If I use "Inspect Element" on FireFox, I see this:
<span class="stock-number-value ng-binding">17109 </span>
When I use driver.getSource(), that 17109 is replaced by "vehicle.attributes.stockNumber".
My main goal is to use the driver to get whatever value is stored by vehicle.attributes.stockNumber, but I can't figure out how to get the contents of that variable using Selenium.
I suspect you are getting the source too early in the process while the angular is not yet ready and the bindings are not yet data-feeded. I'd use a custom wait condition function to wait for the "stock" to have a numeric value:
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, 510);
WebElement stock = wait.until(waitForStock(By.cssSelector(".stock-number-value")));
System.out.println(stock.getText());
where waitForStock is something along these lines:
public static ExpectedCondition<Boolean> waitForStock(final By locator) {
return new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
@Override
public Boolean apply(WebDriver driver) {
try {
WebElement elm = driver.findElement(locator);
return elm.getText().trim().matches("[0-9]+");
} catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
return false;
} catch (StaleElementReferenceException e) {
return false;
}
}
@Override
public String toString() {
return "stock is not yet loaded";
}
};
}
