By is not a function in selenium nightwatch

Question

I could not use the default By commands in selenium. Below is my script

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='lotstatus_q']/div/table/tbody/tr"));

my script is failing and the result is this:By is not a function

is there any other items that I need to install?

All other By commands are not functioning.

Did you import all selenium JARs? – Helping Hands May 08 '15 at 07:19 — Helping Hands, May 08 '15 at 07:19
Did U start wrom working example? which language of script? – SkorpEN May 18 '15 at 11:46 — SkorpEN, May 18 '15 at 11:46

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 18 '15 at 11:32

I think you made a mistake, you cannot directly access to Selenium API from Nightwatch.js !

Nightwatch is just an override of the WebDriver Wire Protocole (exposed by Selenium as REST API) https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/JsonWireProtocol

But you can use XPath selectors with Nightwatch:

client.useXpath().waitForElementVisible("//*[@id='lotstatus_q']/div/table/tbody/tr")

Read the doc about XPath: http://nightwatchjs.org/guide#using-xpath-selectors

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 01 '15 at 00:42

You cannot apply the regular Java patterns with NightWatchJS and also NightWatch Apis does not work that way...

Please see the API docs on how you can use http://nightwatchjs.org/api#commands

I think you are trying to do

browser.elements("css locator" , "value of your css", function (result){
     // here result is the return from calling selenium wire protocol /elements
     // Using the identifier of your CSS locators
})

By is not a function in selenium nightwatch

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