We use google chrome driver in our selenium tests (language clojure).
(-> driver
(try
(.findElement (By/id "my-text-input"))
(catch Exception ex
(log/errorf ex " error caught!!"))))
However, I got the error
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching field found: findElement for class org.openqa.selenium.By$ById
at clojure.lang.Reflector.getInstanceField(Reflector.java:271)
at clojure.lang.Reflector.invokeNoArgInstanceMember(Reflector.java:315)
at com.my.company$connect$fn__15343.invoke(selenium.clj:50)
at com.my.company.selenium$connect.invokeStatic(selenium.clj:49)
at com.my.company.selenium$connect.invoke(selenium.clj:29)
Note that this issue seems only occur on Mac chips as far as I know, cause my teammates who got a intel processor doesn't see the error.
The code doesn't make much sense.
The -> threading macro doesn't care what the contents of the next form - it just puts its arguments into each other, one by one. So it doesn't care that you use (try (...)) and want to put that driver inside those (...) - it will still put it at the second position so that it becomes (try driver (...)).
That means that you end up calling (.findElement ...) directly on the result of (By/id ...), and that's why you see that error.
You need to change the code so that it becomes (.findElement driver ...).