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Is there a NOT operator in calabash query syntax?

The title pretty well covers my question. How can I (for instance) obtain all the TextView elements whose IDs do NOT CONTAIN "some_prefix"? I can obtain all TextView elements and iterate over them, kicking out the ones I don't like (and I probably will), but I'd rather have a clear query which does that for me.

Solution

  • It's inefficient, but you can do:

    query("android.widget.TextView") -
    query("android.widget.TextView {id CONTAINS[c] 'some_prefix'}")

    The first query gets the set of all TextViews, then excludes those that contain 'some_prefix' as returned in the second query.