Protractor Check if Element Does Not Exist

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Sakamoto Kazuma picture Sakamoto Kazuma · Aug 14, 2014 · Viewed 46.4k times · Source

I have a setting in my angular based website that turns a dropdown on and off. If it is off, then it does not show on the main page.

With Protractor, I need to check to see if this element is not present when the switch is off. However, I should not be thrown into Element Not Found Error, as it is one test in a set of many. How should I do this?

I have tried to do: 

expect($$('.switch').count()).to.equal(0).and.notify(next);

But I am getting an AssertionError with this...

Answer

Carl picture Carl · Apr 23, 2015

Another option that worked a bit better for me, and uses protractor 'way' of doing things http://angular.github.io/protractor/#/api?view=ElementArrayFinder.prototype.all

element.all(by.css('.k-loading-image')).then(function(items) {
    expect(items.length).toBe(0);
});

(I wanted to check that a loading indicator had disappeared)

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