Getting value from xpath query with and without selenium
Posted March 2nd, 2010 by Reinier BaltCategories: Tracks
Using cucumber with webrat is not the same as using them with selenium. I found this out the hard way. In tracks, you have the ‘badge’ in the top-left corner which shows the number of items on the page. To check the number increases or decreases you want to retrieve the value of the badge.
I had:
xpath= "//span[@id='badge_count']" response.should have_xpath(xpath) do |node| badge = node.first.content.to_i end
Which did work without selenium, but selenium does not return a node to query. Instead AFAICS selenium wants:
xpath= "//span[@id='badge_count']"
response.should have_xpath(xpath)
badge = response.selenium.get_text("xpath=#{xpath}").to_i
Problem is that this cucumber step is used for features that require selenium and features that do not, so I ended up with
Then /the badge should show (.*)/ do |number|
badge = -1
xpath= "//span[@id='badge_count']"
if Rails.env == 'selenium'
response.should have_xpath(xpath)
badge = response.selenium.get_text("xpath=#{xpath}").to_i
else
response.should have_xpath(xpath) do |node|
badge = node.first.content.to_i
end
end
badge.should == number.to_i
end
Not very nice, but functional.
