appium-wait-plugin

appium-wait-plugin

This is an Appium plugin designed to wait for element to be present.

Prerequisite

Appium version 2.0

Tested with appium v2.0.0-beta.42

Installation - Server

Install the plugin using Appium's plugin CLI, either as a named plugin or via NPM:

appium plugin install --source=npm appium-wait-plugin

Installation - Client

No special action is needed to make things work on the client side.

Activation

The plugin will not be active unless turned on when invoking the Appium server:

appium --use-plugins=element-wait

Configuration

To override the default element-wait retry

1. Use appium server CLI --plugin-element-wait-timeout=30000 --plugin-element-wait-interval-between-attempts=200

2. Use appium server config file. Refer.

Example

Before wait-plugin

wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(MobileBy.AccessibilityId("login"))).click();
wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(MobileBy.AccessibilityId("slider1")));
driver.findElementByAccessibilityId("slider1").click();
WebElement slider = wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(MobileBy.AccessibilityId("slider")));
WebElement slider1 = wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(MobileBy.AccessibilityId("slider1")));

After wait-plugin

driver.findElementByAccessibilityId("login").click();
driver.findElementByAccessibilityId("slider1").click();
driver.findElementByAccessibilityId("login").sendKeys('Hello');

Configure Wait timeout in test

WDIO Example

 driver.addCommand(
        'setWaitPluginTimeout',
        command('POST', '/session/:sessionId/waitplugin/timeout', {
          command: 'setWaitPluginTimeout',
          parameters: [
            {
              name: 'data',
              type: 'object',
              description: 'a valid parameter',
              required: true,
            },
          ],
        })
      );

driver.addCommand(
     'getWaitTimeout',
        command('GET', '/session/:sessionId/waitplugin/getTimeout', {
          command: 'getWaitTimeout',
          parameters: [],
          returns: {
            type: 'object',
            name: 'activity',
            description: 'Name of the current activity',
          },
        })
      );

Usage

await driver.setWaitPluginTimeout({ timeout: 1111, intervalBetweenAttempts: 11 });

Server logs will be as below:

[Appium] Plugins which can handle cmd 'findElement': element-wait (sessionless)
[Appium] Plugin element-wait (sessionless) is now handling cmd 'findElement'
[Plugin [element-wait (sessionless)]] Waiting to find element with accessibility id strategy for login selector
[Plugin [element-wait (sessionless)]] Waiting to find element with accessibility id strategy for login selector
[Plugin [element-wait (sessionless)]] Waiting to find element with accessibility id strategy for login selector
[Plugin [element-wait (sessionless)]] Waiting to find element with accessibility id strategy for login selector
[Plugin [element-wait (sessionless)]] Element with accessibility id strategy for login selector found.
[Plugin [element-wait (sessionless)]] Checking if login element is displayed
[Plugin [element-wait (sessionless)]] login element is displayed.