Is there a way to disable caching in case #2?
My experience with geb so-far, is that it is quite prickly with dynamic
pages. I may be able to interact with (module) content for the duration of
a call, but then if I call the same method a second time, it will fail,
citing "content not found". I keep being dumbfounded by cases where I
believe my geb code is mirroring what I see in the browser, yet some
underlying, invisible issue fails a test.
On Monday, September 25, 2017 at 4:18:55 AM UTC+10, Marcin Erdmann wrote:
>
> Geb indeed evaluates templates on every call but there are multiple
> situations when results of that evaluation are "cached" in the context of
> what you're doing. To name three:
> 1. Some operations are not atomic. What I mean by that is what looks like
> a single Geb call results in multiple WebDriver calls. Take
> $(".description").text() - it actually results in two calls, one to locate
> the element(s) having description as the class and one to obtain the text
> of that element. If the element is removed from the DOM in-between the two
> calls you will get a StaleElementException.
> 2. Geb's modules have a concept of base element. That element is located
> when an instance of a module is created and "cached" for the lifetime of
> that instance. So if you are calling any methods on instance of a module
> and its base element has been removed from the DOM then you will get a
> StaleElementException.
> 3. If you assign elements returned from evaluation of content definitions
> to a variable and then call multiple methods on that variable then you are
> effectively "caching" that element in that context. If the element is
> removed from the DOM between being assigned to the variable and the method
> calls will get a StaleElementException.
>
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:46 AM, Samuel Rossinovic <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I am confused about those exceptions I'm seeing on content elements.
>>
>> In Geb's manual, I read:
>>
>> cache
>>
>> Default value: false
>>
>> The cache option controls whether or not the definition is evaluated
>> each time the content is requested
>>
>> So, if Geb evaluates content templates on every access, how can stale
>> element exceptions occur?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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