During my testing inside of SAP Hybris I’ve met an issue with the component I believed that nothing can go wrong. Namely it is a simple component containing the Description for the item (promotion in this case).
Here is my initial cypress command:
cy.get('.ye-input-text.ye-com_hybris_cockpitng_editor_defaulttext.z-textbox')
.should('have.value', 'All users are able to try a ZYN can as a free sample (or free gift). Limited to 1 per registered user');
With this command I’ve received the following issue:
Now, as much I understand it, it suggests that there are multiple elements on the page containing the same class name (which is lets say true), but in that case I would expect for example the choose multiple elements error or the one suggesting to use the .eq() command or so. Although from the error message I understand that Cypress went through all 9 elements it found with the given class name but none contained the value requested.
Here is the HTML of the element I’m referring to:
<div id="p41H029" class="yw-loceditor-row ye-validation-none z-div">
<span id="p41H129" style="display:none;" class="yw-loceditor-row-locale z-label" title="English">en</span>
<div id="p41H229" class="yw-loceditor-row-editor z-div"><div id="p41H329" class="z-div">
<input id="p41H429" class="ye-input-text ye-com_hybris_cockpitng_editor_defaulttext z-textbox" value="All users are able to try a ZYN can as a free sample (or free gift). Limited to 1 per registered user" type="text" aria-disabled="false" aria-readonly="false"></div></div></div>
Another Cypress command I’ve tried out is this one (but it didn’t work):
cy.contains('All users are able to try a ZYN can as a free sample (or free gift). Limited to 1 per registered user')
.parents('.yw-loceditor-row.z-div') // Go up to the parent row
.find('input') // Then find the input
.should('have.value', 'All users are able to try a ZYN can as a free sample (or free gift). Limited to 1 per registered user');
});
});
The short answer is, be a bit more specific in the selection of the one <input> that has this value.
You can see in the message
assert expected [ <input#p41H429.ye-input-text.ye-com_hybris_cockpitng_editor_defaulttext.z-textbox>, 8 more… ]
which means there are nine elements selected in total.
If I run a similar test, with three inputs and the value I want is on the second input, it fails when comparing the value of the first input.
<input
class="ye-input-text ye-com_hybris_cockpitng_editor_defaulttext z-textbox"
value="Some promotion"
/>
<input
class="ye-input-text ye-com_hybris_cockpitng_editor_defaulttext z-textbox"
value="My specific promotion"
/>
<input
class="ye-input-text ye-com_hybris_cockpitng_editor_defaulttext z-textbox"
value="Some other promotion"
/>
cy.get('.ye-input-text.ye-com_hybris_cockpitng_editor_defaulttext.z-textbox')
.should('have.value', 'My specific promotion');
If I make the selection more specific, by using the [value="..."] selector, so only one element is selected – it passes.
cy.get(`.ye-input-text[value="My specific promotion"]`)
.should('have.value', 'My specific promotion');
You can also use other selectors such as eq(1) to pick just one <input> element to test.
What’s the rule?
When you use .should('have.value', ...) following a cy.get() that returns multiple elements, it’s equivalent to
cy.get(...) // multiple elements selected
.invoke('val') // extract value of only the first element
.should('eq', 'some value') // test the value
So only the first element gets tested, the rest are ignored.
The above is the “standard” way to test a value of an input.