800320 - [B2G] gaia - auto switch to the active frame?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Remote Protocol :: Marionette, defect)

Description

[Zac C (:zac)]

Is it possible for new marionette or existing marionette sessions to auto-switch to the currently active frame?

As from my perspective it's very difficult to understand which frame I am to switch to especially if a frame has been launched via a click.

Similarly, I can't ever imagine a time I'd actually *want* to be on the wrong frame. I only want to be on the frame the user can see - it's the only one that's relevant.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Is this how Selenium normally works?  If it isn't, we'd potentially be breaking Selenium compatibility by implementing this.

Comment 2

[Zac C (:zac)]

It's not how Selenium works but switching frames on a webpage is a rare event.

Comment 3

[David Burns :automatedtester]

As Zac said its not part of Selenium. 

We do have switch to active element[1] which *may* get what we want. This hasnt been implemented in Marionette yet so I can do that in a separate bug and see if that solves the issue. 

Another approach would be to get a list of frames and see what is not in that list and use that. Not elegant but might work.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/JsonWireProtocol#/session/:sessionId/element/active

Comment 4

[Zac C (:zac)]

I should have mentioned I'm open to a framework-level solution too :) 

Anything that makes it a bit more implied or intuitive.

Comment 6

[Zac C (:zac)]

We are coping OK without this. I wouldn't push for it. I'd close the bug but maybe some other teams that use Marionette for other purposes find it useful too.

Comment 7

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

I'm going to close this then.