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pkudrys
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3 years ago

How to get xpath from alias object

Hi folks,   Is there a (JavaScript) way to get the xpath from alias object?   Basically, I want to pass a mapped object as a parameter to my coded method. In this method, I need to use that mappe...
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pkudrys
Frequent Contributor
3 years ago

Haha, I already found a solution. Since I didn't find a dedicated method, I used something like this:

 

//get xpath from mapped element
function GetXpathFromAlias(mappedElement) 
{
  const str = mappedElement.Name; // returns something like this "FindElement(\"//parent::div//following-sibling::div[@class='editFormTabs']//*[name()='mat-form-field' or name()='mat-button-toggle' or name()='mat-radio-button' or name()='mat-checkbox' and not(@class='mat-button-toggle-group') and not(@class='ripple')]//*[name()='mat-label' or contains(@class,'toggle-label') or @class='mat-checkbox-label' or @class='mat-radio-label-content' and not (contains(@class,'container')) and not (contains(.,''))]\")"
  const pattern = /\"(\/\/.*?(\')?\])\"/;
  const match = pattern.exec(str);
  if (match) 
  {
    const xpath = match[1];
    return xpath;
  } else 
  {
    Log.Error("XPath not found." + str);
  }
}

 

 Just a little reminder, this method will return xpath only if it starts with '//' and ends with ']'.