How to get text from Text element in Appium for React Native?

Question

Software testing

In the element component:

<Text {...setTestId('textTest')}>мне нужен этот текст</Text>

Seeking:

const firstHtmlView = await client.$('~textTest');
        const text = await firstHtmlView.getText();
        console.log('text', text);

In console:

text textTest

Although I expect (and according to the documentation comes out) the string 'I need this text'
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Wasted almost a day on this issue. As usual, everything turned out to be banal:
the problem was in the setTestId function. As everyone probably knows, there is a problem with finding elements by testId on Android. And therefore it is searched for by accessibilityLabel.
Here is the function for the test environment, it returned such an object for me: I installed both. I do not mind. And it turned out it was necessary to put only one desired value. Like this:

return Platform.OS === 'android'
            ? { accessible: true, accessibilityLabel: id }
            : { testID: id };