Protractor: get value of binding with xpath

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23159734

Question

If I have html like this:

<body>
    <div id="menu">
       <div id="button"> {{ someBinding }} </div>
    </div>
</body>

and I have a statement in protractor like this:

ptor.findElement(By.xpath("/body/div[@id='menu']/div[@id='button']"));

What would I use to get the value of {{someBinding}}? It seems that protractor tries to compare the value with the binding name. So if I expect {{someBinding}} to say "Hello World" it throws an error saying that 

Expected: {{someBinding}} to equal 'Hello World'
Was it helpful?

Solution 2

I've found the solution if anyone else is looking for it. Adding to @rjferguson21 's answer, the expect line should look like this:

expect(el.evaluate("someBinding")).toBe("Hello World");

I think that was an update in Protractor.

OTHER TIPS

I think you need to call .getText() on the element.

el = ptor.findElement(By.xpath("/body/div[@id='menu']/div[@id='button']"))

so your entire statement would be:

expect(el.getText()).toBe('Hello World');

I would also consider using a different locator, such as the CSS locator if you are using ids, or have a look at the binding locator.

https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/api.md#webdriverwebelementprototypegettext https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/api.md#protractorbyprototypebinding

Note that you don't have to use xpath selection for this. Try binding locator:

var el = element(By.binding('someBinding'));
expect(el.getText()).toBe('Hello World');
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