Assert hangs if element does not exist

[ryanzec]

Certain assertions will just hang indefinitely if the selector does not return a element. Certain asserts work fine with a selector returning no elements like exists() and doesntExist however 2 that hang that I have tested are attr() and text().

[asciidisco]

Yep. This is a big bad bug, it can be solved by checking the return value of the webdriver response, in order to make it work for firefox too, smth. in the firefox driver must be changed. Seems doable but needs a bit of work.

[ryanzec]

I should mention this seems to happen with other things like if I do:

toWindow('window-does-not-exist')

and there is no window with the name window-does-not-exist then the tests just hangs and needs to be manually killed.

[karthickg20]

i think this issue still exists..
the action ".query" will hang, if the "selected element" doesn't exists on the DOM.

".query('selected element')"

[izocan]

same issue when using the "type" and "click" actions.

[yuriyzubarev]

Voting for a fix prioritization.