Bug Description
1. Summary
I am trying to do automated test on an application, using Appium. I can locate the search element using find_element method. However send_keys method is not doing anything.
Bug Severity
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- Impacts operation of app
- Blocks current development
- Improvement suggestion
- Issue with documentation (If selected, please share the doc link and describe the issue)
- Other
2. Steps to Reproduce
Python script to connect to driver and find element of the search box and .send_keys("blabla")
3. Observed Behavior
Explain what actually happened, noting any discrepancies or malfunctions.
Method did not return or thrown any errors. Script just ended successfully.
4. Expected Behavior
Describe what you expected the SDK to do under normal operation.
Expected to write the keys on the screen search box
4.a Possible Root Cause & Temporary Workaround
Thought that the element was wrong, but confirmed that it was correct with Appium inspector.
5. Logs or crash report
No crashes, no exceptions.
APPIUM LOG:
Running /element with strategy=UiSelector, selector={“args”:{ “role”: “edit” }}
Sending jsonRPC POST http://127.0.0.1:15970/jsonrpc id=0, method=findObjects, params object={“args”:{“role”:“edit”},“selectorStrategy”:“UiSelector”}
received jsonrpc response in 441ms (http 200 OK): {“id”:“0”,“jsonrpc”:“2.0”,“result”:[158913791613]}
[KeplerDriver@6d1b] Responding to client with driver.findElement() result: {“ELEMENT”:“158913791613”,“element-6066-11e4-a52e-4f735466cecf”:“158913791613”}
[HTTP] ← POST /session/0a8779ab-3685-41d1-a7da-cb138c4b6344/element 200 442 ms - 89
[HTTP] → POST /session/0a8779ab-3685-41d1-a7da-cb138c4b6344/element/158913791613/value {“text”:“the quick brown fox”,“value”:[“t”,“h”,“e”," “,“q”,“u”,“i”,“c”,“k”,” “,“b”,“r”,“o”,“w”,“n”,” “,“f”,“o”,“x”]}
[KeplerDriver@6d1b] Calling AppiumDriver.setValue() with args: [[“t”,“h”,“e”,” “,“q”,“u”,“i”,“c”,“k”,” “,“b”,“r”,“o”,“w”,“n”,” ",“f”,“o”,“x”],“158913791613”,“0a8779ab-3685-41d1-a7da-cb138c4b6344”]
Running /executeScript with script=setValue, args=[
[
‘t’, ‘h’,
‘e’, ’ ',
‘q’, ‘u’,
‘i’, ‘c’,
‘k’, ’ ',
‘b’, ‘r’,
‘o’, ‘w’,
‘n’, ’ ',
‘f’, ‘o’,
‘x’, [length]: 19
],
‘158913791613’,
‘0a8779ab-3685-41d1-a7da-cb138c4b6344’,
[length]: 3
]
Running /element/158913791613/value with keys=[
‘t’, ‘h’, ‘e’, ’ ', ‘q’,
‘u’, ‘i’, ‘c’, ‘k’, ’ ',
‘b’, ‘r’, ‘o’, ‘w’, ‘n’,
’ ', ‘f’, ‘o’, ‘x’
]
Sending jsonRPC POST http://127.0.0.1:15970/jsonrpc id=0, method=setText, params object={“id”:158913791613,“text”:“the quick brown fox”}
received jsonrpc response in 194ms (http 200 OK): {“id”:“0”,“jsonrpc”:“2.0”,“result”:false}
6. Environment
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SDK Version:
v0.22 -
App State:
Foreground -
OS Information:
NAME="OS" OE_VERSION="4.0.0" OS_MAJOR_VERSION="1" OS_MINOR_VERSION="1" RELEASE_ID="14" OS_VERSION="1.1" BRANCH_CODE="TV Ship day60" BUILD_DESC="OS 1.1 (TV Ship day60/91)" BUILD_FINGERPRINT="4.0.216859.0(3072cab629675a74)/91N:user/release-keys" BUILD_VARIANT="user" BUILD_TAGS="release-keys" BUILD_DATE="Wed Jan 28 22:43:49 UTC 2026" BUILD_TIMESTAMP="1769640229" VERSION_NUMBER="1401010009120"
7. Example Code Snippet / Screenshots / Screengrabs
Include any relevant code or component setup in React Native that can help reproduce the bug.
device_serial = "192.168.1.21:5555"
desired_caps = { "platformName": "Kepler", "appium:automationName": "automation-toolkit/JSON-RPC", "kepler:device": f"vda://{device_serial}"}
def appium_session(): appium_options = AppiumOptions() appium_options.load_capabilities(desired_caps) driver = webdriver.Remote('http://127.0.0.1:44557', options=appium_options) return driver
d = appium_session()
#Display already on the correct screen
editableEle = d.find_element("UiSelector", '{"args":{ "role": "edit" }}')
editableEle.send_keys("the quick brown fox")
