NAME

Selenium::Waiter - Provides a utility wait_until function

VERSION

version 1.35

SYNOPSIS

    use Selenium::Waiter qw/wait_until/;
    my $d = Selenium::Remote::Driver->new;

    my $div = wait_until { $d->find_element('div', 'css') };

FUNCTIONS

wait_until

Exported by default, it takes a BLOCK (required) and optionally a hash of configuration params. It uses a prototype to take its arguments, so usage looks look like:

    use Selenium::Waiter;
    my $div = wait_until { $driver->find_element('div', 'css') };

The above snippet will search for css=div for thirty seconds; if it ever finds the element, it will immediately return. More generally, Once the BLOCK returns anything truthy, the wait_until will stop evaluating and the return of the BLOCK will be returned to you. If the BLOCK never returns a truthy value, we'll wait until the elapsed time has increased past the timeout and then return an empty string ''.

Achtung! Please make sure that the BLOCK you pass in can be executed in a timely fashion. For Webdriver, that means that you should set the appropriate implicit_wait timeout low (a second or less!) so that we can rerun the assert sub repeatedly. We don't do anything fancy behind the scenes: we just execute the BLOCK you pass in and sleep between iterations. If your BLOCK actively blocks for thirty seconds, like a find_element would do with an implicit_wait of 30 seconds, we won't be able to help you at all - that blocking behavior is on the webdriver server side, and is out of our control. We'd run one iteration, get blocked for thirty seconds, and return control to you at that point.

Dying

PLEASE check the return value before proceeding, as we unwisely suppress any attempts your BLOCK may make to die or croak. The BLOCK you pass is called in a "try" in Try::Tiny, and if any of the invocations of your function throw and the BLOCK never becomes true, we'll carp exactly once at the end immediately before returning false. We overwrite the death message from each iteration, so at the end, you'll only see the most recent death message.

    # warns once after thirty seconds: "kept from dying";
    wait_until { die 'kept from dying' };

The output of dies from each iteration can be exposed if you wish to see the massacre:

    # carps: "kept from dying" once a second for thirty seconds
    wait_until { die 'kept from dying' } debug => 1;

Timeouts and Intervals

You can also customize the timeout, and/or the retry interval between iterations.

    # prints hi three four times at 0, 3, 6, and 9 seconds
    wait_until { print 'hi'; '' } timeout => 10, interval => 3;

SEE ALSO

Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module.

• Selenium::Remote::Driver

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/teodesian/Selenium-Remote-Driver/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHORS

Current Maintainers:

• Daniel Gempesaw <gempesaw@gmail.com>

• Emmanuel Peroumalnaïk <peroumalnaik.emmanuel@gmail.com>

Previous maintainers:

• Luke Closs <cpan@5thplane.com>

• Mark Stosberg <mark@stosberg.com>

Original authors:

• Aditya Ivaturi <ivaturi@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Aditya Ivaturi, Gordon Child

Copyright (c) 2014-2017 Daniel Gempesaw

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

cpanm Selenium::Remote::Driver

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Selenium::Remote::Driver