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fix: handle unknown return type from getValue() in webdriverio 9.24.0#1435

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@elaichenkov elaichenkov commented Feb 26, 2026

Problem

The dependabot PR #1431 (bumping webdriverio from 9.23.2 to 9.24.0) fails to build with:

src/element/textToBePresentInElementValue.ts(25,16): error TS18046: 'value' is of type 'unknown'

In webdriverio 9.24.0, element.getValue() return type changed from Promise<string> to Promise<unknown> because it delegates to getElementProperty() (for W3C) which can return any JS type.

Solution

Use a typeof guard instead of a type assertion:

return typeof value === 'string' && value.includes(expectedValue)

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fix: handle unknown return type from getValue() in webdriverio 9.24.0
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getValue() now returns Promise<unknown> instead of Promise<string>.
Use typeof guard instead of type assertion to safely handle non-string
return values (e.g. null), returning false when value is not a string.
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