LiveViewTest render_click() not patching a link

ashrafhasson

Hello all,

I’m trying to run the liveview update test below

    test "updates branch in listing", %{conn: conn, branch: branch} do
      {:ok, index_live, _html} = live(conn, ~p"/ar/branches")

      assert index_live 
             |> element("#branches-#{branch.id} a", "Edit") 
             |> render_click() =~ "Edit"

      assert_patched(index_live, ~p"/ar/branches/#{branch.id}/edit")

      assert index_live
             |> form("#branch-form", branch: @invalid_attrs)
             |> render_change() =~ "Cannot be empty"
    end

and it appears as if the render_click() call is not causing the edit view to be rendered although manually clicking the Edit element/link works fine when tested manually (in the browser). The test complains that there’s no #branch-form element in the view and that appears to be correct as rendering the view shows the elements listing (index) page.

This test returns the following:

 ** (ArgumentError) expected selector "#branch-form" to return a single element, but got none within:
...

I don’t think I need to run follow_redirect (and that didn’t work anyway) but clearly I’m missing something here . Might someone kindly point me in the right direction with a hint, please?

I’m running this with liveview v1.0.18 I upgraded from v1.0.9 after giving up on making it work with that but it may be something else that I’m doing.

The index.html.heex template with the target element has this:

  <:action :let={{_id, branch}}>
    <div class="sr-only">
      <.link navigate={~p"/#{current_locale()}/branches/#{branch}"}>Show</.link>
    </div>
    <.link patch={~p"/#{current_locale()}/branches/#{branch}/edit"}>Edit</.link>
  </:action>

and attempting to target the element directly with element/2 with something like “#branches-#{branch.id} a:nth-child(2)” yielded the same result.

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jswanner

Just to be clear, are the Edit and Index routes using the same LiveView? If not, you don’t want to be using patch, and instead navigate is what you want.

Is there any async stuff happening that needs to resolve before asserting on presence of elements? If so, render_async can help:

      assert index_live 
             |> element("#branches-#{branch.id} a", "Edit") 
             |> render_click() =~ "Edit"

      render_async(index_live)

      assert index_live
             |> form("#branch-form", branch: @invalid_attrs)
             |> render_change() =~ "Cannot be empty"

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ashrafhasson

@jswanner ah, thanks for pointing that out, that makes sense. Yes, it’s 2 different liveviews. I’ve updated the test to use render_async(index_live) and the link to navigate={…} but the previous assertion now shows rendering the click caused a redirect?

  1) test Index updates branch in listing (MyAppWeb.Subdomain.BranchLiveTest)
     test/myapp_web/live/branch_live_test.exs:86
     ** (FunctionClauseError) no function clause matching in Kernel.=~/2

     The following arguments were given to Kernel.=~/2:
     
         # 1
         {:error, {:live_redirect, %{kind: :push, to: "/ar/branches/1/edit"}}}
     
         # 2
         "Edit"
     
     Attempted function clauses (showing 3 out of 3):
     
         def =~(left, "") when is_binary(left)
         def =~(left, right) when is_binary(left) and is_binary(right)
         def =~(left, right) when is_binary(left)
     
     code: |> render_click() =~ "Edit"

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