I am not sure if this is the correct area for this post , so let me know if I need to move it. I am using RF for testing, Selenium Library and when needed Javascript ( I am beginning to learn).
My goal is to compare two date values. One value is Current Date and the other value is a date that is injected into the DOM when user changes a value. We are using angular for UI. The current code fails because it is comparing current date to //input[@ng-reflect-value which produces an end result of NULL so the method fails.
I do not have to use Javascript but it seems that was the best solution.
Work Date should be today
Click Element ${WORKDATE}
${date}= Get Current Date
${workdate}= Execute Javascript document.getElementById("class") **//input[@ng-reflect-value]**;
Should Be Equal ${date} ${workdate}
The date underlined below is not static and will change when a user changes another elements (Work Date) value in the UI. I do not want to capture the time, just the date.
Not being familiar with ng-reflect-value or any ng-reflect type attributes, I duck duck go’ed it (google’d it) to find out what the html element you are hitting would look like, I found an example but also noted there was a warning:
Based on your test case and the html from the link above, I think what you want is Get Element Attribute
Probably something like this:
${workdate}= Get Element Attribute //input[@ng-reflect-value] ng-reflect-value
I think the problem you’re encountering is that document.getElementById is returning a dom object to the browser and then the browser not being able to return an object and not having a default formatter is returning None rather than a string representation of the object.
You Should Be Equal is failing as expected as ${workdate} is None which isn’t a date or formatted date string.
I will test your suggestion. I do have a related issue that I hope someone can assist, which is why I am using this same post.
In order to get a current date without time I decided to use this code:
Execute Javascript new Date().toLocaleDateString()
When the method is run in console, I get a correct return:
I have two issues to resolve: I want to store the returned date in a variable but have not figured out how to do this and when this method is run through Robot Framework the return is NONE and not the expected output of the date as seen in the above image.
I gather this question relates to the ${date}= Get Current Date line from your original question?
It looks like you are missing the return for the javascript:
${mydate}= Execute Javascript return New Date().toLocalDateString()
I would suggest you stick with robot framework to create the date that you want to compare against, it’ll probably be a little faster as it only requires builtin keywords, plus you can then reuse the keyword on other projects that don’t use selenium
Something like this:
*** Keywords ***
Get Current Date
@{darr}= Get Time year month day
${date}= Set Variable ${darr}[2]/${darr}[1]/${darr}[0]
[Return] ${date}
