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iOS: Wrong Context Selected When App Has Multiple WebViews

See original GitHub issue

The problem

In some of our use cases we test apps with multiple webviews in a single screen, and it appears that in some cases attempting to select a context before the second webview is loaded causes the wrong one to be selected.

Reproduced on iOS 11.0.3, 12.4 and 13.3.1 (with an additional getContextHandles() call before loading the first page to work around https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/13770).

Attempting to set the context again to the same one immediately after the incorrect one has been selected causes the correct one to be selected.

Environment

Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.16.0
Last Appium version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable): N/A
Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: MacOS 10.14.6
Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): v10.15
Npm or Yarn package manager: npm
Mobile platform/version under test: iOS
Real device or emulator/simulator: Real Device
Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: CLI

Link to Appium logs and code to reproduce

https://gist.github.com/Dan-Maor/fea2f29fe030f62795498e36e023ad04 (the script fails when attempting to find //div in the first webview, sometimes it fails to recognize the first webview at all.

Sample app:

https://github.com/Dan-Maor/multiwebview

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:7 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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imurchiecommented, Jan 7, 2020

It appears to be getting the notification about the second webview and treating it as a redirect, so choosing the new one (which is how the system handles new windows being opened. I’ll look into what can be done about this.

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Dan-Maorcommented, Jan 9, 2020

I can confirm that on appium@beta with the latest appium-remote-debugger version my test works correctly.

Thanks a lot for your assistance with this issue.

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