Finding Adapter for an Element

atom · Post by **atom** » Thu May 30, 2013 4:06 pm

Hiya.

I am building a keyword "action" based framework that will allow testers to write tests in syntax of:

<action> <ranorex xpath> <additional data>

e.g. SET <xpath of a text box> HELLO

To implement this the code behind the action will use the xpath to find the control as a Ranorex.Element
It then needs to convert that in this case to a Ranorex.Text class
What is the best way to do this, is it doing ?

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public void set_method(string xpath, string data) {

  var element = Ranorex.Host.Local.Find<Ranorex.Element>(xpath);
  var text = new Ranorex.Text(element)
  text.TextValue = data;

}

This seems somewhat cumbersome, what I'd like to do is get a list of "supported" adapters for a specific element... is that possible?

Cheers.

Post by **Support Team** » Fri May 31, 2013 8:25 pm

atom wrote:What is the best way to do this, is it doing ?

IMHO for such an approach you would not need adapters at all. Why not just stick to the generic Element class and its Get/SetPropertyValue and InvokeAction methods?

Ranorex Spy shows all the attributes an element provides. The "SET" keyword could have another argument specifying the attribute to set (just like the Ranorex Recorder "Set Value" action):

var element = Host.Local.FindSingle(xpath);
element.SetAttributeValue("text", data);

atom wrote:what I'd like to do is get a list of "supported" adapters for a specific element

If you still need that functionality, have a look at the Element.Capabilities property. It lists all the capabilities/adapters an element supports.

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team

atom · Post by **atom** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 2:21 pm

Thanks!
Was looking for some old documentation called "Using the element method" that i seem to remember from a version 2! But couldnt find it...

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