Codeception: Check a checkbox without ID in multiple rows - yii2 Codeception

[ahmednawazbutt]

What are you trying to achieve?

Click a Checkbox against a record and then delete the selected record in yii2 using codeception testing enviroment

What do you get instead?

Fail Checkbox or Radio by Label or CSS or XPath element with '#message-grid > table > tbody > tr > td:nth-child(1) > input[type="checkbox"]' was not found.

or
Fail Link or Button or CSS or XPath element with '//*[@data-key="1"]/td[@class="text-center"]/input[@type="checkbox" and @value="1"]' was not found.

Here is my Error Log:

1) MessageCest: Sent_mark un read with selection
 Test  tests/acceptance/models/MessageCest.php:Sent_MarkUnReadWithSelection
 Step  Click "//*[@data-key="1"]/td[@class="text-center"]/input[@type="checkbox" and @value="1"]"
 Fail  Link or Button or CSS or XPath element with '//*[@data-key="1"]/td[@class="text-center"]/input[@type="checkbox" and @value="1"]' was not found.

Scenario Steps:

 8. $I->click("//*[@data-key="1"]/td[@class="text-center"]/input[@type="checkbox" and @value="1"]") at tests/acceptance/models/MessageCest.php:162
 7. $I->wait(3) at tests/acceptance/models/MessageCest.php:33
 6. $I->dontSee("Incorrect username or password") at tests/acceptance/models/MessageCest.php:31
 5. $I->click(".btn-success") at tests/acceptance/models/MessageCest.php:30
 4. $I->fillField("#loginform-password","offneo123") at tests/acceptance/models/MessageCest.php:26
 3. $I->fillField("#loginform-username","admin1") at tests/acceptance/models/MessageCest.php:25


FAILURES!
Tests: 1, Assertions: 1, Failures: 1.

Here is my MessageCest class method:

public function Sent_MarkUnReadWithSelection(AcceptanceTester $I)
    {
        $idmessage = 1;
        $xPath_Checkbox = '//*[@data-key="'. $idmessage .'"]/td[@class="text-center"]/input[@type="checkbox" and @value="'. $idmessage .'"]';

//         $selector = '#message-grid > table > tbody > tr > td:nth-child(1) > input[type="checkbox"]';
//         $I->see('//*[@data-key="1" and @class="unread"]')
        $I->click($xPath_Checkbox);
        $I->click('a#mark-unread');

    }

Details

• Codeception version: 2.2.9
• PHP Version: > 5.4
• Operating System: Linux
• Installation type: Composer

class_name: AcceptanceTester
modules:
    enabled:
        - WebDriver
        - Yii2:
           part:
              [init, orm]
    config:
        WebDriver:
            url: 'http://localhost/TestProject/'
            browser: phantomjs
            window_size: 1920x1310
            capabilities:
              webStorageEnabled: true

[Naktibalda]

Are you sure that your xpath locator is correct?

[ahmednawazbutt]

yes.
I opened the inspector in chrome and then right clicked on elemn and copied its xpath and selector and pasted in my code.

[Naktibalda]

Please provide enough HTML code to reproduce your issue.

[ahmednawazbutt]

I didn't understand what are you asking.
I have provided the test function code.

Here is the HTML code of my webpage in (browser - inspect element)

<tr class="unread" data-key="1"><td class="text-center"><input type="checkbox" name="selection[]" value="1"></td><td class="open-view">admin1</td><td class="text-center open-view"></td><td class="open-view">Subject of Message</td><td class="open-view">2017-10-12 12:14:16</td><td class="action-column"><a id="view-btn" class="btn btn-sm btn-info" href="/OINTRANET/index-test.php?r=oinbox%2Fmessage%2Fview&amp;id=1" title="" aria-label="View" data-pjax="0" data-toggle="tooltip" data-original-title="View"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-eye-open"></i></a> <a id="delete-btn" class="btn btn-sm btn-danger" href="/OINTRANET/index-test.php?r=oinbox%2Fmessage%2Ftrash&amp;id=1" title="" aria-label="Delete" data-confirm="Are you sure you want to delete this item?" data-method="post" data-pjax="0" data-toggle="tooltip" data-original-title="Delete"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-trash"></i></a></td></tr>

xPath for the check box is:
//*[@data-key="1"]/td[@class="text-center"]/input[@type="checkbox" and @value="1"]
selector for checkbox is:
````

message-grid > table > tbody > tr > td:nth-child(1) > input[type="checkbox"]

````

[Naktibalda]

I will take a look at your issue this weekend.

[Naktibalda]

@ahmednawazbutt you used a wrong method - click opens links and submits forms, use checkOption to tick a checkbox.

[ahmednawazbutt]

Thank you @Naktibalda .
I tried that before, dont know what happened but now its working fine.

Still thank you very much. Appreciate your help