Appium 1.6.3 ios 10+ [ruby] Handling two alerts at the same time

Kote_Godue 2017-02-28 00:50:32 UTC #1

Hi guys,

So im testing iOS app and i got situation when 2 alerts pop up one after another. And first one is hidden after the second one. Appium says that multiple choices is found and dont give the ability to select

I`m using ruby bindings, is there a way to bypass this situation

[debug] [BaseDriver] Waiting up to 11000 ms for condition
[debug] [JSONWP Proxy] Proxying [POST /elements] to [POST http://localhost:8100/session/FBD28E85-0A3F-4F7A-9673-C254F4B44FE9/elements] with body: {"using":"xpath","value":"//*[@name=\"Enable\"]"}
[debug] [WebDriverAgent] Sim: Feb 27 19:38:01 administrators-Mac-mini XCTRunner[86514]: Enqueue Failure: UI Testing Failure - Multiple matches found:
[debug] [WebDriverAgent] Sim: →Application 0x600000577100: {{0.0, 0.0}, {320.0, 568.0}}, label: 'Test'
[debug] [WebDriverAgent] Sim: ↳Window 0x6000005774c0: Main Window, {{0.0, 0.0}, {320.0, 568.0}}
[debug] [WebDriverAgent] Sim: ↳Other 0x6000005783c0: {{0.0, 0.0}, {320.0, 568.0}}
[debug] [WebDriverAgent] Sim: ↳Alert 0x600000578600: traits: 72057602627862528, {{25.0, 185.5}, {270.0, 197.5}}, label: 'first'
[debug] [WebDriverAgent] Sim: →Application 0x600000577100: {{0.0, 0.0}, {320.0, 568.0}}, label: 'Test'
[debug] [WebDriverAgent] Sim: ↳Window 0x6000005774c0: Main Window, {{0.0, 0.0}, {320.0, 568.0}}
[debug] [WebDriverAgent] Sim: ↳Other 0x600000579c80: {{0.0, 0.0}, {320.0, 568.0}}
[debug] [WebDriverAgent] Sim: ↳Alert 0x600000579ec0: traits: 72057602627862528, {{25.0, 139.0}, {270.0, 290.0}}, label: 'Second' /usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/WebDriverAgent/WebDriverAgentRunner/UITestingUITests.m 35 1

wreed 2017-02-28 02:39:38 UTC #2

Iterate through them in a loop. You don't give your code so I'm doing a bit of guesswork:

alerts = <however you are finding these>

    alerts.each do |alert|
      alert.accept
    end

Kote_Godue 2017-02-28 07:21:39 UTC #3

Hello Wreed, thank you for your insight and sorry for minimal info.

Your method can't be aplied cos my code looks like

Element :my_button, xpath "//*[@name="evaluate"]" #can be typos here

Page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert

And here appium gives error, i've tried to use find_custom to get those alerts to list, and got blank list. Is therer a way to access alert by it's label maybe?

slipy12 2017-02-28 07:51:03 UTC #4

You could also try to click by exact_text

texts_exact("Accept").last.click

Never faced this problem so we have to face the solution for the first time I think. Maybe is an scenario where appium gets stuck :S

wreed 2017-02-28 18:30:06 UTC #5

Hmm. Seems like switch_to.alert is having a problem with the two alerts. Looks like a bug to me. According to this documentation, you might be able to work around this with a helper method like, 'accept_alert'. Take a look and see if that doesn't help:

github.com

appium/ruby_lib/blob/master/docs/docs.md

### Documentation

- find_elements returns an empty array [] when no elements are found.
- button(int), textfield(int) use xpath so 1 is the first button, 2 the second etc. 0 is invalid.

#### [app_lib on rubydoc.info](http://www.rubydoc.info/github/appium/ruby_lib/master/toplevel)
##### General
- [Appium](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/README.md)
- [Ruby selenium-webdriver](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/Ruby-Bindings)
- [All methods supported by Appium](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/blob/master/docs/mjsonwp/protocol-methods.md)
- [MiniTest Expectations](http://docs.seattlerb.org/minitest/Minitest/Expectations.html)

##### iOS
- [iOS UI Automation](http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/UIAutomationRef/_index.html) Example use `@driver.execute_script "UIATarget.localTarget().frontMostApp().mainWindow().rect()"
`
    - [mechanic names of elements](https://github.com/jaykz52/mechanic/blob/8c490e1d225f384847e47ffdafb47cc2248bb96c/src/mechanic-core.js#L28)
- [WebDriverAgent](https://github.com/facebook/WebDriverAgent)

##### Android
- [Android UIAutomator](http://developer.android.com/tools/help/uiautomator/index.html)

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Kote_Godue 2017-02-28 20:34:13 UTC #6

slipy12, wreed Thank you very much for your responses, i will try those 2 sollutions and get back at you.

Currently to fasten up, testing, we solved it from the developers side by not showing second alert until first one is present.