Codeception: see() with strict CSS locator has problem with phpunit 7 typehint

[simara-svatopluk]

What are you trying to achieve?

Use $webDriver->see('text', ['css' => '.class'])

This fails because phpunit Assert::assertThat($haystack, Constraint $constraint, string $message = '') has third paramether typehinted as a string. Array ['css' => '.class'] is given.

What do you get instead?

There was 1 error:
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  [TypeError] Argument 3 passed to PHPUnit\Framework\Assert::assertThat() must be of the type string, array given, called in /var/www/shopsys-framework/vendor/codeception/codeception/src/Codeception/Util/Shared/Asserts.php on line 289  

...

/var/www/shopsys-framework/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Framework/Assert.php:2205
/var/www/shopsys-framework/vendor/codeception/codeception/src/Codeception/Util/Shared/Asserts.php:289
/var/www/shopsys-framework/vendor/codeception/codeception/src/Codeception/Module/WebDriver.php:2856
/var/www/shopsys-framework/vendor/codeception/codeception/src/Codeception/Module/WebDriver.php:882
...

ERRORS!
Tests: 1, Assertions: 1, Errors: 1.

Details

• Codeception version: 2.4.0
• PHP Version: 7.2.2
• Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04
• Installation type: Composer
• List of installed packages (composer show)

phpunit/php-code-coverage            6.0.1                                                           Library that provides collection, processing, and rendering functionality for PHP code coverage ...
phpunit/php-file-iterator            1.4.5                                                           FilterIterator implementation that filters files based on a list of suffixes.
phpunit/php-text-template            1.2.1                                                           Simple template engine.
phpunit/php-timer                    2.0.0                                                           Utility class for timing
phpunit/php-token-stream             3.0.0                                                           Wrapper around PHP's tokenizer extension.
phpunit/phpunit                      7.0.2                                                           The PHP Unit Testing framework.
phpunit/phpunit-mock-objects         6.0.1
sebastian/code-unit-reverse-lookup   1.0.1                                                           Looks up which function or method a line of code belongs to
sebastian/comparator                 2.1.3                                                           Provides the functionality to compare PHP values for equality
sebastian/diff                       3.0.0                                                           Diff implementation
sebastian/environment                3.1.0                                                           Provides functionality to handle HHVM/PHP environments
sebastian/exporter                   3.1.0                                                           Provides the functionality to export PHP variables for visualization
sebastian/global-state               2.0.0                                                           Snapshotting of global state
sebastian/object-enumerator          3.0.3                                                           Traverses array structures and object graphs to enumerate all referenced objects
sebastian/object-reflector           1.1.1                                                           Allows reflection of object attributes, including inherited and non-public ones
sebastian/recursion-context          3.0.0                                                           Provides functionality to recursively process PHP variables
sebastian/resource-operations        1.0.0                                                           Provides a list of PHP built-in functions that operate on resources
sebastian/version                    2.0.1
codeception/codeception              2.4.0                                                           BDD-style testing framework
codeception/phpunit-wrapper          7.0.2                                                           PHPUnit classes used by Codeception
codeception/stub                     1.0.2

• Suite configuration:

[alecgeatches]

I'm running into this issue as well. This error is confusing given the WebDriver documentation for see(), which gives a strict selector as an example:

You can specify a specific HTML element (via CSS or XPath) as the second parameter to only search within that element.

<?php
$I->see('Logout');                        // I can suppose user is logged in
$I->see('Sign Up', 'h1');                 // I can suppose it's a signup page
$I->see('Sign Up', '//body/h1');          // with XPath
$I->see('Sign Up', ['css' => 'body h1']); // with strict CSS locator

[magroski]

any updates on this?

[simara-svatopluk]

:rocket: Thanks!