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Able to find an element using Appium desktop but not in Appium CLI

See original GitHub issue

The problem

Environment

Appium CLI: v1.15.1 Appium Desktop: v1.15.1
Last Appium version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable): Don’t know
Desktop OS/version used to run Appium:
Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): MacOS Mojave- 10.14.5
Npm: 6.14.4
Mobile platform/version under test: iOS 13.3.1
Real device or emulator/simulator: Real device-iPhone 8
Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: Both

Details

Trying to click on an overlay element which appears when tap on a group icon. Attached the screenshot. Able to find and click on that element in Appium desktop but not using appium CLI Locator xpath -//XCUIElementTypeButton[@name=“join”]

Link to Appium logs

[Appium Desktop Log] https://gist.github.com/VenkateshPS/bed09a8c26839999aa5b7b6079a9e9d0

[Appium Server console log] https://gist.github.com/VenkateshPS/66d0f2bb502e173867687959ce4edd22

[Driver Page Source Appium] https://gist.github.com/VenkateshPS/f060b67028d8af03a1f0d5dc2a31b74e

[Appium Desktop Page Source] https://gist.github.com/VenkateshPS/1b380ed3dd607868d4603da69db2d55e

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Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:9 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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KazuCocoacommented, Apr 23, 2020

hm, AppiumDesktop also uses the same Appium CLI internally. So, except for the client and timing, Appium desktop and CLI environment should be the same.

Appium desktop uses https://github.com/admc/wd as a webdriver client. AD calls screenshot and page source command frequently. So, I wondered if some actions affect XCTest internal snapshot process.

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CharbelAA1commented, Mar 18, 2021

I have same issue with Appium CLI, any idea how to fix this ? Using the appium Desktop, I can find the ID easily, when I use appium CLI getpagesource does not read it.