Verify Element Present giving warning even if the element is not present

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Hello Team,

I have below piece of code which uses Verify Element Present to see if the element is present then do this else do this

if (WebUI.verifyElementPresent(findTestObject('3_Page_PDP/Price_Before_Sale'), 0, FailureHandling.OPTIONAL)) 

{
    pdp_product_price_1 = WebUI.getText(findTestObject('3_Page_PDP/Price_After_Sale'), FailureHandling.STOP_ON_FAILURE).replace(
        '$', '')

     pdp_product_price = new BigDecimal(pdp_product_price_1)

    WebUI.println('The Price of Product on PDP page is : ' + pdp_product_price)
} 

else 

{
    pdp_product_price_1 = WebUI.getText(findTestObject('3_Page_PDP/PDP_Product_Price_No_Sale')).replace('$', '')

    pdp_product_price = new BigDecimal(pdp_product_price_1)

    WebUI.println('The Price of Product on PDP page is : ' + pdp_product_price)
}

But whenever the page doesn’t have Price_Before_Sale element the code is still trying to find the element for about 30 seconds and then give warning about that.

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You invoke this:

This 1 line does try to find the element for about 30 seconds and then give warning about that. After emitting warning message, WebUI.verifyElementPresent() returns boolean value.

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Are you questioning about timeout = 0 you specified, but in fact it waits for 30 seconds?

Possibly timeout = 0 is not effective.

But you can try timeout = 1? Should be good enough.

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The source code of WebUI.verifyElementPresent is avaliable at

Starting from there, you can spot where the timeout value is evaluated. See

Line #729:

            float timeCount = 0;
            long miliseconds = System.currentTimeMillis();
            while (timeCount < timeOut) {
                try {
                    List<WebElement> webElements = null;
                    if (objectInsideShadowDom) {
                        webElements = doFindElementsInsideShadowDom(testObject, timeOut, webDriver, cssLocator,
                                parentObject, shadowRootElement);
                        return webElements;
                    } else {
                        webElements = webDriver.findElements(defaultLocator);
                        if (webElements != null && webElements.size() > 0) {
                            logger.logDebug(MessageFormat.format(
                                    StringConstants.KW_LOG_INFO_FINDING_WEB_ELEMENT_W_ID_SUCCESS, webElements.size(),
                                    testObject.getObjectId(), defaultLocator.toString(), timeOut));
                            return webElements;
                        }
                    }
                } catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
                    // not found element yet, moving on
                }
                timeCount += ((System.currentTimeMillis() - miliseconds) / 1000);
                Thread.sleep(500);
                timeCount += 0.5;
                miliseconds = System.currentTimeMillis();
            }

If you specify timeout = 0, then while (timeCount < timeOut) will immediately quit. Therefore specifying timeout = 0 makes no effect.

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Hello @kazurayam

I tried your solution and changed the timeout to 1 and it worked. But it still gives the warning that object not found.

Its an if statement and I tested it on a page where the same object was not there. Sorry I am new to this test automation and maybe it is dumb question.

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You can just ignore the message.

Alternatively if you don’t want to wait at all, then you should use other keyword. For example

def text = WebUI.getText(findTestObject('3_Page_PDP/Price_Before_Sale'), FailureHandling.OPTIONAL)
if (text != null && text.length > 0) {
    ...
} else {
    ....
}

I would prefer using verifyElementPresent with appropriate secons of timeout while I would ignore the message.

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Thanks @kazurayam

I will go with your suggestion and use verifyElementPresent

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waitForElementPresent might be an alternative.
https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/webui-wait-for-element-present.html

This would not emit any message when the element is found not present.

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