Paste from clipboard to a Search Field using Enter Text (wdi5) or SetValue (wdio)

[Scotti-Scholter-Marichal]

Good day,

For my application I need to paste some text from my clipboard to a search field. The Uiveri5 equivalent would have been
await searchField.sendKeys(protractor.Key.chord(protractor.Key.CONTROL, "v")
If anyone knows of a wdi5 equivalent I would greatly appreciate it. In the following I will explain what I have already tried.

1. As far as I know wdi5's native API method enterText only supports regular text and no key strokes/combinations. Please advise me otherwise.
2. Whenever I try to use await searchField.setValue(text) (which is a wdio element method) I get this error :

Request failed with status 400 due to invalid element state
or
wdi5 element not interactable: element not interactable

This error occurs regardless of whether the text argument is a combination of key strokes or just a regular string.
I have also checked whether the element exists, is displayed, is enabled and is clickable. All of these are true so I don't know what the problem could be.

I would highly appreciate any help.
Thank you.

Best wishes,
Scotti

[Siolto]

Hi @Scotti-Scholter-Marichal,

as far as I am aware of, WebdriverIO does not have a native functionality for pasting values out of you clipboard. Maybe you could try to include the node-copy-paste module to your tests. This sounds like it could solve your use case.

Regarding your second issue: Could you maybe create a separate Issue for that and maybe describe it in more detail? Thanks!

Regards
Simon

[vobu]

as far as I am aware of, WebdriverIO does not have a native functionality for pasting values out of you clipboard. Maybe you could try to include the node-copy-paste module to your tests. This sounds like it could solve your use case.

hm, it sure sounds it does: https://webdriver.io/docs/api/browser/keys
here's what you could try:
(pidgin-code, attention)

const wdioViaWdi5Input = await browser.asControl(selector).$().$("input") // see https://ui5-community.github.io/wdi5/#/recipes?id=using-wdio-functions
await wdioViaWdi5Input.setValue("") // dummy to bring focus to the <input>
await browser.keys(['Ctrl', 'v']) // send strg+v to the focused <input>

[Scotti-Scholter-Marichal]

This worked for me! Instead of .setValue("") I had to use .click() to focus on the input item. Could you ellaborate what the .$("input") does in this case?
Thanks a lot!

[vobu]

browser.asControl(...).$() transitions from the wdi5 fluent async api to the wdio api.
The subsequent $("input") sub-selects from the previous element, specifically the <input> tag