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getByText can't find <Text>

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Describe the bug

I’m trying the most basic example possible of getByText query in a component that just renders one <Text> component. It can’t find the element.

Expected behavior

It finds the element.

Steps to Reproduce

Create an empty component that just renders <Text>text</Text> and test with getByText(/text/i).

Screenshots

Versions

  npmPackages:
    @testing-library/react-native: ^7.1.0 => 7.1.0
    react: 16.13.1 => 16.13.1
    react-native: 0.63.4 => 0.63.4
    react-test-renderer: ^16.13 => 16.14.0

Extra info

Maybe it has to do with the way I setup the project? you can find the repository here: https://gitlab.com/joanca/rn-playground

Thanks!

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:7 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

5reactions

janithlcommented, Apr 3, 2021

bump

This is a real pain point for someone trying to upgrade from 6.0 as partial matches were working just fine on previous versions.

2reactions

MattAgncommented, Mar 31, 2021

@lukewlms I think your second example does not work because the queries try to find a perfect match for the text, finding substrings does not work yet. I you have “2MR Plus +” in your component but search for “2MR Plus”, it won’t find the node. However I don’t know how you can search for a font awesome icon in your test. This open PR should help solve your problem by allowing to search for partial match.