Chaining locators with lists does not work with Robot Framework 6.1 or above #1962
Description
Giving chained locator as a list of locators seems not to work since Robot Framework 6.1.0. Tested with Chrome and Firefox using test web page and test case given below. The first chained locator with >> finds the element, but latter with list does not . With Robot Framework 6.0.1 works fine. Tested also with RF 7.4.1 and not working.
I did some research in the SeleniumLibrary's code, and problem seems to be with the type annotations of the keywords. For example:
def click_element(
self,
locator: Union[WebElement, str],
modifier: Union[bool, str] = False,
action_chain: bool = False,
):
locator's type annotation should be `Union[WebElement, str, list]´. If I chance that, my test code passes.
Software and versions
SeleniumLibrary: 6.8.0
Robot Framework: 6.1 and 7.4.1
robotframework-pythonlibcore: 4.5.0
Python: 3.11.9
Chrome: 143.0.7499.171
ChromeDriver: 143.0.7499.40
Firefox: 147.0.1
Gecko Driver: 0.36.0
Example HTML
<html>
<head>
<title>Locator Chain Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<button id="testElement">This is a test</button>
</body>
</html>
Example test case
*** Settings ***
Library SeleniumLibrary
*** Test Cases ***
Locator Chain Test
Open Browser [test_file_path] chrome
Click Element tag:body >> id:testElement
${locator_chain} Create List tag:body id:testElement
Click Element ${locator_chain}