Detox: UIPickerView does not contain desired value

[petrmrakava]

Sorry guys, but all about iOS Picker was closed without any conclusion. I have exactly the same issue as https://github.com/wix/Detox/issues/798. Also, the question on stackoverflow has no answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50082463/testing-picker-with-detox-in-react-native

so

if I use "testID":
await element(by.id('testIdPicker')).setColumnToValue(0, 'en');
I get
"Description" : "Interaction cannot continue because the desired element was not found."
If I use "type":
await element(by.type('UIPickerView')).setColumnToValue(0, 'en');
I get
"Description" : "UIPickerView does not contain desired value!"

Detox, Node, Device, Xcode and macOS Versions

• Detox: 9.0.4
• React Native: 0.57.4
• Node: 11.1.0
• Device:*
• Xcode: 10.0
• macOS: 10.13.6

[LeoNatan]

Can you please create a demo project that reproduces this?

[petrmrakava]

Sorry I can not share our project with you, but I created an example based on https://github.com/wix/Detox/issues/798. There are the same issues as I reported.
You can find it here: https://github.com/petrmrakava/Detox/tree/petrmrakava/iosPicker

[LeoNatan]

Great, thank you!

[fedeerbes]

Hi @LeoNatan, any progress in this? i'm facing the same issue.

[LeoNatan]

Sorry, I am busy with other projects at the moment.

[LeoNatan]

See this:
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/22537

[LeoNatan]

It seems like an RN bug.

[fedeerbes]

thanks @LeoNatan i'll be waiting for the next version with that fix.

[LeoNatan]

@fedeerbes Can you please test to see if the issue still reproduces with modern version of RN? Thanks

[revh]

Hi, first of all thanks for the great work.

It seems that the issue still reproduces also with RN 0.59.9

await element(by.type("UIPickerView")).setColumnToValue(0, "value");

results in

"Description" : "UIPickerView does not contain desired value!"

[noomorph]

Just to make sure, I wonder how this test passes then?

https://github.com/wix/Detox/blob/bdab58681ee6fb10100d43809a9c64f9ebf294c6/detox/test/e2e/17.datePicker.test.js#L7-L11

[revh]

I can see that you are using DatePickerIOS Component for the test, but I got the issue with Picker or PickerIOS Components.

[LeoNatan]

DatePickerIOS is mapped to a UIDatePicker, which is a wrapper around UIPickerView. The same API should work with both.

[revh]

Thanks for your reply, I see your point.

I tried to add into my project the same test as the one that @noomorph quoted and the same DatePickerIOS component and everything worked as expected.
So this let me wonder if there are any subtle differences between those two Picker and DatePickerIOS implementations.

[LeoNatan]

Hmm, I think I see the problem. Earl Grey expect the picker view to implement a data source, but the clowns in RN just implement the methods and rely on undocumented behavior of iOS. Investigating.

[LeoNatan]

I'll be providing a fix soon. As a bonus, I will also simplify setting picker values in RN date pickers (allow selecting by id, not just by class).

[fedeerbes]

Hi @LeoNatan, thanks for the work you did it here. Reading the above, I'll try with the new version and let you know how it goes.

[LeoNatan]

Thanks!

[revh]

I tested the new implementation and it seems to be working properly now.
Thanks @LeoNatan 🥇 👍