Smart Wait with puppeteer

What are you trying to achieve?

Define Smart waits using puppeteer

What do you get instead?

I need to set wait on each statement

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[DavertMik]

Cool. Thank you.

Let me write here the ideas behind SmartWait:

SmartWait was created because there was implicit wait API in WebDriver. https://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp So basically it works by turning on/off implicit waits when a CSS/XPath selector is searched.

However, for Puppeteer there is no such API so this functionalioty should be implemented manually.

SmartWait works only for CSS/XPath locators, because when we do fuzzy search we try different locators. So a link or button is not found we should search by image inside a link, span inside link, etc. So you can make few empty tries before getting a valid result. So SmartWait should not work for fuzzy locators.

You can use either promise-retry library or setInterval to make a poll for a new elements.

A basic example.

// inside findClickable: 

if (!matchedLocator.isFuzzy()) {
    // make a poll and when element is found return it
    // return findElements.call(this, contextEl, matchedLocator.simplify());
  }

[DavertMik]

I don’t think it is needed with retryFailedStep plugin