How to check element properties in iOS gui automation?

Question

All UI Automation examples I\'ve seen uses standard components whose state can be inspected with the JavaScript API using the value() method. This is a bit limi

Answer 1

I ended up with this approach which works for my purposes:

Let UIView.accessibilityValue return a JSON string with relevant properties:

- (NSString *)accessibilityValue
{
    return [NSString stringWithFormat:
            @"{'alpha':%f, 'isSelected':%@}", 
            self.alpha, self.isSelected ? @"true" : @"false"];
}

Then use eval() in the test code and check those properties. value() is shorthand for calling accessibilityValue:

var props = eval("(" + element.value() + ")");

if (props.isSelected) {
    UIALogger.logFail("Should not be selected");
}

UIATarget.localTarget().tap({"x":471, "y":337});

var props = eval("(" + element.value() + ")");

if (!props.isSelected) {
    UIALogger.logFail("Should be selected");
}