[Appium] grabAttributeFrom method can't be used with #id selector

[chilikasha]

What are you trying to achieve?

Trying to use grabAttributeFrom method which is present in Appium helper documentation
https://codecept.io/helpers/Appium.html#grabattributefrom

What do you get instead?

I see this there is no grabAttributeFrom function inside the Appium helper class in codeceptjs: https://github.com/codeceptjs/CodeceptJS/blob/3.x/lib/helper/Appium.js

If use it with id from a native Android app like I.grabAttributeFrom("#some.app:id/nextBtn", 'enabled'), then I get error

Invalid CSS selector '#some.app:id/nextBtn'. Reason: 'Error: Rule expected but "/" found.'

as a workaround this seems to work
I.grabAttributeFrom("//android.widget.Button[@resource-id='some.app:id/nextBtn']")

Details

• CodeceptJS version: 3.0.4
• NodeJS Version: 14.5.2
• Operating System: Mac OS 10.14.6
• appium

[nlespiaucq]

Hi,

Same issue with the method grabNumberOfVisibleElements, on CodeceptJS version: 3.0.7

It's possible to interact with the #id of the android item with most of the method offered by the framework (ex: I.tap, I.seeElement, etc.) except following methods: grabNumberOfVisibleElements, grabAttributeFrom.

Error:

Stacktrace:

     Appium error: Locator Strategy 'css selector' is not supported for this session
      at Object.getErrorFromResponseBody (node_modules/webdriver/build/utils.js:94:12)
      at WebDriverRequest._request (node_modules/webdriver/build/request.js:133:31)
      at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
      at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
      at Browser.wrapCommandFn (node_modules/@wdio/utils/build/shim.js:58:29)
      at Browser.$$ (node_modules/webdriverio/build/commands/browser/$$.js:6:17)
      at Browser.wrapCommandFn (node_modules/@wdio/utils/build/shim.js:58:29)
      at Appium._locate (node_modules/codeceptjs/lib/helper/WebDriver.js:804:19)
      at Appium.grabNumberOfVisibleElements (node_modules/codeceptjs/lib/helper/WebDriver.js:1539:17)