Locating parent elements with parentElementArrayFinder

There is a parentElementArrayFinder attribute available on an ElementFinder object which, from I understand, may return a parent element of the current:

var myElement = $(".myclass"); var parentElement = myElement.parentElementArrayFinder; 

It is, though, not documented as a part of Protractor's public API. Is parentElementArrayFinder a reliable and stable method to locate a parent element and would always return the same element as myElement.element(by.xpath(".."))?

2 Answers

Answers 1

Check this link as it is a similar kind of problem. https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/768fd393d1084a8da0ec6eeaa57508bf17519a3f/lib/element.ts#LC817

Answers 2

I found the code for the ElementFinder here which has a prop for parentElementArrayFinder here.

From what I have found in the code. It throws an error if parentElementArrayFinder does not exist.

super(); if (!elementArrayFinder) {   throw new Error('BUG: elementArrayFinder cannot be empty'); } this.parentElementArrayFinder = elementArrayFinder; 

From this, we can safely assume it will always be there so I think it is safe to use.

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