rodrigozc

Select an option using Hound

Hello everyone,

I’m trying to automating navigation using Hound, but I’m having some troubles with select/option elements and how to interact with them.

For instance, I tried in different ways to select an option from the site “https://www.imovelweb.com.br/.”

I tried the solution below but didn’t work.

https://github.com/HashNuke/hound/issues/72#issuecomment-178071219

I’m using the selenium driver with the chrome browser.

$ brew install selenium-server-standalone
$ selenium-server -port 4444

use Mix.Config

config :hound,
  driver: "selenium",
  browser: "chrome"

I tried to select in the following ways:

def search() do
    Hound.start_session()

    navigate_to(@url)

    find_element(:css, "#operationType option[value='1']")
    |> click

    #take_screenshot()

  rescue
    e ->
      IO.inspect(e)
      :notfound
  after
    Hound.end_session
  end

Error

%RuntimeError{
  message: "element not interactable: Element is not currently visible and may not be manipulated\n  (Session info: chrome=79.0.3945.88)\nBuild info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:53'\nSystem info: host: 'Rodrigos-MacBook-Pro.local', ip: '2804:14c:4a:9f9d:1591:2820:1fe7:d763', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.15.2', java.version: '1.8.0_131'\nDriver info: driver.version: unknown"
}

def search() do
    Hound.start_session()

    navigate_to(@url)

    find_element(:css, "#operationType")
    |> find_within_element(:css, "option[value='1']")
    |> click

    #take_screenshot()

  rescue
    e ->
      IO.inspect(e)
      :notfound
  after
    Hound.end_session
  end

Error

%RuntimeError{
  message: "element not interactable: Element is not currently visible and may not be manipulated\n  (Session info: chrome=79.0.3945.88)\nBuild info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:53'\nSystem info: host: 'Rodrigos-MacBook-Pro.local', ip: '2804:14c:4a:9f9d:1591:2820:1fe7:d763', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.15.2', java.version: '1.8.0_131'\nDriver info: driver.version: unknown"
}

I was wondering if I have to click on the select element before to show the options and then click on the chosen option, but when I tried to click on the select element I got another error.

def search() do
    Hound.start_session()

    navigate_to(@url)

    find_element(:css, "#operationType")
    |> click

    #take_screenshot()

  rescue
    e ->
      IO.inspect(e)
      :notfound
  after
    Hound.end_session
  end

Error

%RuntimeError{
  message: "element not interactable\n  (Session info: chrome=79.0.3945.88)\nBuild info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:53'\nSystem info: host: 'Rodrigos-MacBook-Pro.local', ip: '2804:14c:4a:9f9d:1591:2820:1fe7:d763', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.15.2', java.version: '1.8.0_131'\nDriver info: driver.version: unknown"
}

Thanks!

9 comments

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2020-01-08 11:39:12 UTC

First Post!

wolfiton

I don’t see this in your code

use Hound.Helpers
hound_session()

This is what I am using to test by following this book https://shankardevy.com/phoenix-inside-out-mpf/ . But it uses phantomjs

Also if you use Linux install phantomjs like this Problem with acceptance test in hound not starting server on port 4001

Update found this in my tests, it might be similar with what you need:

find_element(:css, "#registration_residence_area option[value='Area 1']")
    |> click

Post #2

Last Post!

wolfiton

OK then how about writing your select like this:

<%= select f, :category_id, Enum.map(@categories, &{&1.name, &1.id}), prompt: "Choose a category" %>

If this doesn’t work either then try to create a minimal example only with a slect and test hound on that to see if that works.
If it does then you most certenly have a problem in your actual code or a bug.

Post #10