UIAutomation - Check the message in Alert and compare it with expected message

Question

I am working on alerts in UIAutomation. When I encounter an alert, I am supposed to ensure that the alert title and message are the same as expected. I have done this to get access for alert title.

var AlertTitle = target.frontMostApp().alert().name();
UIALogger.logMessage(AlertTitle);

In the similar way, is there any way to retrieve the message in alert ? I have tried using

target.frontMostApp().alert().value(); 

but it did not work. I have logged the element tree and got this.

UIAAlert
 |
 UIAImage
 UIAStaticField name: Abc value: ABc
 UIAStaticField name: XYZ value: XYZ
 UIAButton

I need to retrieve the value of second UIAStaticField in this alert and compare with expected value. How do I do that ?

I tried doing this but it didn't work.

target.frontMostApp().alert().staticTexts[1]().value();

Answer 1

You're so close! You've got the parentheses and brackets backward in your line. Do it this way:

target.frontMostApp().alert().staticTexts()[1].value();

That way, you are calling the staticTexts() method on the alert to get the element array and then using the bracket syntax to get the second element.