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[Question] Supporting Locator as an argument to page.locator()? #16574
Description
As per the docs, I keep elements on my page objects as Locators. Often times, I'll have something like
container = this.page.locator('.container');
container-button = this.page.locator('button');
container-title = this.page.locator('h3');
And it's often the case that container-button and container-title are children of container in the DOM.
If I have multiple .container elements on the page, I will want to filter one down, maybe with something like container.filter({ hasText: 'foo123')} that is determined solely at runtime.
Now, if I want to access any of my predefined container-button or container-title locators that are inside this runtime-decided container, I was hoping to just be able to do:
container.locator(container-button) to give me the button element within that arbitrary container. But, locator() only allows a selector string to be passed in, so my obviously option is to define both a selector string and locator in the PageObject class, e.g. container-button-css: string and container-button: Locator, then I can use something like
container.locator(container-button-css)
But it's inelegant because I'm maintaining two properties. Just wondering what the best approach is with something like this? It would be nice if .locator() supported Locators themselves, or alternatively you could extract some kind of Locator.selectorText property from it.
Any thoughts?
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CtrlZvi commentedon Aug 27, 2022
I believe this already exists. Take a look at the
hasfilter for locators.np-xavier commentedon Aug 30, 2022
It's slightly more subtle - that gives me the element containing the sub-element, I need the sub-element itself. It's more down to the fact I have to pass it a text selector, and I can't pass it a Locator. My PageObjects all use Locators.
mburns02 commentedon Jan 6, 2023
bump
heygarrett commentedon Mar 26, 2023
I'm not sure when it was added, but this seems to exist now:
Edit: I forgot to include a link to the docs:
https://playwright.dev/docs/locators#chaining-locators
Edit 2: I didn't realize this had only been updated for the Locator.locator method, not the Page.locator method. I wonder why. 🤔
pavelfeldman commentedon Nov 17, 2023
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