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ucuber
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

Calling method of user defined class in keyword test

Hi *,

 

maybe this was asked before, but I can't find a solution.

 

Given: 

 

- language: python

- class definition:

  remark: I prefer identifying page elements with css-selectors because the name mapping tree seems to be to inconvenient to me, especially when there are still coming layout changes. Coming from angular there are too much panels, you know?

class AppLogin(WebElement):
  def __repr__(self):
    return "{}()".format(self.__class__.__name__)
  
  def __str__(self):
    return "{}".format(self._selectors)
    
  def __init__(self, page):
    super().__init__(page)
    self._selectors = dict(
      InputUsername=r'app-login input[type=text]',
      InputPassword=r'app-login input[type=password]',
      MessageArea=r'app-login p',
      ButtonLogin=r'app-login button[type=submit]',    
    )
  
  #-- API --     
  @property
  def InputUsername(self):
    return self.get("InputUsername")
  
  ...

  #-- Convenience --                 
  def set_username(self, text):
    self.InputUsername.Click()
    self.InputUsername.SetText(text)
    return self

  ...

- what I want to do:

 

  in a keywordtest I would like to define a step, where the object of type AppLogin is instantiated and the method set_username called: AppLogin(page).set_username("blah"). I do not want to write a wrapper function around it, because this adds another level of indirection, what I do not think is a good solution.

 

If someone of you has an idea to call the method directly as shown above in the keyword test?

 

Regards

 

Ulrich

 

    • ucuber's avatar
      ucuber
      Occasional Contributor

      Hi,

       

      yes, tried it. But the class definition will not be shown. It only shows methods.

      If I build a factory method, this will be shown, but I can not append the final method call (factory(page).method("Blah"))

       

      The only idea of a solution is at the moment to define a project variable of the user defined type and then call the method by using this variable

       

      1. set project variable from Class() as "o", type "object"

      2. Code Snippet: Project.Variables.o.method("blah")

       

      It is not so very elegant, perhaps I will fall back to the wrapper ... as a colleague once said: there is no problem that can not be solved with another level of indirection aside from problems of indirection :-)

       

      Kind Regards

       

      Ulrich