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jack_edwards
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

How to get IsSupported to return False for stub objects?

Like the title says, I would like to have the IsSupported method (or some similar method) to return False when a stub object does not have a given property.  The reason for this is we are trying to v...
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    HKosova
    9 years ago

    Jack,

     

    IsSupported = True for stub objects is by design and documented.

     

    jack_edwards wrote:

     

    The simplest solution, we think, is to just modify the script to work around the Auto-wait timeout.

    Yes, that's probably the best way to handle this. Set Options.Run.Timeout to 0 at the beginning of your validation function, and restore the initial value at the end.

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jack_edwards
Occasional Contributor

Helen,

 

This is actually the code we were using until just recently.  The issue with this code, though, is it takes extremely long to process when the Aliases do not exist in the object tree.

 

Every time "aqObject.GetProperties(obj, True)" gets called, TestComplete tries to find the Alias in the object tree.  If the Alias does not exist in the object tree, then TestComplete waits for the amount of time setup in Current Project Properties > Auto-wait timeout, which is 10 seconds by default, multiplied by however many parts of the Alias are not in the object tree.

 

For example, if we are trying to validate Aliases.Browser.Div.Section.Panel.Form.Input, but "Div" does not exist, then we wait for 40-50 seconds to find out whether or not the Alias is a valid Alias.  Since our tests perform this check on every Alias, this can waste a lot of time when our test fails due to missing objects on the screen.

 

Reducing this timeout to 1 second or even 0 seconds would resolve this issue, but many of our tests rely on this timeout being in place.  The simplest solution, we think, is to just modify the script to work around the Auto-wait timeout.

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HKosova
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
9 years ago

Jack,

 

IsSupported = True for stub objects is by design and documented.

 

jack_edwards wrote:

 

The simplest solution, we think, is to just modify the script to work around the Auto-wait timeout.

Yes, that's probably the best way to handle this. Set Options.Run.Timeout to 0 at the beginning of your validation function, and restore the initial value at the end.