Does an object have to be in Repository to use Info? : Automation Tools

[winnicki]

I'm doing web testing and I need to check if an object exists or not. Sometimes it does and other times it does not. I can use try / catch and then it just throws an exception when the path isn't found, but I read on your site that you can do something like this which I think is a better approach:

// Use the 'Info' object to check existence of the
// 'TextOnline' item which uses the following RxPath:
// statusbar/text[@accessiblename='Online']
// This way you can wait with the timeout specified for
// the item within the repository for the text 'Online'
bool statusTextConnected = repo.MyApp.TextOnlineInfo.Exists();

The thing is, I don't actually use the repository that Ranorex. I have my own repository class that contains getter methods for objects. The reason for this is that the Ranorex repository gets too disorganized.
So my question is.. can I still use the Info object on elements if they are not from the ranorex repository?

[Support Team]

Hi,

You can use the Exists(...) methods of the Validation class, for additional information about the methods please take a look at our online API: Namespaces ► Ranorex ► Validate ► Exists()


Regards,
Markus
Ranorex Support Team

[winnicki]

Perfect, thanks. I did see the Validate.Exists method but most of them are void however I found the one that does return bool and this is what I need.

[Support Team]

There's more than one way to check for the existence of an object using its RanoreXPath, see this section in the Ranorex User Guide. You can also use the TryFindSingle method:

Element elem;
if (Host.Local.TryFindSingle("/yourPath", out elem))
    ; // element found

Form myApp = ...; // insert code to find the app form
Button button;
if (myApp.TryFindSingle<Button>("pathToButton", out button))
    ; // button found

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team