more functions accepting IWebElement

[AlexeyRaga]

It would be nice to make more functions to accept IWebElement, not only css selector.

For example, read function would be useful in case when you find an element through element |> elementsWithin |> List.find pipeline and want to read its value, or assert its value.

I see there is a function textOf but it is currently private...

Similar for assertions.

[lefthandedgoat]

Ok I can do this tonight probably.

[lefthandedgoat]

I made this change for read, clear, selected, and deselected.

It will go into a new build shortly.

Which assertions do you think should have this behavior?

[lefthandedgoat]

Now available in canopy 0.8.0
http://www.nuget.org/packages/canopy

[AlexeyRaga]

Thanks a lot!!!
For assertions (and for other behaviors), I think it should be transparent and should work in both cases whether I have IWebElement or just a selector.

[lefthandedgoat]

Something like
"#someSelector" == "SomeText"

also would work as
let elem = element "#someSelector"
elem == "SomeText"

?

If so, I can do that, it will take a bit of time because some of the assertions are complicated. Its definitely doable though.

[AlexeyRaga]

Yes, I meant something like that.
I think it is more like enhancement or a low-priority item anyway because now we can do

//get an element somehow
let elem = element "#someSelector" 
read elem == "Some Test"

[ssboisen]

I agree that most functions should work with both IWebElement and a cssselector directly. In my use of canopy I've missed having displayed and notDisplayed as well as check and uncheck that works on IWebElement since I've used elements in order to extract a number of elements. The following shows a practical usecase of both checked and displayed for IWebElement where a graph and checkboxes to toggle graph visibility is used together. In my own code I had to create my own version of check and displayed that worked on IWebElement.

let seriesCheckBoxes = elements "div.site-show-on-non-mobile checklist input[type=checkbox]" |> Array.ofList
let seriesGraphs = elements "g.highcharts-series-group g.highcharts-series" |> Seq.take seriesCheckBoxes.Length |> Array.ofSeq
let zipped = Array.zip seriesCheckBoxes seriesGraphs

zipped |> Array.iter (fun (cb, g) -> 
                    check cb
                    displayed g
                    )

[lefthandedgoat]

I can add this. Thanks for the feedback!

[lefthandedgoat]

@ssboisen this change is now available in nuget 0.8.6. If you need anymore changed please let me know!

[ssboisen]

Awesome, thank you!

[lefthandedgoat]

Closing this. If you would like to see any other features added to canopy open a ticket and I will do my best!