Accessing all attributes of found widgets possible?

[pandoras-toolbox]

Coming from a Selenium background I am a bit confused of the automation API of Patrol and of the native Flutter tools.

What I am missing in the API is to receive a widget object from a finder and then to access all the found widgets attributes.

I can access the text attribute for example, but not the key attribute. And I think there are many more attributes of widgets, like location, size etc. I would like to be able to access these attributes. Like if the widget is an AppBar, I would like to access its specific attributes like backgroundColor (maybe not the best example).

In Patrol and Flutter native tooling the finder returns a finder and not the found widget. I am not sure how good that is, because I would like to access all the attributes of the found widget. Can I do that like in Selenium?

[fylyppo]

Check out these two solutions:

final appBarWidget = $(Key('appBar')).evaluate().single.widget as AppBar;
final appBarWidgetBackgroundColor = appBarWidget.backgroundColor;
print(appBarWidgetBackgroundColor);

final appBarWidgetWithBlackBackground =
        $(Key('appBar')).which<AppBar>((appBar) {
    return appBar.backgroundColor == Colors.black;
});
await $.tap(appBarWidgetWithBlackBackgroundColor);

[pandoras-toolbox]

Thank you! I will try that. Was busy the other days setting up a MacBook to try Patrol with the app on an iPhone.