web » waitForElementTextPresent(locator,text)

Description

This command instructs Nexial to wait for the presence of an element in the current web page which

1. matches to the specified locator, and
2. contains the specified text (supports PolyMatcher; see below)

The amount of time to wait is determined by nexial.pollWaitMs, in milliseconds.

This command is especially useful when the specified locator can be matched against a list of elements that are loaded dynamically (i.e. AJAX or dynamic DOM rendering via JavaScript). As such, the target element might not be available at the moment when it is needed. One can use this command to wait for (and ensure) the availability of the intended element before proceeding to interacting with it.

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PolyMatcher Enabled

PolyMatcher - a flexible way to perform text matching

In addition to extract text matching (or string matching), this command/expression also supports "polymatcher" (as of v3.6). With polymatcher, one can instruct Nexial to match the intended text in a less exact (but more expressiveness) way. Here are the supported matching strategies:

• CONTAIN:: Use this technique to perform partial text matches. For example: use CONTAIN:completed as intent for "matching text that contains the text ‘completed’".
• CONTAIN_ANY_CASE:: Use this technique to perform partial text matches (same as CONTAIN:), except without considering the uppercase/lowercase variants. For example, CONTAIN_ANY_CASE:Successfully would match "Completed successfully", "Completed Successfully", and "COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY".
• START:: Use this technique to perform "starts with" text matches. For example, START:Greetings matches any text starting with the text "Greetings".
• START_ANY_CASE:: Use this technique to perform "starts with" text matches without considering letter casing. For example, START_ANY_CASE:Greetings matches any text starting with the text "Greetings", "GREETINGS", "greetings", "greeTINGs", etc.
• END:: Use this technique to perform "ends with" text matches. For example, END:Please try again. matches any text that ends with the text "Please try again.".
• END_ANY_CASE:: Use this technique to perform "ends with" text matches without considering letter casing. For example, END_ANY_CASE:Please try again. matches any text that ends with the text "Please try again." in any combination of upper or lower case.
• REGEX:: Use this technique to perform text matching via regular expression. For example: use REGEX:.+[S|s]uccessfully.* as intent for "matching text that contains 1 or more character, then either ‘Successfully’ or ‘successfully’, follow by zero or more characters.".
• EMPTY:[true|false]: Use this technique to perform "is empty?" check. EMPTY:true means that the target value is expected to be empty (no content or length). EMPTY:false means the target value is expected NOT to be empty (with content).
• BLANK:[true|false]: Use this technique to perform "is blank?" check. BLANK:true means that the target value is expected to contain blank(s) or whitespace (space, tab, newline, line feed, etc.) characters or empty (no content or length). BLANK:false means the target value is expected to contain at least 1 non-whitespace character. Note that this matcher includes te EMPTY: check as well.
• LENGTH:: Use this technique to perform text length validation against target value. One may use a numeric comparator for added flexibility/expressiveness. For example: LENGTH:5 means to match the target value to a length of 5. LENGTH: > 5 means to match the target value to a length greater than 5. The available comparators are: >, >=, <, <=, =, !=.
• NUMERIC:: Use this technique to perform numeric comparison/matching against target value. With this technique, 100 considered the same as 100.00 since both value has the same numerical value. One may use a numeric comparator for added flexibility/expressiveness. For example: NUMERIC:5 means to match the target value to the number 5. NUMERIC: <= -15.02 means to match the target value as a number that is less or equal to -15.02. The available comparators are: >, >=, <, <=, =, !=.
• EXACT:: Use this to perform exact text matching, i.e. equality matching. In most cases, this is not required as the absence of any special keyword almost always means the "is this the same as that?" test. However in some special cases such as base » assertMatch(text,regex), one may use this EXACT: syntax to indicate match by equality instead of regular expression.
• And, of course, one can still use the exact matching strategy by specifying the exact text to match.

We will be adding new strategy to polymatcher – Please feel free to request for new ones!

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Parameters

• locator - The locator (or selector) to seek out potential target element(s). Note that Nexial will perform this operation until the time specified via nexial.pollWaitMs.
• text - The text of the target element to seek out. Internally, Nexial will trim the element text prior to matching it. PolyMatcher is supported.

Example

Suppose we have a list of clickable elements that is dynamically loaded upon activation:

We can use this command to wait for the intended target to be loaded/present before acting upon it:

See Also

• waitForElementPresent(locator)
• waitForElementsPresent(locators)
• waitForTitle(text)