Angular testing: Protractor can't get input value

Question

I'm new to Protractor..I think I understood the basic principles in spite of the lacking documentation, but I can't find a way to solve this problem.

Given this code:

ptor.findElement(protractor.By.input('canvas.description')).sendKeys('My description');
var description = ptor.findElement(protractor.By.input('canvas.description'));
expect(description.getText()).toEqual('My description');

I can see that the input gets the text it's inserting and the model updates with the same value, but the test failures 'cause description.getText() returns '' (empty string).

Is there a different way to catch values inside inputs?

Thanks in advance.

score 47 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 04 '15 at 12:21

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Apparently there is a quirk with Selenium WebDriver. See here.

Try:

description.getAttribute('value');

Note, that getAttribute returns a promise, so if you need to use this value somehow you'll have to use a then clause:

description.getAttribute('value').then(function(value){
    //Do something with value
});

edited Sep 04 '15 at 12:21

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By changing getAttributes with getAttribute, it works. Thanks! – Vito Schiavo Oct 23 '13 at 14:49
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Note: `getAttribute('value`)` returns a promise so you'll need to do something like this: `getAttribute('value').then(function(value){ console.log(value) });` – Pablo Jun 15 '15 at 09:08
chromedriver: chromedriver_91.0.4472.101 element value is `null` – Juliano Vargas Jul 26 '21 at 15:28

Angular testing: Protractor can't get input value

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