wait plugin is not retrying to find element if the locator is not there on screen

[sankethsunkad]

configurations : element-wait@3.0.2 [installed (npm)]

element wait plugin doesnt retry to find element, it tries once and if the element is not present it doesnt retry to find the element

server config 👇 "server": { "keep-alive-timeout": 800, "use-plugins": ["device-farm","element-wait"], "port": 4444, "plugin": { "element-wait": { "timeout": 20000, "intervalBetweenAttempts": 500 }, "device-farm": { "platform": "both" }, "appium-dashboard": { "dashboard:enableLiveVideo": false, "dashboard:enableVideoRecording": false } },

error log 👇 Plugin element-wait is now handling cmd 'findElement'

• Waiting to find element with id strategy for incomeCheckbox selector [AxiosError: Request failed with status code 404] { code: 'ERR_BAD_REQUEST', config: { transitional: { silentJSONParsing: true, forcedJSONParsing: true, clarifyTimeoutError: false }, adapter: [Function: httpAdapter], transformRequest: [ [Function: transformRequest] ], transformResponse: [ [Function: transformResponse] ], timeout: 0, xsrfCookieName: 'XSRF-TOKEN', xsrfHeaderName: 'X-XSRF-TOKEN', maxContentLength: -1, maxBodyLength: -1, env: { FormData: [Function] }, validateStatus: [Function: validateStatus], headers: { Accept: 'application/json, text/plain, /', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'User-Agent': 'axios/0.27.2', 'Content-Length': 75 }, method: 'post', url: 'http://127.0.0.1:57415/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element', data: '{"strategy":"id","selector":"incomeCheckbox","context":"","multiple":false}' }, request: <ref 1> ClientRequest { _events: [Object: null prototype] { abort: [Function (anonymous)], aborted: [Function (anonymous)], connect: [Function (anonymous)], error: [Function (anonymous)], socket: [Function (anonymous)], timeout: [Function (anonymous)], finish: [Function: requestOnFinish] }, _eventsCount: 7, _maxListeners: undefined, outputData: [], outputSize: 0, writable: true, destroyed: true, _last: false, chunkedEncoding: false, shouldKeepAlive: true, maxRequestsOnConnectionReached: false, _defaultKeepAlive: true, useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true, sendDate: false, _removedConnection: false, _removedContLen: false, _removedTE: false, strictContentLength: false, _contentLength: 75, _hasBody: true, _trailer: '', finished: true, _headerSent: true, _closed: true, socket: Socket { connecting: false, _hadError: false, _parent: null, _host: null, _closeAfterHandlingError: false, _events: [Object], _readableState: [ReadableState], _writableState: [WritableState], allowHalfOpen: false, _maxListeners: undefined, _eventsCount: 6, _sockname: null, _pendingData: null, _pendingEncoding: '', server: null, _server: null, timeout: 5000, parser: null, _httpMessage: null, [Symbol(timeout)]: Timeout { _idleTimeout: 5000, _idlePrev: [TimersList], _idleNext: [TimersList], _idleStart: 104480, _onTimeout: [Function: bound ], _timerArgs: undefined, _repeat: null, _destroyed: false, }, }, _header: 'POST /session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element HTTP/1.1\r\n' + 'Accept: application/json, text/plain, /\r\n' + 'Content-Type: application/json\r\n' + 'User-Agent: axios/0.27.2\r\n' + 'Content-Length: 75\r\n' + 'Host: 127.0.0.1:57415\r\n' + 'Connection: keep-alive\r\n' + '\r\n', _keepAliveTimeout: 0, _onPendingData: [Function: nop], agent: Agent { _events: [Object: null prototype], _eventsCount: 2, _maxListeners: undefined, defaultPort: 80, protocol: 'http:', options: [Object: null prototype], requests: [Object: null prototype] {}, sockets: [Object: null prototype] {}, freeSockets: [Object: null prototype], keepAliveMsecs: 1000, keepAlive: true, maxSockets: Infinity, maxFreeSockets: 256, scheduling: 'lifo', maxTotalSockets: Infinity, totalSocketCount: 1, }, socketPath: undefined, method: 'POST', maxHeaderSize: undefined, insecureHTTPParser: undefined, joinDuplicateHeaders: undefined, path: '/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element', _ended: true, res: IncomingMessage { _events: [Object], _readableState: [ReadableState], _maxListeners: undefined, socket: null, httpVersionMajor: 1, httpVersionMinor: 1, httpVersion: '1.1', complete: true, rawHeaders: [Array], rawTrailers: [], joinDuplicateHeaders: undefined, aborted: false, upgrade: false, url: '', method: null, statusCode: 404, statusMessage: 'Not Found', client: [Socket], _consuming: false, _dumped: false, req: [Circular 1], _eventsCount: 4, responseUrl: 'http://127.0.0.1:57415/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element', redirects: [], }, aborted: false, timeoutCb: null, upgradeOrConnect: false, parser: null, maxHeadersCount: null, reusedSocket: true, host: '127.0.0.1', protocol: 'http:', _redirectable: Writable { _events: [Object], _writableState: [WritableState], _maxListeners: undefined, _options: [Object], _ended: true, _ending: true, _redirectCount: 0, _redirects: [], _requestBodyLength: 75, _requestBodyBuffers: [], _eventsCount: 3, _onNativeResponse: [Function (anonymous)], _currentRequest: [Circular 1], _currentUrl: 'http://127.0.0.1:57415/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element', }, [Symbol(kOutHeaders)]: [Object: null prototype] { accept: [Array], 'content-type': [Array], 'user-agent': [Array], 'content-length': [Array], host: [Array] }, }, response: { status: 404, statusText: 'Not Found', headers: { connection: 'keep-alive', pragma: 'no-cache', 'cache-control': 'no-store', 'content-encoding': 'identity', 'content-type': 'application/json', 'content-length': '3828' }, config: { transitional: [Object], adapter: [Function: httpAdapter], transformRequest: [Array], transformResponse: [Array], timeout: 0, xsrfCookieName: 'XSRF-TOKEN', xsrfHeaderName: 'X-XSRF-TOKEN', maxContentLength: -1, maxBodyLength: -1, env: [Object], validateStatus: [Function: validateStatus], headers: [Object], method: 'post', url: 'http://127.0.0.1:57415/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element', data: '{"strategy":"id","selector":"incomeCheckbox","context":"","multiple":false}' }, request: <ref 1> ClientRequest { _events: [Object: null prototype], _eventsCount: 7, _maxListeners: undefined, outputData: [], outputSize: 0, writable: true, destroyed: true, _last: false, chunkedEncoding: false, shouldKeepAlive: true, maxRequestsOnConnectionReached: false, _defaultKeepAlive: true, useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true, sendDate: false, _removedConnection: false, _removedContLen: false, _removedTE: false, strictContentLength: false, _contentLength: 75, _hasBody: true, _trailer: '', finished: true, _headerSent: true, _closed: true, socket: [Socket], _header: 'POST /session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element HTTP/1.1\r\n' + 'Accept: application/json, text/plain, /\r\n' + 'Content-Type: application/json\r\n' + 'User-Agent: axios/0.27.2\r\n' + 'Content-Length: 75\r\n' + 'Host: 127.0.0.1:57415\r\n' + 'Connection: keep-alive\r\n' + '\r\n', _keepAliveTimeout: 0, _onPendingData: [Function: nop], agent: [Agent], socketPath: undefined, method: 'POST', maxHeaderSize: undefined, insecureHTTPParser: undefined, joinDuplicateHeaders: undefined, path: '/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element', _ended: true, res: [IncomingMessage], aborted: false, timeoutCb: null, upgradeOrConnect: false, parser: null, maxHeadersCount: null, reusedSocket: true, host: '127.0.0.1', protocol: 'http:', _redirectable: [Writable], [Symbol(kOutHeaders)]: [Object: null prototype], }, data: { sessionId: '0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281', value: [Object] } } } [AppiumDriver@17b9] Plugin device-farm is now handling cmd 'findElement' [AppiumDriver@17b9] Executing default handling behavior for command 'findElement' [AndroidUiautomator2Driver@87b6 (88292602)] Valid locator strategies for this request: xpath, id, class name, accessibility id, css selector, -android uiautomator [AndroidUiautomator2Driver@87b6 (88292602)] Waiting up to 10000 ms for condition [device-farm-/Users/sankethcs/.appium] Updating lastCmdExecutedAt for device emulator-5554 in session 88292602-1636-43cc-96bf-54f3e763f8c3 [AndroidUiautomator2Driver@87b6 (88292602)] Matched '/element' to command name 'findElement' [AndroidUiautomator2Driver@87b6 (88292602)] Proxying [POST /element] to [POST http://127.0.0.1:57415/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element] with body: {"strategy":"id","selector":"incomeCheckbox","context":"","multiple":false} [AndroidUiautomator2Driver@87b6 (88292602)] Got response with status 404: {"sessionId":"0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281","value":{"error":"no such element","message":"An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters","stacktrace":"io.appium.uiautomator2.common.exceptions.ElementNotFoundException: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters\n\tat io.appium.uiautomator2.handler.FindElement.safeHandle(FindElement.java:63)\n\tat io.appium.uiautomator2.handler.request.SafeRequestHandler.handle(SafeRequestHandler.java:59)\n\tat io.appium.uiautomator2.server.AppiumServlet.handleRequest(AppiumServlet.java:277)\n\tat io.appium.uiautomator2.server.AppiumServlet.handleHttpRequest(AppiumServlet.java:271)\n\tat io.appium.uiautomator2.http.ServerHandler.channelRead(ServerHandler.java:68)\n\tat io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:366)\n\tat io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:352)\n\tat io.netty.chann...

[sankethsunkad]

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