Expectations throw stale element exceptions but still pass

[StephenDavidson]

I have currently have an inline search that will swap elements when you search, but the page does not change. In order to wait for the search result I use an expectation for text. The waitForConditionTimeout is set.

The issue comes up, that my assertions pass, but I receive a few stale element exceptions. What is the expected behavior for this? My jenkins jobs will fail but my assertions will all pass, and I am unable to catch the stale element exception. Thanks.

proposalPage.section.firstSearchResult.expect.element('@headingText').text.to.equal('Team');

Test output:

 ✔ Expected element <.section-picker-component .button-component--primary> to be visible - condition was met in 17ms
    stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document
  (Session info: chrome=45.0.2454.85)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.19.346063 (38b35413bd4a486d436a9749e090454bc9ff6708),platform=Mac OS X 10.10.5 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 78 milliseconds
For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/stale_element_reference.html
Build info: version: '2.47.1', revision: '411b314', time: '2015-07-30 03:03:16'
System info: host: 'Stephens-MacBook-Pro.local', ip: '10.228.138.86', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.10.5', java.version: '1.8.0_60'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
Capabilities [{applicationCacheEnabled=false, rotatable=false, mobileEmulationEnabled=false, chrome={userDataDir=/var/folders/gf/1fvy4m1s7x18fjl7d3g45q140000gn/T/.org.chromium.Chromium.Nls25i}, takesHeapSnapshot=true, databaseEnabled=false, handlesAlerts=true, hasTouchScreen=false, version=45.0.2454.85, platform=MAC, browserConnectionEnabled=false, nativeEvents=true, acceptSslCerts=true, locationContextEnabled=true, webStorageEnabled=true, browserName=chrome, takesScreenshot=true, javascriptEnabled=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true}]
Session ID: a55dd97ebe163be81e89ac5b16eeb1d8

For more information about the error run with --verbose option.
 ✔ Expected element <Section[name=firstSearchResult],Element[name=@headingText]> text to equal: "Team" - condition was met in 1924ms

[MateuszJeziorski]

There were 2 similar issues reported. What nightwatch version do you use? The 0.8.3 contains the fix for this problem

[StephenDavidson]

0.8.2, updated to 0.8.3 and it works now.