How to getText on an input in protractor

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In the documentation for protractor  I see the following example   describe  by model   function       it  should find an element by text input model   function         var username   element by model  username         username clear        username sendKeys  Jane Doe         var name   element by binding  username          expect name getText    toEqual  Jane Doe            What appears clear here is that you can use  by model  to set values in an input box  but if you want to look at an input box and see what s in it  you need to use  by binding    I have a set of code where  in summary  I do   element by model  risk name    sendKeys  A value    expect element by model  risk name    getText    toEqual  A value       in my real code I save the entity then come back to it in edit mode  and I m checking my value was actually saved   But it still boils down to the same thing  and this sample code gives the same problem    This gives me an error   Error  Expected    to equal  A value     In theory  following the example from the docs  I can instead do   element by model  risk name    sendKeys  A value    expect element by binding  risk name   getText    toEqual  A value      But the by binding doesn t appear to like the fully qualified model  I get an error     Error  No element found using locator  by binding  risk name     It does work  after a fashion  if I do   element by model  risk name    sendKeys  A value    expect element by binding  name    getText    toEqual  A value      This finds an element  but also gives a warning that I have more than one element that matches  name    And unfortunately the one it picks isn t the right one     So  two questions    Should the by model be able to return a getText    or is there a design decision that it not do that and we need to use by binding instead  Should I be able to use a fully qualified entity in the by binding  or is there a design decision that by binding doesn t like the full model name   If so  what other qualifier can I use to select between my different bindings    EDIT   I have also tried the solution suggested by vdrulerz  I modified the code as follows   element by model  risk name    getText   then function text      console log text     expect text  toEqual  A risk name            The console log is returning a blank value  not a promise or an object   and the expect fails giving the message   Expected    to equal  A risk name     My understanding is that protractor already patches the expect to deal with the promise  so I feel that the underlying problem is the getText not working on a field identified via a model  I can successfully getText on labels and other widgets    I can also run the following code  using getAttribute rather than getText     expect element by model  risk name    getAttribute  autofocus    toEqual  true    element by model  risk name    getAttribute  autofocus   then function text      console log text     expect text  toEqual  true            The first part passes - the expect works   The second part also works  suggesting that vdrulerz  syntax is also valid  and it logs  true  to the console   I think there is potentially a defect with getText

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You can try something like this  var access token   driver findElement webdriver By name  AccToken             var access token getTextFunction   function                 access token getText   then function value                    console log value                   return value                              Than you can call this function where you want to get the value

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This code works   I have a date input field that has been set to read only which forces the user to select from the calendar     for a start date   var updateInput    var input   document getElementById  startDateInput            input value    18-Jan-2016           angular element input  scope    apply function s    s  parent  searchForm input name   setViewValue input value       browser executeScript updateInput     for an end date   var updateInput    var input   document getElementById  endDateInput            input value    22-Jan-2016           angular element input  scope    apply function s    s  parent searchForm input name   setViewValue input value           browser executeScript updateInput

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You can use jQuery to get text in textbox  work well for me   check in image detail  Code     document evaluate   xpath   document  null  XPathResult FIRST ORDERED NODE TYPE  null   singleNodeValue  val    Example     document evaluate        id  mail     document  null  XPathResult FIRST ORDERED NODE TYPE  null   singleNodeValue  val     Inject this above query to your code  Image detail

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below code works for me  for getting text from input     return this webelement getAttribute  value   then function text                console log  --------    text

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getText   function won t work like the way it used to be for webdriver  in order to get it work for protractor you will need to wrap it in a function and return the text something like we did for our protractor framework we have kept it in a common function like -  getText   function element  callback            element getText   then  function text                            callback text                                  By this you can have the text of an element   Let me know if it is still unclear

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You have to use Promise to print or store values of element     var ExpectedValue string   AllTestings com             element by id  xyz    getAttribute  value   then function  Text                             expect Text trim    toEqual  ExpectedValue    Wrong page navigated     Assertion         console log  Text     Print here in Console

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I had this issue I tried Jmr s solution however it didn t work for me  As all input fields have ng-model attributes I could pull the the attribute and evaluate it and get the value   HTML   lt input ng-model  qty  type  number  gt    Protractor  var qty   element  by model  qty      qty sendKeys  10    qty evaluate qty getAttribute  ng-model      - gt  10

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This is answered in the Protractor FAQ  https   github com angular protractor blob master docs faq md the-result-of-gettext-from-an-input-element-is-always-empty  The result of getText from an input element is always empty  This is a webdriver quirk   and  elements always have empty getText values  Instead  try   element getAttribute  value     As for question 2  yes  you should be able to use a fully qualified name for by binding  I suspect that your template does not actually having an element that is bound to risk name via      or ng-bind

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