by.exactRepeater() not working on 2.2.0

[williamboman]

by.exactRepeater is not finding any elements on [email protected]. It works perfectly fine on [email protected].

[williamboman]

This is due to #2335, also mentioned here 🙈. I had included = in my repeat descriptors. Editing those fixes this. I'll leave this open for future travelers.

by.exactRepeater('foo in bar = (baz');
// to
by.exactRepeater('foo in bar')

[NickTomlin]

@williamboman could you actually close the issue? That will make it easier for the maintainers to sift through issues; the solution will still be here for anyone searching for the problem.

[williamboman]

@NickTomlin I think it's worth having this issue open for a few more days to avoid any duplicates. Feel free to add any labels or close this issue (I'll otherwise close it soon).

This change should've kept backwards-compatibility IMO (due to the versioning), or at least included a deprecation notice for previously semantically valid, albeit syntactically invalid, descriptors.

^{assuming protractor follows semver}

[hankduan]

@williamboman Sorry about the breaking change. We did not increase the major version since this was considered a fix to a previously bug. But I agree, we should be more careful of these types of pushes in the future.

Let's keep this open for a week, and close it then (it'll still be searchable)

[williamboman]

One GitHub-week later...