B2D2B1]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7B2E494]\n' +
[0-0]     '\tGetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6C7F5EF82+2849794]\n' +
[0-0]     '\tGetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6C7FB1D24+3189156]\n' +
[0-0]     '\tGetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6C7FAACAF+3160367]\n' +
[0-0]     '\tGetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6C7D46D06+653702]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7C3A208]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7C362C4]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7C363F6]\n' +
[0-0]     '\t(No symbol) [0x00007FF6C7C267A3]\n' +
[0-0]     '\tBaseThreadInitThunk [0x00007FF9F65226BD+29]\n' +
[0-0]     '\tRtlUserThreadStart [0x00007FF9F6B6DFB8+40]\n'
[0-0] }

Appium Logs Link

Appium Version : 1.20.2
Chrome(Webview) Version : 116.0.5845.164
Chromedriver Version : 116.0.5845.96

Verified Context Switching: I've made sure to correctly switch to the webview context.

Specified ChromeDriver Path: Appium was unable to get ChromeDriver version 116 automatically. To address this, I specified the ChromeDriver executable path inside the capabilities using the chromedriverExecutable capability

Tried Upgrading appium-chromedriver: In an attempt to resolve the issue, I upgraded the appium-chromedriver package to its latest version. However, the problem persisted.

Any further guidance or insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[jlipps]

Those errors are coming from Chromedriver itself, so there's nothing Appium can do. The only thing I can recommend is to use latest versions of all Appium software in case that is somehow causing an issue.

Have you printed out the page source immediately before the find call to visually ascertain whether the element is actually present in the webview source?