How to get one of the elements if the finder matched more than one?

With the finder from appium-flutter-driver, sometimes I got more than one element returned. Then if I do another API call, it returns Bad state: Too many elements. For example, in the code below, if there are more than one widgets with the same text:

from appium_flutter_finder import FlutterElement, FlutterFinder

finder = FlutterFinder()
text_finder = finder.by_text(text)
element = FlutterElement(driver, text_finder)
   
print(element.text)

the last line will raise:

(<class 'selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException'>, WebDriverException('An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Cannot execute command get_text, server reponse {\n  "isError": true,\n  "response": "Uncaught extension error while executing get_text: Bad state: Too many elements\\n#0      Iterable.single (dart:core/iterable.dart:560)\\n#1      FlutterDriverExtension._getText (package:flutter_driver/src/extension/extension.dart:625)\\n<asynchronous suspension>\\n#2      FlutterDriverExtension.call (package:flutter_driver/src/extension/extension.dart:273)\\n<asynchronous suspension>\\n#3      BindingBase.registerServiceExtension.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter/src/foundation/binding.dart:547)\\n<asynchronous suspension>\\n",\n  "type": "_extensionType",\n  "method": "ext.flutter.driver"\n}', None, None), <traceback object at 0x102059180>)

If I call element[0].text, I will get (<class 'TypeError'>, TypeError("'FlutterElement' object is not subscriptable"), <traceback object at 0x10d001600>).

So my question is, how can I get one of the elements if the finder matched several widgets? Any help is appreciated. 🙏

[GowthamReddyAmbati]

@hex0cter I’m also looking for a solution to the same issue.

[KazuCocoa]

Perhaps currently this is a flutter (or flutter_driver by Flutter team) limitation.