[UITest 0.7.2 & Forms 1.4.1] Get value from switches?

MartinMan

I have an application with a short setup first time you start the application. In this setup you are able to enable or disable Insights with a switch.
This choise can later be changed in a Settings menu, where the switch will have the value originaly set.

However i'm unable to read the value in my UI tests. When I query or use tree to inspect the element, it's identical if it's on or off.

Is there any way to check the value of a switch?

prashantvc

The Switch control extends the CompoundButton and it has isChecked method that we can invoke to get the Switch control state, Here is the example code:

    //Assuming initial value is off
    app.Tap (c => c.Class ("Switch"));
    var switchValue = app.Query (c => c.Class ("Switch").Invoke ("isChecked").Value<bool> ()).First ();
    Assert.IsTrue (switchValue, "Switch is not on");

prashantvc

The Switch control extends the CompoundButton and it has isChecked method that we can invoke to get the Switch control state, Here is the example code:

    //Assuming initial value is off
    app.Tap (c => c.Class ("Switch"));
    var switchValue = app.Query (c => c.Class ("Switch").Invoke ("isChecked").Value<bool> ()).First ();
    Assert.IsTrue (switchValue, "Switch is not on");

Caitlin

This was very helpful. I would just like to add that you can also use
c => c.Marked("YourStyleID")
instead of
c => c.Class("Switch")
if that is more useful for you.

JohnHardman

@prashantvc - Many thanks for that. One follow-on question - if you had multiple Switch views on a page, and wanted to get them all to a known state (let's say we want them all set to off), how would you do that?

I can identify them individually and change their state, but I feel like there must be a simpler way, using linq.

Many thanks,

John H.

JohnHardman

It seems that using isChecked only works on Android. For iOS, use "isOn" which returns an int (1 or 0) rather than a bool.

Regards,

John H.

pranartdechpokket

I use library named "FormsTest" (https://github.com/pranart/FormsTest)
This library will let you get almost every property value from Xamarin.Forms Controls.