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selecting a list of elements via java driver
joshuacronemeyer
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My second question of the day! 
I am using sahi via the Twist testing tool. So I'm using the Java driver. Is there a good way to select multiple elements? I was surprised that the div and byClassName browser element selectors only return the first match. I would expect that I would be returned a List of ElementStubs that I could then filter or count, etc.
I have worked around this for now by using a while loop and the square bracket notation, here is an example of what i mean:
in this case the index variable equals the number of divs that are of class "my-class". Is there a better way to achieve this? For objects with multiple classes I have been forced to use xpath, and I've got performance concerns, especially on IE. Thanks!
I am using sahi via the Twist testing tool. So I'm using the Java driver. Is there a good way to select multiple elements? I was surprised that the div and byClassName browser element selectors only return the first match. I would expect that I would be returned a List of ElementStubs that I could then filter or count, etc.I have worked around this for now by using a while loop and the square bracket notation, here is an example of what i mean:
index = 0;
while(browser.div("my-class[" + index + "]").exists()){
index++;
}
in this case the index variable equals the number of divs that are of class "my-class". Is there a better way to achieve this? For objects with multiple classes I have been forced to use xpath, and I've got performance concerns, especially on IE. Thanks!
Comments
browser.fetch("document.getElementsByClassName('my-class').length");
None of the Sahi APIs returns a list right now. We are adding a "collect" method which works something like
browser.collect("div", "sahi_identifier/js function") which will return a list of elementstubs. This is not available in the current version of Sahi that comes with Twist.
Regards,
Narayan
I don't think IE supports getEelemntsByClassName. What do you recommend in that case?