grafana/k6 · error

parsing selectText options: %w

Error message

parsing selectText options: %w

What it means

Thrown synchronously by ElementHandle.selectText() when its options fail to parse. selectText() parses common.ElementHandleBaseOptions (force, noWaitAfter, timeout), whose Parse in common/element_handle_options.go only leniently coerces and always returns nil, so this wrap is defensive and effectively unreachable in current k6.

Source

Thrown at internal/js/modules/k6/browser/browser/element_handle_mapping.go:215

			}), nil
		},
		"selectOption": func(values sobek.Value, opts sobek.Value) (*sobek.Promise, error) {
			convValues, err := ConvertSelectOptionValues(vu.Runtime(), values)
			if err != nil {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("parsing select options values: %w", err)
			}
			popts := common.NewElementHandleBaseOptions(eh.DefaultTimeout())
			if err := popts.Parse(vu.Context(), opts); err != nil {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("parsing selectOption options: %w", err)
			}
			return promise(vu, func() (any, error) {
				return eh.SelectOption(convValues, popts) //nolint:wrapcheck
			}), nil
		},
		"selectText": func(opts sobek.Value) (*sobek.Promise, error) {
			popts := common.NewElementHandleBaseOptions(eh.DefaultTimeout())
			if err := popts.Parse(vu.Context(), opts); err != nil {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("parsing selectText options: %w", err)
			}
			return promise(vu, func() (any, error) {
				return nil, eh.SelectText(popts) //nolint:wrapcheck
			}), nil
		},
		"setChecked": func(checked bool, opts sobek.Value) (*sobek.Promise, error) {
			popts := common.NewElementHandleSetCheckedOptions(eh.DefaultTimeout())
			if err := popts.Parse(vu.Context(), opts); err != nil {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("parsing setChecked options: %w", err)
			}
			return promise(vu, func() (any, error) {
				return nil, eh.SetChecked(checked, popts) //nolint:wrapcheck
			}), nil
		},
		"setInputFiles": func(files sobek.Value, opts sobek.Value) (*sobek.Promise, error) {
			popts := common.NewElementHandleSetInputFilesOptions(eh.DefaultTimeout())
			if err := popts.Parse(vu.Context(), opts); err != nil {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("parsing setInputFiles options: %w", err)

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Solutions

1. Use only { force, noWaitAfter, timeout } with a millisecond number
2. Confirm the target is a text input or textarea before calling selectText
3. Upgrade k6 if this message appears, as current Parse cannot fail
4. Read the wrapped cause after the colon to identify the failing field

Example fix

// before
await el.selectText({ timeout: '10s' });

// after
await el.selectText({ timeout: 10000 });

const ALLOWED = new Set(['force', 'noWaitAfter', 'timeout']);
const bad = Object.keys(opts || {}).filter(k => !ALLOWED.has(k));
if (bad.length) console.warn(`selectText(): unsupported options ignored: ${bad.join(', ')}`);
if (opts?.timeout !== undefined && !Number.isFinite(Number(opts.timeout))) {
  throw new Error('selectText(): timeout must be ms number');
}

function isSelectTextOpts(o) {
  if (o == null) return true;
  return (o.force === undefined || typeof o.force === 'boolean') &&
         (o.noWaitAfter === undefined || typeof o.noWaitAfter === 'boolean') &&
         (o.timeout === undefined || Number.isFinite(o.timeout));
}

try {
  await el.selectText(opts);
} catch (e) {
  if (/parsing selectText options/.test(String(e.message))) {
    console.log(`fix selectText options: ${e.message}`);
  } else throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: In current code none: force/noWaitAfter/timeout accept any JS value via coercion; unknown option keys are ignored.

Common situations: Scripts ported from Playwright passing extra keys; timeouts given as strings; attributing a selectText failure to options when the real error (element not an input/textarea, or a timeout inside the promise) happens later.

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AI-assisted analysis of grafana/k6@93accf6570 (2026-08-15). Data as JSON: /api/errors/b537c982ee50dc44. Report an issue: GitHub.