Check if element exists (error)

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I try to check if an element does exist on the page and if not an error message is printed:

if(WebUI.waitForElementPresent(to, 3, FailureHandling.OPTIONAL)==false){     KeywordUtil.markFailedAndStop(subtopic+' '+item+' option not available. (attribute given: '+detail+' '+attribute+')')}

However the test does not stop, even if the TestObject ‘to’ is not present, because of the following:

10-01-2018 01:18:50 PM - [INFO]   - Finding web element with id: 'Object Repository/bm/pkg/pkgselected' located by 'By.xpath: //*[@class='ng-scope selected']//div[@class='pack S0233']' in '10' second(s)10-01-2018 01:19:00 PM - [INFO]   - Web element found by trial and error method is not used because we can't guarantee it reflects the intended element.10-01-2018 01:19:00 PM - [FAILED] - Web element with id: 'Object Repository/bm/pkg/pkgselected' located by 'By.xpath: //*[@class='ng-scope selected']//div[@class='pack S0233']' not found10-01-2018 01:19:00 PM - [FAILED] - Unable to verify object 'Object Repository/bm/pkg/pkgselected' is visible (Root cause: Web element with id: 'Object Repository/bm/pkg/pkgselected' located by 'By.xpath: //*[@class='ng-scope selected']//div[@class='pack S0233']' not found)

I am not sure if this error is already known, but does anyone know workaround for checking an elements existence ?

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hello,
1st - shortcut for if() statement

if(!WebUI.waitForElementPresent(to, 3, FailureHandling.OPTIONAL)){
     KeywordUtil.markFailedAndStop(subtopic+' '+item+' option not available. (attribute given: '+detail+' '+attribute+')')
}

2nd
try to check for elements in class separatly:

//*[@scope selected']//div[contains(@class,'pack') and contains(@class,'S0233')]
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Hi,
thank you for the shortcut, I will use it this way

I used your suggestion and sepereated it but the error still appears.

10-01-2018 02:16:07 PM - [INFO]   - Finding web element with id: 'Object Repository/bm/pkg/pkgselected' located by 'By.xpath: //*[@class='ng-scope selected']//div[contains(@class,'pack') and contains(@class,'S0233')]' in '10' second(s)10-01-2018 02:16:17 PM - [INFO]   - Web element found by trial and error method is not used because we can't guarantee it reflects the intended element.
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can you please post html that contains element you want to use

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But I think you miss the point, i want to check if an element exists, even if it does not.

At this point the class ‘ng-scope’ is from an option that can be selected. When selected it changes to ‘ng-scope selected’.

So I try to to check if the option is selected with the following command:

if(WebUI.waitForElementPresent(to, 3, FailureHandling.OPTIONAL)==false){     KeywordUtil.markFailedAndStop(subtopic+' '+item+' option not available. (attribute given: '+detail+' '+attribute+')')}

Where TestObject ‘to’ is: //*[@class=‘ng-scope selected’]//div[contains(@class,‘pack’) and contains(@class,‘S0233’)]

So if it does not find the ‘ng-scope selected’ class I can say the option is not selected/available.

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now i think i get it …
my guess: data-h5vco-panel-package is unique enough to identify TO
then define xpath of TO as //div[(at)data-h5vco-panel-package] for any TO you can get all attributes by calling WebUI.getAttribute( TO, ‘class’) function and then process attributes that are returned
due to forum bug, repace ‘(at)’ with ‘@’

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Thank you, I will try that and comment here how it worked out :slight_smile:

Edit: Works perfectly for all cases so far; can be closed