sendkeys command causing exception in selenium webdriver on IOS safari - ios

Question

I have been trying to run some sample Remote WebDriver tests on the Safari browser on the IOS Simulator 7.0 (IPhone) but my tests give an exception every time I try to type in values on a text box. Just trying to use the example from iosdriver
DesiredCapabilities safari = IOSCapabilities.iphone("Safari");
RemoteWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://<someip>:4444/wd/hub"), safari);
driver.get("http://hp.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/home");
WebElement search = driver.findElement(By.id("srchDv"));
search.sendKeys("ipod");
search.submit();
gives me the exception
a "org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: cannot find element for criteria :{"AND":[{"l10n":"none","expected":"UIAElement","matching":"exact","method":"type"},{"l10n":"none","expected":"Address","matching":"exact","method":"name"}" .
Anyone else run into this? It is identifying the element but typing in values fail..It works fine when I try it on firefox on my desktop.

Answer 1

I am no expert, but am familiar with selenium webdriver..
Are you sure that the id for "search " --- ('srchDv') actually exists on the page you are trying to automate?
if so
i would then look into the UIA -Element Hierarchy / Accessibility link to UIA Element Class reference
Hope this is helpful

Answer 2

You have an incorrect selector. The page you are automating does not have an id srchDv. If you are getting the search box, then you need to use:
driver.findElement(By.id("gh-ac")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.id("gh-ac")).sendKeys("ipod");
Also, instead of using submit, personally i would follow the way that your user would commit the action, and that's by clicking the search button.
driver.findElement(By.id("gh-btn")).click();