React Native App on ios, element has the same value for name, values, text, accessibilityLabel etc

hakaka 2018-05-28 14:06:41 UTC #1

Hi,

I’m using Appium 1.7.2 and automating a native application which is written in React. Not sure if anybody else is facing this issue but when I’m trying to get a text of an element in ios application, the text value is the same as accessibility label, value, name and not giving me the actual text that is visible on the application.

We are using accessibilityLabel’s to identify elements and we can reach the elements. The problem is last week we suddenly couldn’t get the text of the elements in ios application. On Android same elements can give the correct text but on ios it is as I said.

We’ve already tried the followings;

Roll back to previous version of react native
Using a testId to accessibilityLabel converter plugin
Getting every type of attribute, name, text…

Thanks in advance

Umar_Khan 2018-05-28 15:58:11 UTC #2

How are you trying to get the text of the element. Please share the code statement

hakaka 2018-05-29 05:29:49 UTC #3

driver.findElementByAccessibilityId(accessibilityId).getText(); / also tried with getAttribute(“value/text/name/accessibilityLabel”)

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//XCUIElementTypeOther[@name="" + elementName + “”]"));

I can find the element but when I’m trying to get the text its the same as the accessibilityId, and in the both appium and xcode inspector it also shows all of the values are the same.

Umar_Khan 2018-05-29 13:24:36 UTC #4

Screenshot of the inspector please.

hakaka 2018-05-30 08:31:06 UTC #5

For example this element with ADULT text.

hakaka 2018-05-31 12:08:09 UTC #6

Umar_Khan 2018-06-01 15:14:15 UTC #7

Thanks. Did you try to use the same Appium server version that you have been using before and see if problem persists. or use the latest latest version of Appium server

hakaka 2018-06-05 11:26:42 UTC #8

I’ve tried with the latest Appium version also and it was a failure also.

Umar_Khan 2018-06-05 15:34:11 UTC #9

Try switching to webview and try to fetch the text. It could be react native rendering issue

muxe 2018-07-17 07:55:23 UTC #10

I have the same on Appium 1.8.1, iOS 11.4, RN 0.56.0.

Have you had any luck solving this?

edit: for me the solution was to use for android accessible: true, accessibilityLabel: 'the-id' and for iOS: testID: 'the-id'

(taken from: https://github.com/tipsi/react-native-testid)

VInoth_kumar 2018-09-10 06:14:36 UTC #11

I have the same issue, for react native app i can’t able to find the elements.