Is it possible to write these Protractor expectations using no continuations?

Question

Using protractor and jasmine(wd) we want to check that a table on the web page contains expected values. We get fetch the table from the page using a CSS selector:

var table = element(by.css('table#forderungenTable')).all(by.tagName('tr'));

We then set our expectations:

table.then(function(forderungen){
...
    forderungen[2].all(by.tagName('td')).then(function(columns){
        expect(columns[1].getText()).toEqual('1');
        expect(columns[5].getText()).toEqual('CHF 277.00');
    });
});

Is it possible to change this code so that we don't have to pass functions to then, in the same way that using jasminewd means that we don't have to do this? See this page, which states:

Protractor uses jasminewd, which wraps around jasmine's expect so that you can write:

expect(el.getText()).toBe('Hello, World!')

Instead of:

el.getText().then(function(text) {
    expect(text).toBe('Hello, World!');
});

I know that I could write my own functions in a way similar to which jasminewd does it, but I want know if there is a better way to construct such expectations using constructs already available in protractor or jasminewd.

forderungen is german => one forderung is one row in the table — Ant Kutschera, Sep 09 '15 at 11:40
Sorry @alecxe, I 'd been waiting for more answers to see if anything better came along and then I forgot to accept it :-( — Ant Kutschera, Nov 14 '15 at 18:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '15 at 13:53

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You can actually call getText() on an ElementArrayFinder:

var texts = element(by.css('table#forderungenTable')).all(by.tagName('tr')).get(2).all(by.tagName('td'));

expect(texts).toEqual(["text1", "text2", "text3"]);

answered Sep 09 '15 at 13:53

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Is it possible to write these Protractor expectations using no continuations?

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