Error while trying out touch actions using Appium

Question

Below is my code:

package AppiumPackage;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.touch.TouchActions;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.Augmenter;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterTest;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement;
import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidElement;
import io.appium.java_client.remote.MobileBrowserType;
import io.appium.java_client.remote.MobileCapabilityType;
import io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumDriverLocalService;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.List;

public class AppiumClass {
    AppiumDriver driver;
    WebDriverWait wait;
    String AppURL = "https://www.ndtv.com/";

    @BeforeTest
    public void setup() throws MalformedURLException {

        // Create an object for Desired Capabilities
        DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();

        capabilities.setCapability("chromedriverExecutable", "C:/Users/Madankumar/Desktop/Chrome Driver/chromedriver.exe");

        // Name of mobile web browser to automate. ‘Safari’ for iOS and ‘Chrome’
        // or ‘Browser’ for Android
        //capabilities.setCapability("browsername", "Chrome");
        capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME,MobileBrowserType.CHROME);

        // The kind of mobile device or emulator to use - iPad Simulator, iPhone
        // Retina 4-inch, Android Emulator, Galaxy S4 etc
        capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "919d8316");

        // Which mobile OS platform to use - iOS, Android, or FirefoxOS
        capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");

        // Java package of the Android app you want to run- Ex:
        // com.example.android.myApp
        capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.android.chrome");

        // Activity name for the Android activity you want to launch from your
        // package
        capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.google.android.apps.chrome.Main");
        capabilities.setCapability("autoAcceptAlerts", false);

        // Initialize the driver object with the URL to Appium Server and
        // passing the capabilities
        driver = new AppiumDriver(new URL("http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
        wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 5);
    }

    @Test
    public void testSearchAppium() throws Throwable {

        driver.get(AppURL);
        Thread.sleep(2000);
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='notnow']")).click();
        Thread.sleep(2000);
        TouchActions actions=new TouchActions(driver);
        actions.longPress(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='scroll__nav-link active-nav']"))).perform();
        Thread.sleep(3000);
        actions.flick(20, 0);


    }    

    /*
    @AfterTest
    public void tearDown() {
        driver.quit();
    }
    */

}

On running the class from Eclipse IDE getting below error:

May 12, 2018 12:12:25 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession INFO: Detected dialect: OSSenter code here FAILED: testSearchAppium java.lang.ClassCastException: io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver cannot be cast to org.openqa.selenium.interactions.HasTouchScreen at org.openqa.selenium.interactions.touch.TouchActions.(TouchActions.java:38) at AppiumPackage.AppiumClass.testSearchAppium(AppiumClass.java:77) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:124) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:580) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:716) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:988) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:125) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:109) at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:648) at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:505) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:455) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:450) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:415) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:364) at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52) at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:84) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1208) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1137) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1049) at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1017) at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:132) at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:230) at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:76)

Piyali Debnath · Answer 1 · 2018-05-15T15:13:53.073

4

TouchAction class related to Appium JAVA Client jar,not related to selenium.

Remove import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.touch.TouchActions package and import Appium JAVA Client jar.

Do your code like this :

public void testSearchAppium() throws Throwable 
{ 
   driver.get(AppURL); 
   Thread.sleep(2000); 
   MobileElement notNow=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='notnow']"));  
   TouchAction actions=new TouchAction((PerformsTouchActions) driver); 
   actions.tap(notNow).perform(); 
}

edited May 15 '18 at 15:13

answered May 15 '18 at 09:27

Piyali Debnath

81
4

Added this import import io.appium.java_client.PerformsTouchActions; import io.appium.java_client.TouchAction; Modified the code as public void testSearchAppium() throws Throwable { driver.get(AppURL); Thread.sleep(2000); WebElement notNow=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='notnow']")); //notNow.click(); TouchAction actions=new TouchAction((PerformsTouchActions) driver); actions.tap(notNow); Error as "FAILED: testSearchAppium java.lang.ClassCastException: org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver cannot be cast to io.appium.java_client.PerformsTouchActions" – Madan May 15 '18 at 14:39
Getting the same error, but im using Eventfiringwebdriver so my code is like below new TouchAction((PerformsTouchActions) (AppiumDriver)driver), but still getting unable to cast the eventfiringwebdriver to appiumdriver... any idea on this? – Madhu Velpuri Apr 26 '21 at 11:06

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

The working solution for this issue is in the following link.

ClassCastException with new Appium-java TouchActions

Re-writing the solution here again

Use io.appium.java_client.TouchAction class.

Step 1

TouchAction action = new TouchAction(driver);

Here driver is an instance of AppiumDriver.

Step 2

WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.id("locator"));

action.tap(new TapOptions().withElement(new ElementOption().withElement(ele))).perform();

With the new implementation of TouchAction you cannot directly pass weblement.

dependency used

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.appium</groupId>
    <artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
    <version>7.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Hope it helps.

Error while trying out touch actions using Appium

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