Webdriveragent: iOS 10.x + Appium 1.7.0beta + iPhone SE PageSource has error value 'AX error -25205' for some attribute values

[rajfidel]

The problem

PageSource has issues on iPhone SE + Appium 1.7.0 beta + iOS 10.x. It displays some of the values as 'AX error -25205'
Non-iPhone SE + iOS 11 + Appium 1.7.0 beta works fine.
Couldn't check iPhone SE with iOS 11 since I do not have a device with this configuration to check.
iPhone SE + Appium 1.6.5 + iOS 10.x works fine as well.

Logs

The following logs were captured on the iOS Settings app (com.apple.Preferences)

On Appium 1.7.0 beta

iPhone 6s, Appium Logs here, Page Source here
iPhone SE, Appium Logs here, Page Source here
Confirmed on another iPhone SE as well to be the same case.

From the above logs can be seen that only iPhone SE exhibits this issue with Appium 1.7.0 beta.

On Appium 1.6.5

iPhone SE, Appium Logs here, Page Source here

From the above logs can be seen that iPhone SE does not exhibit this issue with Appium 1.6.5

Environment

• Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.7.0 beta
• Last Appium version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable): 1.6.5
• Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: macOS Sierra 10.12.6
• Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): 8.1.4
• Mobile platform/version under test: 10.2.1
• Real device or emulator/simulator: Real device
• Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: Appium CLI

[broven]

any update? same problem

[huaius]

Same here, but only happens on iPad, iOS9 and iOS10
Appium1.7.1 + Xcode9

[seavan]

I had the same problem. The solution is to use iOS 11 with XCode 9, for now.

[spv007]

Am also facing the same issue with iPad Air + iOS 11 + XCode 9 + Appium 1.7.1

(It works fine with iPhone 6 Plus though, along with the above config. Issue observed with iPads only)

[JasonArm]

+1 - I'm running iPhone 5 + iOS 9.2.1 + XCode 9 + Appium 1.7.1

[kdthomas2121]

Occurs for every element for me. Iphone 5, iOS 11.0, Appium 1.7.1. Was working fine earlier today, now loading the exact same app with the same conditions in the inspector results in

[JasonArm]

Also, +1 - on iPhone 6 + iOS 10.1.1 + XCode 9 + Appium 1.7.1

[niclaforge]

any update? same problem

[Seijan]

I have the same issue with an IPhone SE 11.0,10.0 + Appium 1.7.1 and as well on an IPhone 8 11.0 + Appium 1.7.1, so any help would be appriciated

[marekcirkos]

Is this same issue as in https://github.com/facebook/WebDriverAgent/issues/372?

[darkmanno6]

• +1 - I'm running iPhone 6p + iOS 10.3.3 + XCode 9 + Appium 1.7.1

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update 2017.10.25:

• The issue is resolved after when I update to ios 11.

[rakeshsukla53]

Facing the same issue. Any updates yet ?

[rakeshsukla53]

[UPDATE] : - This issue is resolved after updating to iOS 10.3 simulator

[kdthomas2121]

Still not resolved when using real devices

[LakshminarayananG]

Have upgraded the IOS version to 11 in IPhone 6 and it works fine. Able to inspect the elements.
The XCode version used is 9.X

[gargvishal]

+1, faced the same issue.
Upgraded the IOS version to 11 in IPhone 6 and it works fine. Able to inspect the elements.
The XCode version used is 9.X

[appiumnovice]

Pb on iPhone 10.2.1 / XCode 9.
I need to automate tests on real devices from iOS 9 to 11.

[kdthomas2121]

Testobject free devices are running iOS 9, so I need to automate for 9 also

[levyshachar2]

any update regarding this issue?

[sdanerib]

Hi guys, I'm having exact same issue, do you have any update?
I'm working with XCode 9.1, Appium 1.7.1, iPhone 6s with iOS 10.2

[sdanerib]

If this helps anyone, I'm not having issues when trying with:
XCode 9.1,
Appium 1.7.1,
Appium Desktop 1.2.5 and
iPhone 6s or X with iOS 11.1 😃

[Dilip-M]

@mykola-mokhnach Any update on this issue, multiple scenarios are getting failed coz of this for a very long time.

[ashwinibaisutrave]

I am also facing the same issue with below configuration
Appium 1.2.6 desktop
iPhone Simulator 5s
Xcode 9.1 -OS 10.0

[jmei08]

facing the same issue using the latest wda + xcode9.1 + ios9/ios10
@mykola-mokhnach could you had a look at this problem? Thanks.

[sasasa42]

This is an issue for me as well on all iOS device below 11. @mykola-mokhnach Please help us resolve this issue.

[Kitty2014]

iOS 9.3.5 also met

[bhavikviks]

@marekcirkos can we pls release the solution to this problem soon!

[dcnt]

iPod 6, iOS 10.1:
with XCode 9.x there're 'AX error -25205' in almost all elements.
with XCode 8.x - everything works just fine. So I keep 2 XCodes (8 and 9) for iOS 10 and 11 respectively.

[jmei08]

Using xcode9.x + ios11.x with iPhone7Plus，It takes a very long time in the snapshot accessibility hierarchy for app and returns nothing.
[AXValidations] UIAccessibility Error adding -[CAMLightingControl accessibilityLabel]

[jeremygenbook2]

Hi Everyone,

Any update on this issue yet ?

[sl1991]

Hi All,
Who does solve the issue?

[SamyQAZ]

Hi all, I am also facing the same issue with real device iPhone 7 plus iOS 10.2.1, Xcode Version 9.2 and appium.app Version 1.2.7.

Anyone found solution or work around for it?

[olyv]

The only working combination for me is Xcode 9.2 + iOS simulator version platform 11.2

[Kitty2014]

should use xcode 8.3.3

[mykola-mokhnach]

Try the patch https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/31, which is going to be merged to Appium beta soon

[SamyQAZ]

@mykola-mokhnach When will it be available to try?

[peritus]

Added the following as a postinstall script to my automation project:

#!/bin/bash

rm -fr WebDriverAgent-window_based_xml_source
rm -f WebDriverAgent_window_based_xml_source.zip

curl https://codeload.github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/zip/window_based_xml_source > WebDriverAgent_window_based_xml_source.zip
unzip WebDriverAgent_window_based_xml_source.zip -d WebDriverAgent-window_based_xml_source

for webdrivercopy in `find node_modules|grep WebDriverAgent$`; do
  echo rm -rv $webdrivercopy
  echo cp -rv WebDriverAgent-window_based_xml_source/WebDriverAgent-window_based_xml_source $webdrivercopy
done

to use https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/31 ..

[peritus]

@mykola-mokhnach Thank you for the update on this one!

Doing so (believe i'm using xcode 9.2 + ios9.3 + appium 1.7.1 + https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/31/commits/e88a6c7ca31cbf52f14b0c6e603d6fdb79ba0a57 as described above) my tests start working again, except for:

iOS 9.3 + iPhone 6 simulator

When the app asks for camera permissions using the system dialog, i'm still seeing AX error -25205. All other ui elements can be found (again! thank you!).

iOS 11 + iPhone X simulator:

is there an upper limit on the maximum depth of the xml tree building ? I'm seeing

                          <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" name=" Willkommen zurück!  Login.email   Login.password  Login.forgotPassword   Login.button[disabled]" label=" Willkommen zurück!  Login.email   Login.password  Login.forgotPassword   Login.button[disabled]" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="88" width="375" height="724">
                            <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" name="Login.button[disabled]" label="Login.button[disabled]" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="471" width="375" height="50">
                              <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" name="Login.button[disabled]" label="Login.button[disabled]" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="471" width="375" height="50"/>
                            </XCUIElementTypeOther>
                          </XCUIElementTypeOther>

but no text input with name="Login.email" label="Login.email" :(

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Is this the right place to report this ? Happy to help debugging, let me know how.

[mykola-mokhnach]

Thanks for reporting this @peritus. Currently I have no solutions for the problems above.

is there an upper limit on the maximum depth of the xml tree building

No, there is no limit. We display everything we can get from XCTest.

but no text input with name="Login.email" label="Login.email"

Is this input present on other iOS versions? Perhaps, your AUT code just does not define these elements as accessible properly.

[SamyQAZ]

@mykola-mokhnach Updated to Appium CLI - 1.7.2 and appium.app to 1.3.0 still the above issue exist.
Cannot interact with UI elements. Throws 'AX error -25205'.

When run test from command line throws below error,
Real device: iphone5C - 10.3.2

WebDriverException: Message: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Cannot get 'xml' source of the current application

Did anyone tried to upgrade to new version and check this issue?

[peritus]

@mykola-mokhnach Thanks!

As for the iPhone 6 + iOS9.3 case with giving camera permission mentioned above, looked at the source further, this is how it looks like (my webdriver script is trying to tap name="Ja" (_Ja_ → _Yes_ in german):

                  <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="AX error -25205" enabled="true" visible="true" x="187" y="373" width="136" height="44">
                    <XCUIElementTypeButton type="XCUIElementTypeButton" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="Ja" enabled="true" visible="true" x="187" y="373" width="136" height="44"/>
                  </XCUIElementTypeOther>

but it only finds

name="AX error -25205" label="Ja"

while that used to be

name="Ja" label="Ja"

in previous versions of XCode.

As for the other case I mentioned ("Login.email"), that works in iOS 9.3, will supply more logs as I get ahold of them.

[peritus]

@mykola-mokhnach

so, had a few more test runs, here is the xml rendering (both with your window_based_xml_source branch, both the same application, but different iOS / phone model):

iOS 9.3 - iPhone 5s

Automation works beautifully, all the elements are there

  <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label=" Willkommen zurück!  Login.email   Login.password  Login.forgotPassword   Login.button[disabled]" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="64" width="375" height="603">
    <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label=" Willkommen zurück!  Login.email   Login.password  Login.forgotPassword  " enabled="true" visible="false" x="0" y="64" width="375" height="0">
      <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label=" Willkommen zurück!  Login.email   Login.password  Login.forgotPassword  " enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="64" width="375" height="337">
    <XCUIElementTypeScrollView type="XCUIElementTypeScrollView" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="AX error -25205" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="64" width="375" height="337">
      <XCUIElementTypeImage type="XCUIElementTypeImage" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="AX error -25205" enabled="true" visible="false" x="369" y="25" width="3" height="36"/>
      <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label=" Willkommen zurück!  Login.email   Login.password  Login.forgotPassword" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="64" width="375" height="327">
        <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label=" Willkommen zurück! " enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="64" width="375" height="158">
          <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" enabled="true" visible="true" x="152" y="64" width="71" height="70">
        <XCUIElementTypeImage type="XCUIElementTypeImage" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="AX error -25205" enabled="true" visible="true" x="152" y="64" width="71" height="70"/>
          </XCUIElementTypeOther>
          <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="Willkommen zurück! " enabled="true" visible="true" x="49" y="134" width="278" height="88">
        <XCUIElementTypeStaticText type="XCUIElementTypeStaticText" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="Willkommen zurück!" enabled="true" visible="true" x="69" y="149" width="238" height="30"/>
        <XCUIElementTypeStaticText type="XCUIElementTypeStaticText" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" enabled="true" visible="false" x="188" y="183" width="0" height="14"/>
          </XCUIElementTypeOther>
        </XCUIElementTypeOther>
        <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="Login.email   Login.password " enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="222" width="375" height="90">
          <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="Login.email  " enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="222" width="375" height="45">
        <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="Login.email" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="222" width="375" height="45">
          <XCUIElementTypeTextField type="XCUIElementTypeTextField" value="Deine E-Mail" name="Login.email" label="Login.email" enabled="true" visible="true" x="15" y="233" width="355" height="22"/>
        </XCUIElementTypeOther>
        <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label=" " enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="266" width="375" height="1">
          <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="266" width="15" height="1"/>
          <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" enabled="true" visible="true" x="15" y="266" width="360" height="1"/>
        </XCUIElementTypeOther>
          </XCUIElementTypeOther>
          <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="Login.password " enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="267" width="375" height="44">
        <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="Login.password " enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="267" width="375" height="44">
          <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" enabled="true" visible="false" x="0" y="267" width="0" height="0"/>
          <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="Login.password" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="267" width="375" height="44">
            <XCUIElementTypeSecureTextField type="XCUIElementTypeSecureTextField" value="Dein Passwort" name="Login.password" label="Login.password" enabled="true" visible="true" x="15" y="278" width="355" height="21"/>
          </XCUIElementTypeOther>
        </XCUIElementTypeOther>
          </XCUIElementTypeOther>
        </XCUIElementTypeOther>
        <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="Login.forgotPassword" label="Login.forgotPassword" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="311" width="375" height="80"/>
      </XCUIElementTypeOther>
      <XCUIElementTypeImage type="XCUIElementTypeImage" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="AX error -25205" enabled="true" visible="false" x="-39" y="395" width="36" height="3"/>
    </XCUIElementTypeScrollView>
      </XCUIElementTypeOther>
    </XCUIElementTypeOther>
    <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="AX error -25205" label="Login.button[disabled]" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="401" width="375" height="50">
      <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" value="AX error -25205" name="Login.button[disabled]" label="Login.button[disabled]" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="401" width="375" height="50"/>
    </XCUIElementTypeOther>
  </XCUIElementTypeOther>
</XCUIElementTypeOther>
</XCUIElementTypeOther>
</XCUIElementTypeOther>
</XCUIElementTypeOther>
</XCUIElementTypeOther>

iOS 11 - iPhone X

Automation can not find name="Login.email" - tests fail

<XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" name=" Willkommen zurück!  Login.email   Login.password  Login.forgotPassword   Login.button[disabled]" label=" Willkommen zurück!  Login.email   Login.password  Login.forgotPassword   Login.button[disabled]" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="88" width="375" height="724">
    <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" name="Login.button[disabled]" label="Login.button[disabled]" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="471" width="375" height="50">
      <XCUIElementTypeOther type="XCUIElementTypeOther" name="Login.button[disabled]" label="Login.button[disabled]" enabled="true" visible="true" x="0" y="471" width="375" height="50"/>
    </XCUIElementTypeOther>
  </XCUIElementTypeOther>
</XCUIElementTypeOther>

Notes

• this is a React Native application, so I'm trying to map the XCTest concepts on what I understand how RN maps views to XCUIELements.
• The top level element in both snippets above has name=" Willkommen zurück! Login.email Login.password Login.forgotPassword Login.button[disabled]", that's why I think they are the representation of the same UI elements. I'm not sure whether this is a feature of XCTest or React Native, but it seems to me that if a XCUElement does not have an explicit name it will get one that is a concatenation of all the names of child elements)).
• For the iOS 11 case, the parent element seems to have the proper name, but of all the child elements, only the name=Login.button[disabled] seems to be visible, all the other elements are missing from the representation (hence my suspicion of a maximum depth in rendering this tree).

@mykola-mokhnach LMK if this is helpful, or whether I can provide more / different info.

[mykola-mokhnach]

@peritus Try to get the format=description representation of the page source for both cases. I'd like to see how XCTest sees the hierarchy. Also, it will be useful to get the device debug logs for the period while WDA builds the tree. They may contain quite useful information.

[peritus]

@mykola-mokhnach Here's the information in a separate gist: https://gist.github.com/peritus/edf951873036342e380115df746aea6d (same application / same setup as before)

[mykola-mokhnach]

it's not the source I wanted to see. I need to call https://github.com/facebook/WebDriverAgent/blob/52512a7fb39a697fc727d372c8765a43c74f6d37/WebDriverAgentLib/Commands/FBDebugCommands.m#L51

[peritus]

@mykola-mokhnach I added both the content of http://localhost:8100/session/3A1824AF-A152-4307-A82A-697FCD76C9F9/source and http://localhost:8100/session/3A1824AF-A152-4307-A82A-697FCD76C9F9/source?format=description to the gist above. There's 6 files in the gist, debug log, format=xml source + format=description source * 2 device configurations

Not knowing too much details, I think this should trigger the line of code you mentioned. If not: Where I can learn how to provide the debug info you need ?

[mykola-mokhnach]

That's weird. http://localhost:8100/session/3A1824AF-A152-4307-A82A-697FCD76C9F9/source?format=description should provide different output, since it tries to get children windows first and then print their debug descriptions. But here it only prints the description of the application itself, which is useless, since it only contains snapshot addresses in memory.

[peritus]

I've now updated to 02887c171699821314c1928642303c36f037ae8a but it make no difference.

[lavanyaLife360]

@mykola-mokhnach Updated to the latest appium inspector, still seeing this issue: tried with different os's 11.2, 10.2, 10.3 . still the same

[SamyQAZ]

There was no issue with Appium inspector on iphon8 (iOS 11.0.2) until yesterday. Since this morning I am unable to launch app using Appium inspector. :disappointed:

Appium inspector logs gist:

link to gist!

[gunnamnandu]

I am facing above same issue, can any one get solution please update

[SamyQAZ]

@gunnamnandu It works currently for only one real device in my list. iOS 10.XX still same result 'AX error -25205'
Able to inspect elements on iPhone8(11.0.2) - using Appium.app(1.3.0) and CLI(1.7.2)

[SenhorCastor]

Same issue, only works on XCode 9.3 with IOS 11.2.

[marekcirkos]

Closing since this is iOS 10.x related issue on Apple side.