Convert-SeTableToPSObject

[itfranck]

I received a request by email.

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I am using Selenium 3.0.1 for Powershell to retrieve a table from my server,
I have have a issue where what I get back is Space delimited but the data may also have a space.

I Have tried:

"Find-SeElement -Driver $Driver -id 'players

$Driver.FindElementById('players')

Both return the data but in space delimited text.
Is there a better way to get this data?
I have uploaded Screen shots if you need them.

Warm Regards,

[itfranck]

Here's a possible implementation I came up with for the requester.
I am keeping it there for later.
(It lack a bit of finesse IMO / I need to do more testing to make sure it is robust / need to determine final implementation before I do a PR for that)

Function Convert-SeTableToPSObject([OpenQA.Selenium.IWebElement]$Element) {
    
    $TableHtml = $Element.GetAttribute('outerHTML') 

    $HTML = New-Object -Com "HTMLFile"
    $Html.IHTMLDocument2_write($TableHtml)
    $TableObj = $HTML.getElementsByTagName('Table')
    $Headers = $TableObj.ie8_item().getElementsByTagName('th') | % { $_.InnerText }
    $Cells = $TableObj.ie8_item().getElementsByTagName('td') | % { $_.InnerText }

    $Output = [System.Collections.Generic.List[PSObject]]::new()
    for ($i = 0; $i -lt $Cells.Count ; $i += $Headers.Count) {
        $CurrentObject = [PSCustomObject]@{}

        $HeaderIndex = 0
        Foreach ($Header in $Headers) {
            Add-Member -InputObject $CurrentObject -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $Header -value $Cells[$i + $HeaderIndex]
            $HeaderIndex += 1
        }
        $Output.Add($CurrentObject)
    }
    return $Output
}

Test sample

#Load the  Convert-SeTableToPSObject first
Start-SeChrome -StartURL 'https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp' -AsDefaultDriver
$Table = Get-SeElement -By Id -Selection 'customers'
$Customers = Convert-SeTableToPSObject -Element $Table

[itfranck]

Well, that's obviously only a Windows thing, so I will check out what's available, pwsh wise.

[itfranck]

Closing this.
There's other module already that wrap HTML agility pack or other libraries out there.
I think this is out of focus for Selenium powershell.

That being said, #118 Get-SeHtml is an easy method to extract the html and pass it to any other specialized module that does deal with html already.