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JSHandle

JSHandle represents an in-page JavaScript object. JSHandles can be created with the Page#evaluate_handle method.

window_handle = page.evaluate_handle("window")
# ...

JSHandle prevents the referenced JavaScript object being garbage collected unless the handle is exposed with JSHandle#dispose. JSHandles are auto-disposed when their origin frame gets navigated or the parent context gets destroyed.

JSHandle instances can be used as an argument in Page#eval_on_selector, Page#evaluate and Page#evaluate_handle methods.

as_element​

def as_element

Returns either null or the object handle itself, if the object handle is an instance of ElementHandle.

dispose​

def dispose

The jsHandle.dispose method stops referencing the element handle.

evaluate​

def evaluate(expression, arg: nil)

Returns the return value of expression.

This method passes this handle as the first argument to expression.

If expression returns a Promise, then handle.evaluate would wait for the promise to resolve and return its value.

Examples:

tweet_handle = page.query_selector(".tweet .retweets")
tweet_handle.evaluate("node => node.innerText") # => "10 retweets"

evaluate_handle​

def evaluate_handle(expression, arg: nil)

Returns the return value of expression as a JSHandle.

This method passes this handle as the first argument to expression.

The only difference between JSHandle#evaluate and JSHandle#evaluate_handle is that JSHandle#evaluate_handle returns JSHandle.

If the function passed to the JSHandle#evaluate_handle returns a Promise, then JSHandle#evaluate_handle would wait for the promise to resolve and return its value.

See Page#evaluate_handle for more details.

get_properties​

def get_properties

alias: properties

The method returns a map with own property names as keys and JSHandle instances for the property values.

page.goto('https://example.com/')
window_handle = page.evaluate_handle("window")
properties = window_handle.properties
puts properties
window_handle.dispose

get_property​

def get_property(propertyName)

Fetches a single property from the referenced object.

json_value​

def json_value

Returns a JSON representation of the object. If the object has a toJSON function, it will not be called.

NOTE: The method will return an empty JSON object if the referenced object is not stringifiable. It will throw an error if the object has circular references.