[QA] upstream bug reported for page_object Ruby gem

[Chris McMahon]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:21 PM, S Page <spage at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Flow's post input fields morph from an input text field to a textarea upon
> click. I assumed that was why we use "text_field", as it works with either.
>
> I think your test is accessing the topic title (name="topiclist_topic"),
> which continues to be an input text field after clicking, so textarea won't
> work.
>

Yes, I updated some other tests about "Reason for
hiding/suppressing/whatever" for the morphing text fields yesterday.  In
those cases the input had no type at all assigned, so page_object
(correctly) saw it as a "button".

But in this case, something has gone subtly weird in the page_object
internals.  "text_field" is actually deprecated, and "textarea" should
identify any sort of text input.  In other words, whether right or wrong,
the behavior of these locators in page_object should be the same and it's
not.
-Chris


>
> We could make an intermediate Flow step definition
>   When I enter "Foo" in morphing |field_name|
>
> that turns into
>   step I click in the <input field element>
>   and it becomes a <textarea element>
>   and I send_keys "My reply here" in the <textarea element>
>
> but I'm not sure how in Ruby/Watir
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> so I noticed last week that the Flow builds were getting deprecation
>> warnings from the test framework saying  "Locating textareas with
>> '#text_field' is deprecated. Please, use '#textarea' method instead."
>>
>> I don't like being deprecated, but upon updating the test, to my
>> surprise, the page_object gem could no longer see the element.
>>
>> I filed an upstream bug for this:
>> https://github.com/cheezy/page-object/issues/248
>>
>> In the meantime, let's keep using the text_field locator as long as it
>> keeps working for us.
>>
>
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