Scenario: I'm using Android Robotium Solo (v5.6.3) to automate web page interactions within my app. I need to automate data entry into INPUT fields that are contained within an IFRAME but I do not have much luck!
The Problem: When I attempt to use, for example, solo.waitForWebElement(By.id("room-number", 5000, true) and solo.typeTextInWebElement(By.id("room-number", "101"), solo is unable to locate the element.
The discussion on this related issue "Accessing an iFrame inside a WebView #794" (https://github.com/RobotiumTech/robotium/issues/794), suggests that it's possible to use "solo.getConfig().webFrame = XXX" to focus solo on the content of a specific IFRAME and then access the WebElements. Unfortunately, I've not been able to get it to work and haven't been able to find any full examples. I assume XXX might need to be the "id" of the IFRAME but in my scenario (where I don't have control of the source code for the web pages being automated) the IFRAME tag has no id assigned.
I've created a simple example test scenario:
index.html - the main page that hosts the IFRAME
<html>
<body bgcolor="#AA3333">
<div id="wrapper">
<iframe src="embed.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0"></iframe>
</div>
</body>
</html>
embed.html - the source for the IFRAME that contains the INPUT element.
<html>
<body bgcolor="#3333AA">
<div id="page-container" style="height:100vh; width:100%;">
<label>Room Number</label>
<input type="text" name="ROOM_NUMBER" id="room-number">
</div>
</body>
</html>
After reviewing the source code for Robotium in more detail I confirmed that using
allows subsequent calls to solo.typeTextInWebElement etc. to work OK as expected.
The trick in my scenario is that the parent page assigned no id to the IFRAME so I programatically assign one at runtime using the following javascript
and then use