[Context]
Appium 1.6.5
XCode 8.3.3
iOS 10.3
Python 2.7
I am experimenting with Appium with a basic iOS app created off of the XCode template that creates a Tabbed Application. My app was created off of that template that essentially has a Tab Bar Controller with 2 tabs pre-set. Each tab displays a different View. Each View has 2 labels with some text on them.
[Goal]
I want to write an Appium script that navigates to a particular tab, then reads the text of one of the labels.
[Issue]
I am able to locate the elements up to (and including) the view corresponding to the selected tab. But, I do not see any element that is inside that view.
I have tried to use both ID and XPATH with the same results.
Note: each element I am trying to access has Accessibility enabled and an Accessibility ID set. Every Accessibility ID I have set is unique.
[Question]
How can I access the label in question with Appium? Or even better, any of the elements of my view?
[Output of driver.page_source]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><AppiumAUT><XCUIElementTypeApplication type="XCUIElementTypeApplication" name="MyTestApp" label="MyTestApp" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="667">
<XCUIElementTypeWindow type="XCUIElementTypeWindow" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="667">
<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="667">
<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="667">
<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="667">
<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" name="view1" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="667"/>
</XCUIElementTypeOther>
</XCUIElementTypeOther>
<XCUIElementTypeTabBar type="XCUIElementTypeTabBar" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="618" width="375" height="49"/>
</XCUIElementTypeOther>
</XCUIElementTypeWindow>
<XCUIElementTypeWindow type="XCUIElementTypeWindow" enabled="true" visible="false" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="667">
<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" enabled="true" visible="false" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="667"/>
</XCUIElementTypeWindow>
<XCUIElementTypeWindow type="XCUIElementTypeWindow" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="667">
<XCUIElementTypeStatusBar type="XCUIElementTypeStatusBar" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="20">
<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" enabled="true" visible="false" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="20"/>
<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="20">
<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" enabled="true" visible="true" x="6" y="0" width="39" height="20"/>
<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="SSID" name="3 of 3 Wi-Fi bars" label="3 of 3 Wi-Fi bars" enabled="true" visible="true" x="50" y="0" width="13" height="20"/>
<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" name="10:35 AM" label="10:35 AM" enabled="true" visible="true" x="161" y="0" width="56" height="20"/>
<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" name="-100% battery power" label="-100% battery power" enabled="true" visible="true" x="337" y="0" width="33" height="20"/>
</XCUIElementTypeOther>
</XCUIElementTypeStatusBar>
</XCUIElementTypeWindow>
</XCUIElementTypeApplication></AppiumAUT>
View1 is one of my two views, and as you can see in the XML above, it doesn't seem to contain any of the labels in that view:
<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" name="view1" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="667"/>
[Python Code]
Here is the code I am using:
driver = webdriver.Remote(get_appium_server(), desired_capabilities=get_capabilities())
driver.find_element_by_id('view1') # This works fine
driver.find_element_by_id('view1label1') # The code fails here despite the fact that this accessibility ID exists for one of the labels underneath 'view1'
When I run it, I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/some_path/Appium.py", line 33, in <module>
mypythonappiumfunction()
File "/some_path/Appium.py", line 28, in mypythonappiumfunction
driver.find_element_by_id('view1label1') # The code fails here despite the fact that this accessibility ID exists for one of the labels underneath 'view1'
File "/some_path/robot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 289, in find_element_by_id
return self.find_element(by=By.ID, value=id_)
File "/some_path/robot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 791, in find_element
'value': value})['value']
File "/some_path/robot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 256, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/some_path/robot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/appium/webdriver/errorhandler.py", line 29, in check_response
raise wde
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.`
[Screenshot of the app]
[XCode accessibility properties of the Label I am trying to access]
