I might be misunderstanding the question, but I do not believe you need to create a method for what you want. It can all be done using the page object accessors.
Say we have the following page (I matched this to your accessors, though it seems unlikely that all links would have the same id):
<html>
<body>
<a id="3" href="#">1</a>
<ul id="test">
<li><a id="3" href="#">2</a></li>
<li><a id="3" href="#">3</a></li>
<li><a id="3" href="#">4</a></li>
</ul>
<a id="3" href="#">5</a>
</body>
</html>
As you did, you could define the list with the accessor:
unordered_list(:list, id: 'test')
To get the links with id 3, but are only within the list, you could:
- Define the links as a collection - ie use
links
instead oflink
. - Use a block to locate the elements. This would allow you to consider the element nesting - ie locate links within the list element.
This would be done with:
links(:test_link){ list_element.link_elements(:id => '3') }
All together, your page object would be:
class MyPage
include PageObject
unordered_list(:list, id: 'test')
links(:test_link){ list_element.link_elements(:id => '3') }
end
To find the number of links, you would access the element collection and check its length.
browser = Watir::Browser.new
browser.goto('your_test_page.htm')
page = MyPage.new(browser)
puts page.test_link_elements.length
#=> 3