Unable to fetch children from desktop using Xpath

[venkat2048]

Hi,

@timotiusmargo
I'm trying to get root desktop session and identify opened windows and written code as shown below:

        DesiredCapabilities DC = new DesiredCapabilities();
        DC.SetCapability("platFormName", "Windows");
        DC.SetCapability("app", "Root");
        DC.SetCapability("deviceName", "WindowsPC");
      
        session = new WindowsDriver<WindowsElement>(new Uri("http://127.0.0.1:4723"), DC);

        //For Line below it returns with windows list whose classname is 'Window'
        var openWindows = session.FindElementsByClassName("Window");

        Actual: //For Line below it returns NULL (Issue)
        openWindows = session.FindElementsByXPath("//*"); 

Expected: It should return all children under desktop

Please find the screenshots below:

Image1: Issue

Image2: Works with ClassName

[timotiusmargo]

Hi @venkat2048,

Thanks for bringing it up. There is a known bug that causes the XPath element search to terminate early when it encounters duplicate runtimeId. For the time being you will need to use non XPath elements search until the issue is fixed.

[timotiusmargo]

Hi @venkat2048,

In WinAppDriver v1.1.1 release, we properly handle the exception scenario where distinct elements share the same runtimeId. This issue prematurely terminate XPath element search in previous releases. Would you please give it a try?

[shoaibmansoor]

@timotiusmargo I am able to reproduce it with v1.2.1 as well.

I can get page_source correctly and elements by other methods but find_elements_by_xpath doesn't work

Could you please look into this?