Click (or other Webdriver actions) not available on returned elements

click() (and all other webdriver methods) are not available on a returned element. Otherwise Webdriver seems to be working properly. Am I doing something wrong?

Note I’m not using APP.client.click('button') because I want to click the SECOND button. (Also, I’m having all sorts of problems getting xPath or CSS selectors to directly access the second button to work.)

const btns = await APP.client.$$('button')
console.log(JSON.stringify(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(btns[0])))
["ELEMENT","element-6066-11e4-a52e-4f735466cecf","value","selector","index"]
btns[1].click()
TypeError: btns[1].click is not a function

[HaNdTriX]

This is because spectron uses webdriverio < v5.0.0.

Check out the changelog for more infos: https://github.com/webdriverio/webdriverio/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v500-2018-12-20

[tonyanziano]

Thanks for the comment @HaNdTriX , I was banging my head against the wall figuring out why none of the APIs in the WebDriverIO docs were working with Spectron.

Maybe the Spectron docs should make a note of this and not link directly to the most up-to-date version of the WebDriverIO docs?

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Link to v4 WebDriverIO docs if anybody was looking:

http://v4.webdriver.io/api.html