Create page objects with KIF

[Przemyslaw-Wosko]

Hi, i wanted to create PageObjects with KIF, so i extended KIFTestActor and create helpers for each sceen in app.
Now the problem is that every exception make crash.
How should i init objects that inherit from KIFTestActor?

[phatmann]

Can you share some code? I have done something similar in the past and I had no issues like this,

[Przemyslaw-Wosko]

let's say we have Login screen to test, so i would like to create LoginPageObject

@interface LoginPageObject : KIFTestActor
- (void)loginTap;
@end

@implementation LoginPageObject
- (void)loginTap {
    [tester tapViewWithAccessibilityLabel:@"Login_button"]; // just simple code to clarify the problem
}
@end

i created this class with [LoginPageObject new]
and now, when view is not present on the screen, exception crash test and test failure hint is not showing up in tests file. latter i tried initWithFile:atLine:delegate but it's hard to find line when somethings goes wrong with test case.

i managed to fix this by using "tester-like" macro, placed in LoginPageObject:

#define login KIFActorWithClass(LoginPageObject)

now it seems to be work fine, but i don't want to invoke methods on macro

[phatmann]

This was "fixed" by #849, which basically forces you to use the macro approach. So your workaround is correct.

I am hoping we can get rid of the macros at some point. But for now we are stuck with them.

[Przemyslaw-Wosko]

for that, entire exception handling mechanism would have to change, now i'm aware of this.
i will try to make pull request with better solution ;)

[phatmann]

If you can find a macro-less solution that @bnickel approves of, you will be the new KIF hero :-)

[Przemyslaw-Wosko]

Just update for those that want to make Page Object before kif refactor - the workaround i made seems to be working for KIF, but don't work for OCMockito, xcode just mark line that failed in PageObject class, in tests it's not visible

[phatmann]

Thanks for the update.

[setv-n13]

Is it possible to make something similar in Swift (since there are no macros in Swift)?