IBM RFT – Descriptive Programming – Iteratively finding object in the application with time out.

IBM RFT – Descriptive Programming – Iteratively finding object  in the application with time out.

In RFT we have waitforExistence() method to wait till the application loads and object appears, but some time if the application itself is not loaded, RFT waits for an indefinite time, and execution does not proceeds. To overcome this issue we can find the object iteratively in application considering some Timeout duration defined in Frameworks Environment Variable file.

public TestObject[] find_object_iteratively (TestObject root_object, String [] elem_attribute_name, String [] elem_attribute_value)

                {             

                                int timeout=0;

                                double sleep_time=0.1;

                                double timeout_wait= 20.0; // this is hard coded value can be retrived from environment variable file.

                                TestObject[] reqObjects = root_object.find(atDescendant(elem_attribute_name[0].toString(),elem_attribute_value[0].toString(),elem_attribute_name[1].toString(),elem_attribute_value[1].toString()), false);

                                while (reqObjects.length == 0)

                                {

                                sleep(sleep_time);

                                timeout++;

                                reqObjects = root_object.find(atDescendant(elem_attribute_name[0].toString(),elem_attribute_value[0].toString(),elem_attribute_name[1].toString(),elem_attribute_value[1].toString()), false);

                                if (timeout>=timeout_wait) {

                                                timeout=0;break;

                                }

                                }

                                if (html_element.length == 0)

                                {

                                                logTestResult ("Object with Properties :"+elem_attribute_name[0].toString()+":"+elem_attribute_value[0].toString()+","+elem_attribute_name[1].toString()+":"+elem_attribute_value[1].toString()+ " Not found in the screen",false);

                                return null;

                                }

                                else

                                {

                                                logTestResult ("Object with Properties :"+elem_attribute_name[0].toString()+":"+elem_attribute_value[0].toString()+","+elem_attribute_name[1].toString()+":"+elem_attribute_value[1].toString()+ " found in the screen",true);

                                               

                                return reqObjects;

                                }

                }