Identify properties and filter in the query – Calabash

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I will show how you can search for other property of an element beyond that appears when you query an element with calabash.

A simple query wich returns a property is:

query("UIView", :textContent)

But if you want returns color, or other property beyond the simple one (textContent, y, x, rect, class, id, label, etc…). You can see what types of properties/attributes this element/class can returns and use. You can see the list of properties/attributes that each element/class returns here. All that you need to know is the class of the element. First, you do the simple query and discover the class of this element and after search this class in the UIKit of iOS. There is a short-hand form of specifying UIKit class-names. For example, if you just write label this is automatically translated to UILabel (which is a common UIKit class). In general, ClassName expressions that don’t start with view: get re-written. For example:xyzAbc will get re-written to view:'UIXyzAbc'

So if you discover that an element uses the class UIView, you can click in correspondent class and discover the list of attributes/properties that you can search for. Example:

- :backgroundColor

- :hidden

- :alpha

- :opaque

- :maskView

- :layer

- :accessibilityLabel

In Android the Views (also the TextView) can have almost anything as a background not just a color (a bitmap, a shape, a gradient color, etc). Because of this there is no way to get the background color of a view (it is not stored).

There is a simple form of specifying classes. For example, if you just write button this matches all views which have a class with simple name “button” (or “Button” as this is case in-sensitive). Remember that the simple name of a class is the last segment of the fully qualified class name, e.g., for android.widget.Button it is Button

This is not a limitation of Calabash but the Android system. You can get any property of an Android view if it is accessible.

The property names map to “getter”-methods of the view objects. In general prop:valwill try to call:

• prop()
• getProp()
• isProp()

You can query the following colors on the TextView (nothing is background):

- text color :currentTextColor

- hintTextColor :hintTextColor

- highlight color :highlightColor

- shadow color :shadowColor

You can identifying the properties of the class if you open the project and open the class file that you want to know the attributes. There you can find the properties that you can filter with calabash too.

– Examples:

query("RadioButton id:'radio_male'",:setChecked=>true)

query("RadioButton id:'radio_male'",:setChecked=>0)

query("CheckBox id:'check_update'",:isChecked)

query("CheckBox id:'check_update'",:isChecked=>1)

query("CheckBox id:'check_update'",:checked)

query("CheckBox id:'check_update'",:setChecked=>true)

query("RatingBar",setProgress:4)

query("RatingBar",:setProgress=>4)

query("RatingBar",:getProgress)

query("RatingBar",:method_name=>'getProgress', :arguments=>[])

query("RatingBar",:method_name=>'setProgress', :arguments=>[5])

query("datePicker",:method_name =>'updateDate',:arguments =>[1990,11,30])

query("EditText id:'email_input'",:getText)

query("EditText id:'email_input'",:text)

query("EditTextid:'email_input'", :method_name=>'setText',:arguments=>['test@test.com'])

query("EditTextid:'email_input'", :method_name=>'getText',:arguments=>[])

"tableViewCell indexPath:row,sec"

"button isEnabled:1"

query("label marked:'Tears in Heaven' parent tableViewCell descendant tableViewCellReorderControl")

 "linearLayout editText"