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I have searched on Google and the SO site and I get answers for JAVA but do not seem to get answers for node.js


I have a web app that takes time to load. I would like the selenium program to wait till the page is loaded and then perform some actions.


My current code is as follows


//dependencies
var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver'),
util = require('util'),
_ = require('underscore');

var driver = new webdriver.Builder().withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome()).build();
var branchName = _.isUndefined(process.argv[3]) ? 'branch' : process.argv[3],
hostName = _.isUndefined(process.argv[2]) ? 'localhost' : process.argv[2],
appTmpl = 'http://%s/%s',
username = 'xxxx',
password = 'xxxx';
var appUrl = util.format(appTmpl, hostName, branchName);

driver.get(appUrl);
driver.findElement(webdriver.By.name("username")).sendKeys(username);
driver.findElement(webdriver.By.name("password")).sendKeys(password);
driver.findElement(webdriver.By.name("login_button")).click();
driver.quit();

The error I get is:


    C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibwebdriverpromise.js:1643
throw error;
^
NoSuchElementError: no such element
(Session info: chrome=37.0.2062.103)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.10.267521,platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86_64)
at new bot.Error (C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibatomserror.js:109:18)
at Object.bot.response.checkResponse (C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibatomsresponse.js:106:9)
at C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibwebdriverwebdriver.js:277:20
at C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibgoogbase.js:1243:15
at webdriver.promise.ControlFlow.runInNewFrame_ (C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibwebdriverpromise.js:1539:20)
at notify (C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibwebdriverpromise.js:362:12)
at notifyAll (C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibwebdriverpromise.js:331:7)
at resolve (C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibwebdriverpromise.js:309:7)
at fulfill (C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibwebdriverpromise.js:429:5)
at C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibwebdriverpromise.js:1406:10
==== async task ====
WebDriver.findElement(By.name("username"))
at webdriver.WebDriver.schedule (C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibwebdriverwebdriver.js:268:15)
at webdriver.WebDriver.findElement (C:Workstudyseleniumnode_modulesselenium-webdriverlibwebdriverwebdriver.js:711:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:Workstudyseleniumtest.js:15:8)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
at startup (node.js:119:16)

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43

I stumbled upon an answer to my question



So to wait for an element to appear we have to:



driver.wait(function () {
return driver.isElementPresent(webdriver.By.name(username));
}, timeout);

[#69517] Sunday, September 7, 2014, 10 Years  [reply] [flag answer]
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