TouchAction - would be great if tap or press could support an x,y only (no element) scenario

[kiminoa]

In trying to dismiss the soft keyboard after a .clear() without resetting the session's keyboard setting (i.e. hide_keyboard is a no go), I thought I'd be clever and use TouchAction like this to tap just outside of the element that had displayed the soft keyboard:

def dismiss_keyboard(element):
    elem_x = element.location['x']
    elem_y = element.location['y']
    # Find average x-value between left edge of app and left edge of element 
    benign_x = (elem_x - 0) / 2                                           

    # Tap between element and edge of app to dismiss soft keyboard          
    action = TouchAction(self.driver)                                       
    action.move_to(                                                         
        benign_x, elem_y).press(                                          
            x=benign_x, y=elem_y).release().perform()   

But, of course, not clever, because both press() and tap() require an element:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/kraymoure/repos/r64/qa/tests/mobile/test_ios_environments.py", line 53, in setUp
    self.clear_search()
  File "/Users/kraymoure/repos/r64/qa/tests/mobile/ios_base.py", line 272, in clear_search
    self.dismiss_soft_keyboard(search_input)
  File "/Users/kraymoure/repos/r64/qa/tests/mobile/ios_base.py", line 295, in dismiss_soft_keyboard
    benign_x, search_y).press(
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/appium/webdriver/common/touch_action.py", line 79, in move_to
    self._add_action('moveTo', self._get_opts(el, x, y))
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/appium/webdriver/common/touch_action.py", line 118, in _get_opts
    opts['element'] = element.id
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'id'

[radialmodule]

TouchAction already supports supplying None for the element (and other arguments).

E.g.: action.press(el=None, x=None, y=None)

[Akulavenkatesh]

can you check if this works:
self.driver.tap([(128.90625, 335.90625 )])
give the co ordinates of the space outside of the element

[earendil]

Why is this still open!? :D

[KazuCocoa]

thanks for the notice :)