Unable to find element using :uiautomator

[willosser]

Environment: OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), Ruby 2.2.5, Appium 1.6.3
Gems: appium_lib-9.3.6, selenium-webdriver-3.3.0
Also fails with appium_lib-9.3.5 and appium_lib-9.3.4
Android: android-sdk/24.4.1_1

We had been using this code with no issues with Appium 1.4.13, Selenium-webdriver.2.53.4 and appium_lib-8.0.2. My memory tells me that this was working just three weeks ago with (perhaps) some slight gem changes, but I have no physical evidence demonstrating that.
appium-android.txt

When calling driver.find_element(:uiautomator, search_string), we receive the following error:

  cannot find element by :uiautomator (ArgumentError)
  /Users/wosser/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.5/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.3.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/search_context.rb:60:in `find_element'

I'm attaching the appium-android.txt log, although I don't believe the problem is reported there.

[KazuCocoa]

@willosser
How about using find_element_with_appium instead of find_element?
Because we couldn't extend find_element directly from selenium-webdriver3.x. So, I've added find_element/s_with_appium for @driver instance to call some appium specific methods such as :uiautomator from appium_lib9.1.0.

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I have to update some documentations.

• ruby_lib/lib/appium_lib/driver.rb

  Line 691 in 17d17e6

  # Calls @driver.find_elements

• ruby_lib/lib/appium_lib/device/device.rb

  Line 426 in 4ae0815

  # @!method find_element

[willosser]

I will test this. Can I replace all calls to driver.find_element/s with calls to driver.find_elements/s_with_appium, or should I reserve that only for by-methods such as :uiautomator

[KazuCocoa]

You can replace all find_elament/s to find_element/s_with_appoum since _with_appium methods include find_elements.

[KazuCocoa]

@willosser
I apologise you since I decide to remove _with_appium from find_elements.
https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib/pull/532/files

I'll release this as 9.3.7 soon.

Because my previous change associated with_appium confuse anyone, I think.
So, I remove it and rename to find_element/s.

1] pry(#<driver>)> $driver.driver.find_elements :accessibility_id, "Toolbar"
=> [#<Selenium::WebDriver::Element:0x76d28ec830c6a272 id="A7372773-5402-4CE1-91DF-EEEC6FA01126">]
[2] pry(#<driver>)> find_elements :accessibility_id, "Toolbar"
=> [#<Selenium::WebDriver::Element:0x203d0b8d4ed8fed2 id="65B07CDA-D5B5-4C97-A2BB-B8EAA594BA85">]

[KazuCocoa]

I've update gems to be able to call accessibility_id, :uiautomator and :predicate with @driver.find_element/s with https://rubygems.org/gems/appium_lib/versions/9.3.7 .

Please update ruby_lib and try find_element/s, without _with_appium suffix. @willosser