__findViewWithAttributeInTreeThatMatches should use search instead of match

[jrafaaael]

I'm trying something like client.findViewWithAttributeThatMatches(attr="text", regex=re.compile(fr"\babc\b")). however, if "abc" isn't at beggining of the text, the view doesn't match

Changing regex.match to regex.search fix the issue

AndroidViewClient/src/com/dtmilano/android/viewclient.py

Line 3958 in 9be41ba

if root and attr in root.map and regex.match(root.map[attr]):

It doesn't seem to break anything

[dtmilano]

Nice finding. Feel free to create a pull request.

[dtmilano]

Take this into account, you can always do it with match too:

>>> import re
>>> r = re.compile(fr"\babc\b")
>>> r.match("xxx abc yyy")
>>> r = re.compile(fr"^.*\babc\b.*$")
>>> r.match("xxx abc yyy")
<re.Match object; span=(0, 11), match='xxx abc yyy'>

[jrafaaael]

@dtmilano
hey! sorry for late response, I was a bit bussy last week

^.*\babc\b.*$

this seems to work like a charm! however, word boundary /b only should too
let me PR and discuss further there!