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Documentation: Workflow how to change values in "Select" dropdown

Open mrustl opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

I found an outdated answer on this topic on Stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/a/42417208) by the original author John Harrison of RSelenium. However it is not working with the latest CRAN release of RSelenium 1.7.5:

library(RSelenium)

rD <- rsDriver(verbose = F)
remDr <- rD$client
remDr$navigate("http://jamaserv.jama.or.jp/newdb/eng/index.html")

## Switch to left frame
frameElems <- remDr$findElements(using = "tag name", "frame")
sapply(frameElems, function(x){x$getElementAttribute("src")})
remDr$switchToFrame(frameElems[[1]])

webElem <- remDr$findElement(using = 'xpath', "//select[@name='txtTargetToMm']")
opts <- webElem$selectTag()

> opts$text
[1] "JANUARY"   "FEBRUARY"  "MARCH"     "APRIL"     "MAY"       "JUNE"      "JULY"      "AUGUST"   
[9] "SEPTEMBER" "OCTOBER"   "NOVEMBER"  "DECEMBER" 
> opts$value
[1] "1"  "2"  "3"  "4"  "5"  "6"  "7"  "8"  "9"  "10" "11" "12"
> opts$selected
[1] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE

# select the third month (march)
opts$elements[[3]]$clickElement()

# check whether it is selected
opts <- webElem$selectTag()
opts$selected

> opts$selected
[1] FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE

rm(rD)
gc()

Any ideas how this can be simply done in RSelenium 1.7.5?

mrustl avatar Sep 24 '19 22:09 mrustl