wait plugin is not retrying to find element if the locator is not there on screen

[sankethsunkad]

configurations : element-wait@3.0.2 [installed (npm)]

element wait plugin doesnt retry to find element, it tries once and if the element is not present it doesnt retry to find the element

server config 👇
"server": {
"keep-alive-timeout": 800,
"use-plugins": ["device-farm","element-wait"],
"port": 4444,
"plugin": {
"element-wait": {
"timeout": 20000,
"intervalBetweenAttempts": 500
},
"device-farm": {
"platform": "both"
},
"appium-dashboard": {
"dashboard:enableLiveVideo": false,
"dashboard:enableVideoRecording": false
}
},

error log 👇
Plugin element-wait is now handling cmd 'findElement'

• Waiting to find element with id strategy for incomeCheckbox selector
  [AxiosError: Request failed with status code 404] {
  code: 'ERR_BAD_REQUEST',
  config: {
  transitional: {
  silentJSONParsing: true,
  forcedJSONParsing: true,
  clarifyTimeoutError: false
  },
  adapter: [Function: httpAdapter],
  transformRequest: [ [Function: transformRequest] ],
  transformResponse: [ [Function: transformResponse] ],
  timeout: 0,
  xsrfCookieName: 'XSRF-TOKEN',
  xsrfHeaderName: 'X-XSRF-TOKEN',
  maxContentLength: -1,
  maxBodyLength: -1,
  env: { FormData: [Function] },
  validateStatus: [Function: validateStatus],
  headers: {
  Accept: 'application/json, text/plain, /',
  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  'User-Agent': 'axios/0.27.2',
  'Content-Length': 75
  },
  method: 'post',
  url: 'http://127.0.0.1:57415/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element',
  data: '{"strategy":"id","selector":"incomeCheckbox","context":"","multiple":false}'
  },
  request: <ref *1> ClientRequest {
  _events: [Object: null prototype] {
  abort: [Function (anonymous)],
  aborted: [Function (anonymous)],
  connect: [Function (anonymous)],
  error: [Function (anonymous)],
  socket: [Function (anonymous)],
  timeout: [Function (anonymous)],
  finish: [Function: requestOnFinish]
  },
  _eventsCount: 7,
  _maxListeners: undefined,
  outputData: [],
  outputSize: 0,
  writable: true,
  destroyed: true,
  _last: false,
  chunkedEncoding: false,
  shouldKeepAlive: true,
  maxRequestsOnConnectionReached: false,
  _defaultKeepAlive: true,
  useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
  sendDate: false,
  _removedConnection: false,
  _removedContLen: false,
  _removedTE: false,
  strictContentLength: false,
  _contentLength: 75,
  _hasBody: true,
  _trailer: '',
  finished: true,
  _headerSent: true,
  _closed: true,
  socket: Socket {
  connecting: false,
  _hadError: false,
  _parent: null,
  _host: null,
  _closeAfterHandlingError: false,
  _events: [Object],
  _readableState: [ReadableState],
  _writableState: [WritableState],
  allowHalfOpen: false,
  _maxListeners: undefined,
  _eventsCount: 6,
  _sockname: null,
  _pendingData: null,
  _pendingEncoding: '',
  server: null,
  _server: null,
  timeout: 5000,
  parser: null,
  _httpMessage: null,
  [Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: -1,
  [Symbol(kHandle)]: [TCP],
  [Symbol(lastWriteQueueSize)]: 0,
  [Symbol(timeout)]: Timeout {
  _idleTimeout: 5000,
  _idlePrev: [TimersList],
  _idleNext: [TimersList],
  _idleStart: 104480,
  _onTimeout: [Function: bound ],
  _timerArgs: undefined,
  _repeat: null,
  _destroyed: false,
  [Symbol(refed)]: false,
  [Symbol(kHasPrimitive)]: false,
  [Symbol(asyncId)]: 38566,
  [Symbol(triggerId)]: 38564
  },
  [Symbol(kBuffer)]: null,
  [Symbol(kBufferCb)]: null,
  [Symbol(kBufferGen)]: null,
  [Symbol(shapeMode)]: true,
  [Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
  [Symbol(kSetNoDelay)]: true,
  [Symbol(kSetKeepAlive)]: true,
  [Symbol(kSetKeepAliveInitialDelay)]: 1,
  [Symbol(kBytesRead)]: 0,
  [Symbol(kBytesWritten)]: 0
  },
  _header: 'POST /session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element HTTP/1.1\r\n' +
  'Accept: application/json, text/plain, /\r\n' +
  'Content-Type: application/json\r\n' +
  'User-Agent: axios/0.27.2\r\n' +
  'Content-Length: 75\r\n' +
  'Host: 127.0.0.1:57415\r\n' +
  'Connection: keep-alive\r\n' +
  '\r\n',
  _keepAliveTimeout: 0,
  _onPendingData: [Function: nop],
  agent: Agent {
  _events: [Object: null prototype],
  _eventsCount: 2,
  _maxListeners: undefined,
  defaultPort: 80,
  protocol: 'http:',
  options: [Object: null prototype],
  requests: [Object: null prototype] {},
  sockets: [Object: null prototype] {},
  freeSockets: [Object: null prototype],
  keepAliveMsecs: 1000,
  keepAlive: true,
  maxSockets: Infinity,
  maxFreeSockets: 256,
  scheduling: 'lifo',
  maxTotalSockets: Infinity,
  totalSocketCount: 1,
  [Symbol(shapeMode)]: false,
  [Symbol(kCapture)]: false
  },
  socketPath: undefined,
  method: 'POST',
  maxHeaderSize: undefined,
  insecureHTTPParser: undefined,
  joinDuplicateHeaders: undefined,
  path: '/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element',
  _ended: true,
  res: IncomingMessage {
  _events: [Object],
  _readableState: [ReadableState],
  _maxListeners: undefined,
  socket: null,
  httpVersionMajor: 1,
  httpVersionMinor: 1,
  httpVersion: '1.1',
  complete: true,
  rawHeaders: [Array],
  rawTrailers: [],
  joinDuplicateHeaders: undefined,
  aborted: false,
  upgrade: false,
  url: '',
  method: null,
  statusCode: 404,
  statusMessage: 'Not Found',
  client: [Socket],
  _consuming: false,
  _dumped: false,
  req: [Circular *1],
  _eventsCount: 4,
  responseUrl: 'http://127.0.0.1:57415/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element',
  redirects: [],
  [Symbol(shapeMode)]: true,
  [Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
  [Symbol(kHeaders)]: [Object],
  [Symbol(kHeadersCount)]: 12,
  [Symbol(kTrailers)]: null,
  [Symbol(kTrailersCount)]: 0
  },
  aborted: false,
  timeoutCb: null,
  upgradeOrConnect: false,
  parser: null,
  maxHeadersCount: null,
  reusedSocket: true,
  host: '127.0.0.1',
  protocol: 'http:',
  _redirectable: Writable {
  _events: [Object],
  _writableState: [WritableState],
  _maxListeners: undefined,
  _options: [Object],
  _ended: true,
  _ending: true,
  _redirectCount: 0,
  _redirects: [],
  _requestBodyLength: 75,
  _requestBodyBuffers: [],
  _eventsCount: 3,
  _onNativeResponse: [Function (anonymous)],
  _currentRequest: [Circular *1],
  _currentUrl: 'http://127.0.0.1:57415/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element',
  [Symbol(shapeMode)]: true,
  [Symbol(kCapture)]: false
  },
  [Symbol(shapeMode)]: false,
  [Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
  [Symbol(kBytesWritten)]: 0,
  [Symbol(kNeedDrain)]: false,
  [Symbol(corked)]: 0,
  [Symbol(kOutHeaders)]: [Object: null prototype] {
  accept: [Array],
  'content-type': [Array],
  'user-agent': [Array],
  'content-length': [Array],
  host: [Array]
  },
  [Symbol(errored)]: null,
  [Symbol(kHighWaterMark)]: 16384,
  [Symbol(kRejectNonStandardBodyWrites)]: false,
  [Symbol(kUniqueHeaders)]: null
  },
  response: {
  status: 404,
  statusText: 'Not Found',
  headers: {
  connection: 'keep-alive',
  pragma: 'no-cache',
  'cache-control': 'no-store',
  'content-encoding': 'identity',
  'content-type': 'application/json',
  'content-length': '3828'
  },
  config: {
  transitional: [Object],
  adapter: [Function: httpAdapter],
  transformRequest: [Array],
  transformResponse: [Array],
  timeout: 0,
  xsrfCookieName: 'XSRF-TOKEN',
  xsrfHeaderName: 'X-XSRF-TOKEN',
  maxContentLength: -1,
  maxBodyLength: -1,
  env: [Object],
  validateStatus: [Function: validateStatus],
  headers: [Object],
  method: 'post',
  url: 'http://127.0.0.1:57415/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element',
  data: '{"strategy":"id","selector":"incomeCheckbox","context":"","multiple":false}'
  },
  request: <ref *1> ClientRequest {
  _events: [Object: null prototype],
  _eventsCount: 7,
  _maxListeners: undefined,
  outputData: [],
  outputSize: 0,
  writable: true,
  destroyed: true,
  _last: false,
  chunkedEncoding: false,
  shouldKeepAlive: true,
  maxRequestsOnConnectionReached: false,
  _defaultKeepAlive: true,
  useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
  sendDate: false,
  _removedConnection: false,
  _removedContLen: false,
  _removedTE: false,
  strictContentLength: false,
  _contentLength: 75,
  _hasBody: true,
  _trailer: '',
  finished: true,
  _headerSent: true,
  _closed: true,
  socket: [Socket],
  _header: 'POST /session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element HTTP/1.1\r\n' +
  'Accept: application/json, text/plain, /\r\n' +
  'Content-Type: application/json\r\n' +
  'User-Agent: axios/0.27.2\r\n' +
  'Content-Length: 75\r\n' +
  'Host: 127.0.0.1:57415\r\n' +
  'Connection: keep-alive\r\n' +
  '\r\n',
  _keepAliveTimeout: 0,
  _onPendingData: [Function: nop],
  agent: [Agent],
  socketPath: undefined,
  method: 'POST',
  maxHeaderSize: undefined,
  insecureHTTPParser: undefined,
  joinDuplicateHeaders: undefined,
  path: '/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element',
  _ended: true,
  res: [IncomingMessage],
  aborted: false,
  timeoutCb: null,
  upgradeOrConnect: false,
  parser: null,
  maxHeadersCount: null,
  reusedSocket: true,
  host: '127.0.0.1',
  protocol: 'http:',
  _redirectable: [Writable],
  [Symbol(shapeMode)]: false,
  [Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
  [Symbol(kBytesWritten)]: 0,
  [Symbol(kNeedDrain)]: false,
  [Symbol(corked)]: 0,
  [Symbol(kOutHeaders)]: [Object: null prototype],
  [Symbol(errored)]: null,
  [Symbol(kHighWaterMark)]: 16384,
  [Symbol(kRejectNonStandardBodyWrites)]: false,
  [Symbol(kUniqueHeaders)]: null
  },
  data: {
  sessionId: '0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281',
  value: [Object]
  }
  }
  }
  �[38;5;48m[AppiumDriver@17b9]�[0m Plugin device-farm is now handling cmd 'findElement'
  �[38;5;48m[AppiumDriver@17b9]�[0m Executing default handling behavior for command 'findElement'
  �[38;5;64m[AndroidUiautomator2Driver@87b6 (88292602)]�[0m Valid locator strategies for this request: xpath, id, class name, accessibility id, css selector, -android uiautomator
  �[38;5;64m[AndroidUiautomator2Driver@87b6 (88292602)]�[0m Waiting up to 10000 ms for condition
  �[38;5;0m[device-farm-/Users/sankethcs/.appium]�[0m Updating lastCmdExecutedAt for device emulator-5554 in session 88292602-1636-43cc-96bf-54f3e763f8c3
  �[38;5;64m[AndroidUiautomator2Driver@87b6 (88292602)]�[0m Matched '/element' to command name 'findElement'
  �[38;5;64m[AndroidUiautomator2Driver@87b6 (88292602)]�[0m Proxying [POST /element] to [POST http://127.0.0.1:57415/session/0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281/element] with body: {"strategy":"id","selector":"incomeCheckbox","context":"","multiple":false}
  �[38;5;64m[AndroidUiautomator2Driver@87b6 (88292602)]�[0m Got response with status 404: {"sessionId":"0f19ae31-e3d8-4f24-a1c9-76a1ffaa0281","value":{"error":"no such element","message":"An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters","stacktrace":"io.appium.uiautomator2.common.exceptions.ElementNotFoundException: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters\n\tat io.appium.uiautomator2.handler.FindElement.safeHandle(FindElement.java:63)\n\tat io.appium.uiautomator2.handler.request.SafeRequestHandler.handle(SafeRequestHandler.java:59)\n\tat io.appium.uiautomator2.server.AppiumServlet.handleRequest(AppiumServlet.java:277)\n\tat io.appium.uiautomator2.server.AppiumServlet.handleHttpRequest(AppiumServlet.java:271)\n\tat io.appium.uiautomator2.http.ServerHandler.channelRead(ServerHandler.java:68)\n\tat io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:366)\n\tat io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:352)\n\tat io.netty.chann...

[sankethsunkad]

device_farm.log

[rakeshghandham07]

Applium-Element-Wait.json
Hi @saikrishna321 I see the same error , let me know if you need further details here