Is there any "Selector"? about thirtyfour

[stevepryde]

I've added SelectElement in v0.22.2, which is a fairly direct port of the Select class from the python selenium library.

[stevepryde]

The Select class in the python library is just a convenient wrapper around existing functionality. It uses WebElement.find_elements() to find any descendants with the "option" tag and then essentially applies a predicate to these options to figure out which one to click.

Thus far I've avoided adding a similar wrapper because:
(a) actual <select> elements are far less common these days (modern frameworks like bootstrap and material-ui code do dropdowns differently), and
(b) the python implementation actually doesn't open the dropdown (it "clicks" the option element directly) which might be undesirable if you're aiming to mimic what a user might do. For multi-select there is no "dropdown" so it's fine in that case.

To implement this yourself all you need to do is something like this (using your code as an example):

let elem = driver.find_element(By::Id("s1Id")).await?;
// Then one of the following depending on which type of search you want.

// By index.
elem.find_elements(By::Tag("option")).await?[1].click().await?;
// By value.
elem.find_element(By::XPath("option[@value='o2']")).await?.click().await?;
// By visible text - the python one is more complicated but I'm not sure you need it
elem.find_element(By::XPath("option[contains(text(), 'o3')]")).await?.click().await?;

I haven't tested this but some variant of it should work. Obviously the python implementation covers multi-select lists as well.
In the meantime I will leave this issue open and look at adding an official wrapper similar to the python one sometime.

[eucylin]

Ah, that makes sense! I tried the method you provided and it worked well as expected.
I'll also try the new Select class sometime.
Really appreciate your quick response. 😄