selenium js webdriver.By

Question

I am having an issue with selenium js

I have created my components in json like:

"usernameInputField": {
    "selector": {
      "xpath": "//*[@id='username']"
    }
  }

and I am calling webdriver :

var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');

using the data like this:

console.log(webdriver.By.xpath("//*[@id='username']"));

it calls correctly

however when I try to run console.log(webdriver.By(usernameInputField.selector));

I get an error (TypeError: Class constructors cannot be invoked without 'new')

what am I doing wrong here?

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-20 00:28:22Z

1

You can use regular findElement directly without having to use the By "class":

driver.findElement(usernameInputField.selector);

answered Mar 20, 2016 at 0:28

alecxe

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thankyou I just realized I misread the documentation, I just assumed that everything to select components would need to be done by the webdriver