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Adress div in XPath with nested properties inside this div

we want to automate an web application with Robot framework/SeleniumLibrary. The app contains some tables, which do not have simple unique identifiers like id/name/class... They only can be uniquely identified via a nested property. Here a sample excerpt of the properties window (DevTools)

grid: window.<computed>
  > FormSubmitOnlyChanged : true
  > ...
  >  _dataprocessor: dataProcessor
    > autoUpdate: false
    > ...
    > serverProcessor: "/TEST/GridNew/multi?group=getMetaData&name=Sources&editing=true"
    > ...
  > ...
...

The Element looks as following: enter image description here * The id parameter contains an dynamic id and can therefore not be used for object identification.

We tried some approaches, e.g.

//div[contains(@grid._dataprocessor.serverProcessor, 'group=getMetaData&name=Sources')]

or

//div[contains(@serverProcessor, 'group=getMetaData&name=Sources')]

but none of them did work. Does anybody have an idea how to get an XPath that makes it possible to contain the nested property? Thank you in advance.

Solution

  • The developers now managed it to set an id manually to overwrite the generated dynamic ID. Furthermore, after more research, it seems to be not possible to use this property for XPath.