I am new to Groovy programing and I am currently trying to test a web app with Geb and Spock on IntelliJ IDE. I wanted to try a simple script first without using Spock, that is why I use a simple main class for creating Browser and so on and run some basic tests (understand: verifying if I am at the correct page).
Everything was working well but I had a lot of page class that were melt in the same folder as my main class, modules and so on. So I decided to clean up by using packages. Here is my project folders:
src
---main
------groovy
------------app
---------------module
---------------pages
---------------templates
module folder contains the modules used in my pages pages folder contains the actual page the browser will browse templates folder contains some super pages class for not repeating content through pages instances.
My class Main with main method is in app folder.
So I re-run the code that was previously working well (when every source files were in the same folder) and I get an error Exception in thread "main" groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: homePage for class: app.pages.loginPage
The line that seems to be the problem is this one (in loginPage.groovy) :
loginButton(to: homePage){$("input", id: "loginButton_submit")}
Which is in the static content of loginPage class.
I don't understand why I get this error as loginPage and homePage are in the same package. I guess I don't understand some groovy stuff here or compiling mechanics.
Here is the error messages I got :
The package is the correct one both in homePage and loginPage (they are in the same one) so the class seems to be resolved. But when running, `homePage` is considered as a static property of `loginPage`I suppose and as it is not declared in `loginPage` properties it cannot work. Here is my log :
Exception in thread "main" groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: homePage for class: app.pages.loginPage
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeStaticMissingProperty(MetaClassImpl.java:1004)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.getProperty(MetaClassImpl.java:1859)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.getProperty(MetaClassImpl.java:1835)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.getProperty(MetaClassImpl.java:3735)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.getProperty(InvokerHelper.java:175)
at groovy.lang.Closure.getPropertyTryThese(Closure.java:312)
at groovy.lang.Closure.getPropertyOwnerFirst(Closure.java:306)
at groovy.lang.Closure.getProperty(Closure.java:295)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoGetPropertySite.getProperty(PogoGetPropertySite.java:50)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callGroovyObjectGetProperty(AbstractCallSite.java:307)
at app.pages.loginPage$__clinit__closure4.doCall(loginPage.groovy:28)...
Do you have any ideas ?
Check to see if the package your homePage belongs to was updated when you moved it from "main" to "pages":
package app.pages
class homePage extends Page {
}
If the package is incorrect or undeclared on the homePage class your loginPage will not be able to resolve it