Get Table Cell low performance

[mkorpela]

_TableElementKeywords._get_table_cell performance is very poor when finding out multiple cell values from the same table. A very basic result caching mechanism improved the situation on my clients test by 30%.

I'm willing to work on a patch to improve the situation on next week.

[Gurud]

Yes , I m also facing same problem so .. have you go any solution on this? I need it urgently solution on this for my project .. wanted to check sorted records from table.

Please Send me if you have solution on this - gaurav.sp@gmail.com

[ombre42]

Get Table Cell is particularly bad with Internet Explorer.
Two ways to workaround the performance issue is to

1. Reduce calls by working closely with WebDriver
2. Use Execute JavaScript
   JavaScript is time-consuming and hard to write (especially in a cross-browser way), but it is definitely the fastest. I don't have an example because I have never gone that route.
   Here's an example showing how to use a Selenium2Library locator and get a collection of WebElements you can work with. Particularly, this logs the text of all the first cells in the keyword table. This is much faster than Get Table Cell, but is definitely ugly.

*** Settings ***
Library           Selenium2Library

*** Variables ***
${URL}            http://rtomac.github.com/robotframework-selenium2library/doc/Selenium2Library.html

*** Test Cases ***
Cell Test
    Open Browser    ${URL}    ie
    ${se2lib}=    Get Library Instance    Selenium2Library
    @{cells}=    BuiltIn.Call Method    ${se2lib._element_finder}    find    ${se2lib._current_browser()}    xpath=html/body/table[@class='keywords'][2]/tbody/tr/td[1]
    : FOR    ${webelement}    IN    @{cells}
    \    Log    ${webelement.text}

[Gurud]

Thanks Kevin!

This is not browser specific issue. But I tried according to mentioned code
for Xpath & made code with Get Text Keyword, it improves a lot & get solved
issue.

Thanks a lot,
Gaurav

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Kevin Ormbrek notifications@github.amrom.workers.devwrote:

Get Table Cell is particularly bad with Internet Explorer.
Two ways to workaround the performance issue is to

1. Reduce calls by working closely with WebDriver
2. Use Execute JavaScript
   JavaScript is time-consuming and hard to write (especially in a
   cross-browser way), but it is definitely the fastest. I don't have an
   example because I have never gone that route.
   Here's an example showing how to use a Selenium2Library locator and get a
   collection of WebElements you can work with. Particularly, this logs the
   text of all the first cells in the keyword table. This is much faster than
   Get Table Cell, but is definitely ugly.

*** Settings ***
Library Selenium2Library

*** Variables ***
${URL} http://rtomac.github.com/robotframework-selenium2library/doc/Selenium2Library.html

*** Test Cases ***
Cell Test
Open Browser ${URL} ie
${se2lib}= Get Library Instance Selenium2Library
@{cells}= BuiltIn.Call Method ${se2lib._element_finder} find ${se2lib._current_browser()} xpath=html/body/table[@Class='keywords'][2]/tbody/tr/td[1]
: FOR ${webelement} IN @{cells}
\ Log ${webelement.text}

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