Calabash Android No element found for query: textView marked:

Question

I get the error No element found for query: textView marked:'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod temper incididunt'.

It shows up in the console with query("*"), but when I query("textView marked:'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod temper incididunt'") I get [].

My test won't pass but the text shows up in the console...

Is there a character limit or am I missing something?

Answer 1

If it's like all of my experience, you'll want to use:

query "TextView marked:'...'" 

note the capital T on TextView because it's a class

Since I'm guessing the Lorem, ... is text, not id or description, you could use:

query "* text:'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod temper incididunt'" 

I don't believe it should be an issue, but if for some reason marked doesn't accept strings that long, text should

Answer 2

If the class of the view is not TextView but an extension of TextView you have to use:

query("TextView text:'...'")

A better approach would be to use * instead of TextView - the test won't fail even if the class of the field changes:

query("* text:'...'")

An even better approach would be to use id instead of text:

query("* id:'lorem_ipsum_view'")