by.binding locator strategy matches sub string bindings

[edconolly]

If I have two bindings, where one is a sub string of the other, and the longer binding occurs first on the page it is impossible to get hold of the second binding using the by.binding locator strategy.

<ul>
  <li>{{fooBar}}</li>
  <li>{{foo}}</li>
</ul>

// Both Match and return fooBar binding
element(by.binding('foo'));
element(by.binding('fooBar'))

[juliemr]

True - there should probably be a by.exactBinding or something to get around this.

Slightly-hacky trick which will work for now: element(by.binding('{{foo}}'));

[edconolly]

I would have expected it the other way around, IMO by.binding should do exact matching, by.partialBinding would match foo to fooBar. Thanks for the hacky trick.

[edconolly]

happy to submit a PR if you're interested in making the change?

[juliemr]

@edconolly I would be OK adding an 'exactBinding' - I don't think changing (backwards-breaking) the behavior of binding would be great.

[edconolly]

sure makes sense. I'll whip something up this weekend.

[hankduan]

#812

[hankduan]

change is merged into master