feat: native CSS selector for Android UiAutomator

lib/commands/find.js

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import CssConverter from '../css-converter';
 
 let helpers = {}, extensions = {};
 
@@ -21,6 +22,10 @@ helpers.doFindElementOrEls = async function (params) {
     params.strategy = '-android uiautomator';
     params.selector = MAGIC_SCROLLABLE_BY;
   }
+  if (params.strategy === 'css selector') {
+    params.strategy = '-android uiautomator';
+    params.selector = CssConverter.toUiAutomatorSelector(params.selector);
+  }
   if (params.multiple) {
     return await this.uiautomator2.jwproxy.command(`/elements`, 'POST', params);
   } else {

lib/css-converter.js

@@ -0,0 +1,309 @@
+import { CssSelectorParser } from 'css-selector-parser';
+import _ from 'lodash';
+import { errors } from 'appium-base-driver';
+
+const CssConverter = {};
+
+const parser = new CssSelectorParser();
+parser.registerSelectorPseudos('has');
+parser.registerNestingOperators('>', '+', '~');
+parser.registerAttrEqualityMods('^', '$', '*', '~');
+parser.enableSubstitutes();
+
+const RESOURCE_ID = 'resource-id';
+
+const BOOLEAN_ATTRS = [
+  'checkable', 'checked', 'clickable', 'enabled', 'focusable',
+  'focused', 'long-clickable', 'scrollable', 'selected',
+];
+
+const NUMERIC_ATTRS = [
+  'index', 'instance',
+];
+
+const STR_ATTRS = [
+  'description', RESOURCE_ID, 'text', 'class-name', 'package-name'
+];
+
+const ALL_ATTRS = [
+  ...BOOLEAN_ATTRS,
+  ...NUMERIC_ATTRS,
+  ...STR_ATTRS,
+];
+
+const ATTRIBUTE_ALIASES = [
+  [RESOURCE_ID, ['id']],
+  ['description', [
+    'content-description', 'content-desc',
+    'desc', 'accessibility-id',
+  ]],
+  ['index', ['nth-child']],
+];
+
+/**
+ * Convert hyphen separated word to snake case
+ *
+ * @param {string} str
+ * @returns {string} The hyphen separated word translated to snake case
+ */
+function toSnakeCase (str) {
+  if (!str) {
+    return '';
+  }
+  const tokens = str.split('-').map((str) => str.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str.slice(1).toLowerCase());
+  const out = tokens.join('');
+  return out.charAt(0).toLowerCase() + out.slice(1);
+}
+
+/**
+ * @typedef {Object} CssNameValueObject
+ * @property {?name} name The name of the CSS object
+ * @property {?string} value The value of the CSS object
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Get the boolean from a CSS object. If empty, return true. If not true/false/empty, throw exception
+ *
+ * @param {CssNameValueObject} css A CSS object that has 'name' and 'value'
+ * @returns {string} Either 'true' or 'false'. If value is empty, return 'true'
+ */
+function assertGetBool (css) {
+  const val = css.value?.toLowerCase() || 'true'; // an omitted boolean attribute means 'true' (e.g.: input[checked] means checked is true)
+  if (['true', 'false'].includes(val)) {
+    return val;
+  }
+  throw new Error(`'${css.name}' must be true, false or empty. Found '${css.value}'`);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get the canonical form of a CSS attribute name
+ *
+ * Converts to lowercase and if an attribute name is an alias for something else, return
+ * what it is an alias for
+ *
+ * @param {Object} css CSS object
+ * @returns {string} The canonical attribute name
+ */
+function assertGetAttrName (css) {
+  const attrName = css.name.toLowerCase();
+
+  // Check if it's supported and if it is, return it
+  if (ALL_ATTRS.includes(attrName)) {
+    return attrName.toLowerCase();
+  }
+
+  // If attrName is an alias for something else, return that
+  for (const [officialAttr, aliasAttrs] of ATTRIBUTE_ALIASES) {
+    if (aliasAttrs.includes(attrName)) {
+      return officialAttr;
+    }
+  }
+  throw new Error(`'${attrName}' is not a valid attribute. ` +
+    `Supported attributes are '${ALL_ATTRS.join(', ')}'`);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get a regex that matches a whole word. For the ~= CSS attribute selector.
+ *
+ * @param {string} word
+ * @returns {string} A regex "word" matcher
+ */
+function getWordMatcherRegex (word) {
+  return `\\b(\\w*${_.escapeRegExp(word)}\\w*)\\b`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Add android:id/ to beginning of string if it's not there already
+ *
+ * @param {string} str
+ * @returns {string} String with `android:id/` prepended (if it wasn't already)
+ */
+function prependAndroidId (str) {
+  return str.startsWith('android:id/') ? str : `android:id/${str}`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * @typedef {Object} CssAttr
+ * @property {?string} valueType Type of attribute (must be string or empty)
+ * @property {?string} value Value of the attribute
+ * @property {?string} operator The operator between value and value type (=, *=, , ^=, $=)
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Convert a CSS attribute into a UiSelector method call
+ *
+ * @param {CssAttr} cssAttr CSS attribute object
+ * @returns {string} CSS attribute parsed as UiSelector
+ */
+function parseAttr (cssAttr) {
+  if (cssAttr.valueType && cssAttr.valueType !== 'string') {
+    throw new Error(`'${cssAttr.name}=${cssAttr.value}' is an invalid attribute. ` +
+      `Only 'string' and empty attribute types are supported. Found '${cssAttr.valueType}'`);
+  }
+  const attrName = assertGetAttrName(cssAttr);
+  const methodName = toSnakeCase(attrName);
+  if (BOOLEAN_ATTRS.includes(attrName)) {
+    return `.${methodName}(${assertGetBool(cssAttr)})`;
+  }
+
+  if (!STR_ATTRS.includes(attrName)) {
+    return;
+  }
+  let value = cssAttr.value || '';
+  if (attrName === RESOURCE_ID) {
+    value = prependAndroidId(value);
+  }
+  if (value === '') {
+    return `.${methodName}Matches("")`;
+  }
+
+  switch (cssAttr.operator) {
+    case '=':
+      return `.${methodName}("${value}")`;
+    case '*=':
+      if (['description', 'text'].includes(attrName)) {
+        return `.${methodName}Contains("${value}")`;
+      }
+      return `.${methodName}Matches("${_.escapeRegExp(value)}")`;
+    case '^=':
+      if (['description', 'text'].includes(attrName)) {
+        return `.${methodName}StartsWith("${value}")`;
+      }
+      return `.${methodName}Matches("^${_.escapeRegExp(value)}")`;
+    case '$=':
+      return `.${methodName}Matches("${_.escapeRegExp(value)}$")`;
+    case '~=':
+      return `.${methodName}Matches("${getWordMatcherRegex(value)}")`;
+    default:
+      // Unreachable, but adding error in case a new CSS attribute is added.
+      throw new Error(`Unsupported CSS attribute operator '${cssAttr.operator}'. ` +
+        ` '=', '*=', '^=', '$=' and '~=' are supported.`);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * @typedef {Object} CssPseudo
+ * @property {?string} valueType The type of CSS pseudo selector (https://www.npmjs.com/package/css-selector-parser for reference)
+ * @property {?string} name The name of the pseudo selector
+ * @property {?string} value The value of the pseudo selector
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Convert a CSS pseudo class to a UiSelector
+ *
+ * @param {CssPseudo} cssPseudo CSS Pseudo class
+ * @returns {string} Pseudo selector parsed as UiSelector
+ */
+function parsePseudo (cssPseudo) {
+  if (cssPseudo.valueType && cssPseudo.valueType !== 'string') {
+    throw new Error(`'${cssPseudo.name}=${cssPseudo.value}'. ` +
+      `Unsupported css pseudo class value type: '${cssPseudo.valueType}'. Only 'string' type or empty is supported.`);
+  }
+
+  const pseudoName = assertGetAttrName(cssPseudo);
+
+  if (BOOLEAN_ATTRS.includes(pseudoName)) {
+    return `.${toSnakeCase(pseudoName)}(${assertGetBool(cssPseudo)})`;
+  }
+
+  if (NUMERIC_ATTRS.includes(pseudoName)) {
+    return `.${pseudoName}(${cssPseudo.value})`;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * @typedef {Object} CssRule
+ * @property {?string} nestingOperator The nesting operator (aka: combinator https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Selectors)
+ * @property {?string} tagName The tag name (aka: type selector https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Type_selectors)
+ * @property {?string[]} classNames An array of CSS class names
+ * @property {?CssAttr[]} attrs An array of CSS attributes
+ * @property {?CssPseudo[]} attrs An array of CSS pseudos
+ * @property {?string} id CSS identifier
+ * @property {?CssRule} rule A descendant of this CSS rule
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Convert a CSS rule to a UiSelector
+ * @param {CssRule} cssRule CSS rule definition
+ */
+function parseCssRule (cssRule) {
+  const { nestingOperator } = cssRule;
+  if (nestingOperator && nestingOperator !== ' ') {
+    throw new Error(`'${nestingOperator}' is not a supported combinator. ` +
+      `Only child combinator (>) and descendant combinator are supported.`);
+  }
+
+  let uiAutomatorSelector = 'new UiSelector()';
+  if (cssRule.tagName && cssRule.tagName !== '*') {
+    let androidClass = [cssRule.tagName];
+    for (const cssClassNames of (cssRule.classNames || [])) {
+      androidClass.push(cssClassNames);
+    }
+    uiAutomatorSelector += `.className("${androidClass.join('.')}")`;
+  } else if (cssRule.classNames) {
+    uiAutomatorSelector += `.classNameMatches("\\.${cssRule.classNames.join('\\.')}")`;
+  }
+  if (cssRule.id) {
+    uiAutomatorSelector += `.resourceId("${prependAndroidId(cssRule.id)}")`;
+  }
+  if (cssRule.attrs) {
+    for (const attr of cssRule.attrs) {
+      uiAutomatorSelector += parseAttr(attr);
+    }
+  }
+  if (cssRule.pseudos) {
+    for (const pseudo of cssRule.pseudos) {
+      uiAutomatorSelector += parsePseudo(pseudo);
+    }
+  }
+  if (cssRule.rule) {
+    uiAutomatorSelector += `.childSelector(${parseCssRule(cssRule.rule)})`;
+  }
+  return uiAutomatorSelector;
+}
+
+/**
+ * @typedef {Object} CssObject
+ * @property {?string} type Type of CSS object. 'rule', 'ruleset' or 'selectors'
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Convert CSS object to UiAutomator2 selector
+ * @param {CssObject} css CSS object
+ * @returns {string} The CSS object parsed as a UiSelector
+ */
+function parseCssObject (css) {
+  switch (css.type) {
+    case 'rule':
+      return parseCssRule(css);
+    case 'ruleSet':
+      return parseCssObject(css.rule);
+    case 'selectors':
+      return css.selectors.map((selector) => parseCssObject(selector)).join('; ');
+
+    default:
+      // This is never reachable, but if it ever is do this.
+      throw new Error(`UiAutomator does not support '${css.type}' css. Only supports 'rule', 'ruleSet', 'selectors' `);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Convert a CSS selector to a UiAutomator2 selector
+ * @param {string} cssSelector CSS Selector
+ * @returns {string} The CSS selector converted to a UiSelector
+ */
+CssConverter.toUiAutomatorSelector = function toUiAutomatorSelector (cssSelector) {
+  let cssObj;
+  try {
+    cssObj = parser.parse(cssSelector);
+  } catch (e) {
+    throw new errors.InvalidSelectorError(`Invalid CSS selector '${cssSelector}'. Reason: '${e}'`);
+  }
+  try {
+    return parseCssObject(cssObj);
+  } catch (e) {
+    throw new errors.InvalidSelectorError(`Unsupported CSS selector '${cssSelector}'. Reason: '${e}'`);
+  }
+};
+
+export default CssConverter;

lib/driver.js

@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ class AndroidUiautomator2Driver extends BaseDriver {
       'id',
       'class name',
       'accessibility id',
+      'css selector',
       '-android uiautomator'
     ];
     this.desiredCapConstraints = desiredCapConstraints;

package.json

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
     "asyncbox": "^2.3.1",
     "axios": "^0.19.2",
     "bluebird": "^3.5.1",
+    "css-selector-parser": "^1.4.1",
     "lodash": "^4.17.4",
     "portscanner": "2.2.0",
     "source-map-support": "^0.5.5",