Cannot wait for system alerts 'Argument type IndexableSystemElement is not assignable to parameter type NativeElement'

[APrincipe21]

What happened?

Using the system.element(by.system.label("Allow")) method that was released two weeks ago is almost useless unless your app is built to conform to this. We login and the privacy alert is shown but there's some delay and no way to account for the delay other than a hard wait.

await waitFor(system.element(by.system.label("Allow")))
        .toBeVisible()
        .withTimeout(15000);

Above is not accepted due to 'Argument type IndexableSystemElement is not assignable to parameter type NativeElement' we should be able to call waitFor on this method since there's no way to precisely expect an iOS system alert.

What was the expected behaviour?

Ideally you would be able to wait until the alert is shown using other methods.

Was it tested on latest Detox?

• I have tested this issue on the latest Detox release and it still reproduces.

Did your test throw out a timeout?

• I have followed the instructions under Identifying which synchronization mechanism causes us to wait too much.

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[noomorph]

@asafkorem can you check this?

[asafkorem]

@noomorph @APrincipe21 This is not a bug. This usage is invalid. System APIs can't be used with waitFor.
This can be an enhancement request, so I'll keep this open with new labels + contributions are welcome :)

TBH, I need to see it with my own eyes, other dialogs that we test on our test-app doesn't have this issue..

For now, if you have to, you can do a busy-sleep or implement some try-catch mechanism as a workaround.