How to enter text into a textfield in a web view using UIAutomation

Question

My iOS app has a log-in page with username and password textfields. These text fields are in a web view. I am trying to automate the log-in process with UIAutomation. I know that working with content in a web view with UIAutomation is tricky. I am able to tap into the text fields using target.tap({x:100, y:200}); but I want to have UIAutomation enter text after the field has been tapped. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

You can do something like:

1. Get the reference to the webview

   var webView=window.scrollViews()[0].webViews()[0];
   

2. Tap the textView that you want to edit:

   webView.textFields()[0].tap();
   

3. Use the keyboard

   UIATarget.localTarget().frontMostApp().keyboard().typeString("text");
   

You can use: webView.logElementTree() to find out your webview.

Answer 2

Yes this is quite possible but instead of going through the position of the text field, I'd suggest going through the id/name of the text field. Another approach is to traverse the application window.

Try following this apple's documentation - http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/UsingtheAutomationInstrument/UsingtheAutomationInstrument.html

This will give you a head start and many other ideas.