multiply tabs are not switching and closing wrong one

[ghost]

Hello!
I have a page with 4 links, which I'm opening one by one. The links are really heavy and it takes a lot of time to load them fully. After opening links I look for there ids

.getTabIds(function(err,response){ gtabIDs=response; console.log(gtabIDs);})

and try to switch to another tab

.switchTab(gtabIDs[1])

but it's impossible to switch to them, i'm always on my current tab, I checked with something like (is it dependant on a tab is loaded or not?)

.getCurrentTabId(function(err,response){console.log(response);})

The other problem is I can't close tab with .close(gtabIDs[1]) , because the only closing tab is current one

So the questions are:

1. Am I switching tabs wrong?
2. Am I closing tabs in a wrong way?

PS I'm using mocha & chrome

[ghost]

Just updated to 2.4.0 and nothing changed, switchTab is not working :( PS tab is a global var and I have 4 tabs opened in test before, latest Chrome.

            client
                .getTabIds(function(err,response) {
                    tabs = response.slice(0);
                    console.log('All tabs: ' + tabs);
                })
                .getCurrentTabId(function(err,response) {
                    console.log('My tab: ' + response);
                })
                .switchTab(tabs[1])
                .getCurrentTabId(function(err,response) {
                    console.log('My tab: ' + response);
                    console.log('All tabs: ' + tabs);
                })

I get:

All tabs: CDwindow-5E7FE6C3-BC8F-4D7C-8F46-29DB9A2FCB01,CDwindow-55D008EE-A26B-494B-A923-96E39EB63472,CDwindow-3B02516B-AB48-47B8-BB7E-2780295E3EE2,CDwindow-107A2784-74E1-4950-994A-AB7C99512F1C,CDwindow-37D1E112-5717-44DB-A37C-11621030BA40

My tab: CDwindow-5E7FE6C3-BC8F-4D7C-8F46-29DB9A2FCB01

My tab: CDwindow-5E7FE6C3-BC8F-4D7C-8F46-29DB9A2FCB01

All tabs: CDwindow-5E7FE6C3-BC8F-4D7C-8F46-29DB9A2FCB01,CDwindow-55D008EE-A26B-494B-A923-96E39EB63472,CDwindow-3B02516B-AB48-47B8-BB7E-2780295E3EE2,CDwindow-107A2784-74E1-4950-994A-AB7C99512F1C,CDwindow-37D1E112-5717-44DB-A37C-11621030BA40

So it's not really related to close(), because it's behaving correctly, but to switchTab() which is not working.

[christian-bromann]

Haha. I now see the problem, make that mistake also every time. switchTab doesn't work because the variable tabs[1] is undefined in that moment you call that command. The variable tabs gets changed in the callback that gets executed after WebdriverIO put switchTab in its command queue. That's the burden of asynchronicity ;-)

[ghost]

Oh, now I got it, it's was not so obvious and I forgetting it every time. So the goal should be in switchTab() inside the callback of getCurrentTabId or getTabIds() ? Or is there any more elegant way to do it?

UPDATED
ok in fact I did something like that, thx 👍

   client.getTabIds(function(err,response) {
      var allTabs = response.slice(0);
      // Assert we have {number of opened tabs} + 1 (current) tabs
      assert.equal(allTabs.length, elements_cnt + 1, 'should be four new opened tabs');
      //Close newly opened tabs except new one
      for(var idx=1; idx<allTabs.length; idx++) {
         this.switchTab(allTabs[idx]).close();
      }
      });
   })