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Nightwatch: Can't make dynamic selector in page objects

I can't find a way to make a selector in page objects dynamic. Is there workaround for this problem? 

 module.exports = {
      searchSelect: {
          selector: '//span[contains(.,'+dynamicVar+')]',
          locateStrategy: 'xpath'
      },
}

I tried changing my inserted value with this.globals.arrayGet() directly and etc. Seems that nothing is working. Found another topic from 2016 about this, but no helpful info there.

Solution

  • Not sure if there is a workaround for this, but you can create a function, for example:

    function verifyElementWithText(text){
    browser.expect.element(`//span[contains(.,'+text+')]`).to.be.visible;    
}

    And calling it from your page object:

    browser.page.yourPage().verifyElementWithText('John Doe');