IOS - TouchAction function doesn't work

The problem

I’m working with the java-client and an iOs real device. My goal is to click on a offset of a MobileElement. After I saw that driver.tap was deprecated, I tried to use IOSTouchAction but it doesn’t work. I think myMobileElement.click() and new IOSTouchAction(myDriver).tap(myMobileElement) should do the same but only the first one works.

Environment

• Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.6.5-beta
• Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: Mac OS 10
• Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): 3.10.10
• Mobile platform/version under test: iOS 9.3.5
• Real device or emulator/simulator: iPhone 6 plus

Details

• First method with mobileElement.click works:

MobileElement beforeLastBubble= roomPageA.bubblesList.get(roomPageA.bubblesList.size()-2);
beforeLastBubble.click();

Appium server logs are: https://gist.github.com/jeangb/24ba085e2c8f686cc78e684d2b76f636

• Second method with TouchAction doesn’t work: new IOSTouchAction(myDriver).tap(beforeLastBubble); (The driver used to instanciate the IOSTouchAction is the same used to create my MobileElement object) Appium server logs returns

[MJSONWP] Responding to client with driver.performTouch() result: null

Full logs here: https://gist.github.com/jeangb/ce8b48fd65180a2c208f26d10f447f2d

For me the second method is the equivalent of the first one, why it doesn’t work ?

[mykola-mokhnach]

@jeangb you are possibly missing perform call, which is mandatory to apply the action.

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