Nrthugu

Is there a way to check if an element is present without using expect with Detox? Right now I'm having to nest my logic in try/catch blocks to control the flow of a test to mitigate flakiness as it checks the state of a screen before moving forward with the test. I would much rather be able to do with using if/else.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Not the most elegant solution but I have used the following to stream line my code.

In a helper file, I create functions that wrap the try/catch, and return true/false:

For example:

const expectToBeVisible = async (id) => {

  try {

    await expect(element(by.id(id))).toBeVisible();

    return true;

  } catch (e) {

    return false;

  }

};



module.exports = { expectToBeVisible };

Then when I am performing tests that depend on that element being visible or not I can do the following:

import { expectToBeVisible } from './helpers';



describe('Test', () => {



  ...



  it('If button is visible do X else do Y', async () => {

    let buttonVisible = await expectToBeVisible('button');



    if (buttonVisible) {

      // do something with that button

    } else {

      // do something else as the button isn't visible

    }

  });



 ...

});

This isn't the best solution but until Detox come up with the ability to have if/else then it could suffice in a pinch.