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Unable to obtain password attribute

See original GitHub issue

The problem

When I attempt to obtain the password attribute, Appium responds with an error that the element can not be located.

When viewing the element using the Appium inspector, it is clear that the element does have the password attribute:

## Environment

Appium version: v1.4.13, v1.4.16 Desktop OS: Yosemite v10.10.5 Node.js Version: v4.2.3 Mobile Platform: Android Emulator: Genymotion, Samsung Galaxy S6 - 6.0.0 - API 23 Noticed error on both Appium CLI and Appium.app

Link to Appium logs

Can not post full log on gist. Here is the log output from where the error occurred:

info: [debug] Pushing command to appium work queue: ["find",{"strategy":"xpath","selector":"//android.view.View[2]/android.widget.EditText[1]","context":"","multiple":false}]
info: [debug] [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Got data from client: {"cmd":"action","action":"find","params":{"strategy":"xpath","selector":"//android.view.View[2]/android.widget.EditText[1]","context":"","multiple":false}}
info: [debug] [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Got command of type ACTION
info: [debug] [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Got command action: find
info: [debug] [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Finding //android.view.View[2]/android.widget.EditText[1] using XPATH with the contextId:  multiple: false
info: [debug] [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Using: UiSelector[CLASS=android.widget.EditText, INSTANCE=1]
info: [debug] [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Returning result: {"status":0,"value":{"ELEMENT":"18"}}
info: [debug] Responding to client with success: {"status":0,"value":{"ELEMENT":"18"},"sessionId":"6aeafb9b-f259-495a-8e58-c03eec0cf737"}
info: <-- POST /wd/hub/session/6aeafb9b-f259-495a-8e58-c03eec0cf737/element 200 1471.686 ms - 88 {"status":0,"value":{"ELEMENT":"18"},"sessionId":"6aeafb9b-f259-495a-8e58-c03eec0cf737"}
info: --> GET /wd/hub/session/6aeafb9b-f259-495a-8e58-c03eec0cf737/element/18/attribute/password {}
info: [debug] Pushing command to appium work queue: ["element:getAttribute",{"elementId":"18","attribute":"password"}]
info: [debug] Responding to client with error: {"status":7,"value":{"message":"An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.","origValue":"This element does not have the 'password' attribute"},"sessionId":"6aeafb9b-f259-495a-8e58-c03eec0cf737"}
info: <-- GET /wd/hub/session/6aeafb9b-f259-495a-8e58-c03eec0cf737/element/18/attribute/password 500 2.976 ms - 230 
info: [debug] [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Got data from client: {"cmd":"action","action":"element:getAttribute","params":{"elementId":"18","attribute":"password"}}
info: [debug] [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Got command of type ACTION
info: [debug] [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Got command action: getAttribute
info: [debug] [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Returning result: {"status":7,"value":"This element does not have the 'password' attribute"}
info: --> DELETE /wd/hub/session/6aeafb9b-f259-495a-8e58-c03eec0cf737 {}
info: Shutting down appium session