Why is getAttribute returning null in this scenario?

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I’m trying to use the getAttribute method to get an attribute of an object however the value coming back is null. The data-tileversion attribute is a custom attribute for our application and contains a version number. I’m able to work around this by using the value attribute and using substring to extract the version number from the string as it contains a tile code and the tile version. The data-tileversion attribute only contains the version number and would be more robust than relying on substring in the event the substring index changes. How can I get the value of the data-tileversion attribute?

Example:

What my question is in reference to:
HTML of Select Option:
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getAttribute returns null
actualVersion = WebUI.getAttribute(findTestObject('Object Repository/Web/Management Portal/HomeScreen/Switcher/select_--Select an unauthenticated Home Screen Tile'), 'data-tileversion')

Workaround works and returns the value attribute of the option currently set :
actualVersion = WebUI.getAttribute(findTestObject('Object Repository/Web/Management Portal/HomeScreen/Switcher/select_--Select an unauthenticated Home Screen Tile'), 'value')

However the string contains some extra I don’t care about and the code above returns:

342333A4-B8F7-49AF-AC44-D89CBCD7DD0F~3.3.0

I’m then using substring to return only the version number from the string to compare against the expected version number:

WebUI.verifyNotMatch(actualVersion.substring(37), hsVersion, false)

returns: 3.3.0

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It could be that your pathway is to your <select> object,
select_--Select an unauthenticated Home Screen Tile
and not to one of the drop-down <option> attributes and therefore is getting the return of attribute there.
I think you will have to play with the Selenium “select” statement to delve more into your attribute snag. Or, get all the <option>s into a List<WebElement> and then parse the one you want and get its attribute there.

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