Documentation about manipulating elements

When evaluating Pylenium we struggled to find out how to manipulate elements, e.g. type some text in an <input>. It seems that Pylenium does not care about this use case at all. After some digging we learned that all we need to do is to use the underlying Selenium WebElement:

py.get('input[name="username"]').webelement.send_keys('admin')

I wonder if this is a deliberate design decision? Does Pylenium encourage using the Selenium APIs? Or is the scope of Pylenium to be a test tool for websites with mostly static content?

In any case I think new users would benefit if the documentation had a section about this topic. What do you think?

[vernko]

Per your example, here is a link from the docs on how to type into a field.

https://elsnoman.gitbook.io/pylenium/element-commands/type

if you look in the element command section of the documentation, there is a list of them commands you are able to do with elements.

also pylenium is continually being worked on, if feel it needs something, keep raising concerns like this!

hopefully my answer was helpful!

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 4:30 AM Henning Schindler [e-mail] wrote:

When evaluating Pylenium we struggled to find out how to manipulate elements, e.g. type some text in an . It seems that Pylenium does not care about this use case at all. After some digging we learned that all we need to do is to use the underlying Selenium WebElement:

py.get(‘input[name=“username”]’).webelement.send_keys(‘admin’)

I wonder if this is a deliberate design decision? Does Pylenium encourage using the Selenium APIs? Or is the scope of Pylenium to be a test tool for websites with mostly static content?

In any case I think new users would benefit if the documentation had a section about this topic. What do you think?

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[ElSnoMan]

Added another test example and called out the different Commands like .type() and the Should objects.