How to use toString method of org.openqa.selenium.Enum WindowType class

In Selenium 2.0, if you are using WebDriver to drive the tests in the browser, you can use the WebDriver.TargetLocator class to get the element in focus, in a window/frame:

WebDriver driver = ... // initialize the driver
WebElement currentElement = driver.switchTo().activeElement();

If no element is in focus, the active element would turn out to be the body of the document being displayed, which might be the case when you launch a new page, for instance. When you invoke methods like click, sendKeys etc. you'll find the WebElement returned by the above invocation will always represent the element in focus.

This was tested using FirefoxDriver, and I would suspect that the same would be true of other drivers, except for the HtmlUnitDriver and similar drivers that do not use a full-fledged browser under the hood.

If its an advertisement then I think it would be a new window, you can use getallwindowtitles, then loop thru the result to get to the adv window, use selectwindow and then close the window using close. Return back using selectwindow(0)

ElementNotInteractableException

ElementNotInteractableException is the W3C exception which is thrown to indicate that although an element is present on the HTML DOM, it is not in a state that can be interacted with.

Reasons & Solutions :

The reason for ElementNotInteractableException to occur can be numerous.

1. Temporary Overlay of other WebElement over the WebElement of our interest :

   In this case, the direct solution would have been to induce ExplicitWait i.e. WebDriverWait in combination with ExpectedCondition as invisibilityOfElementLocated as folllows:

   WebDriverWait wait2 = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
   wait2.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("xpath_of_element_to_be_invisible")));
   driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath_element_to_be_clicked")).click();
   

   A better solution will be to get a bit more granular and instead of using ExpectedCondition as invisibilityOfElementLocated we can use ExpectedCondition as elementToBeClickable as follows:

   WebDriverWait wait1 = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
   WebElement element1 = wait1.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("xpath_of_element_to_be_clicked")));
   element1.click();
   

2. Permanent Overlay of other WebElement over the WebElement of our interest :

   If the overlay is a permanent one in this case we have to cast the WebDriver instance as JavascriptExecutor and perform the click operation as follows:

   WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.xpath("element_xpath"));
   JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
   executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", ele);
   

I got it to work with Firefox webdriver by the following:

profile.SetPreference("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", "google.com");
driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://user:pwd@google.com");

According to Ashley Wilson's report from sauce labs:

Pros:

1. They’re faster
2. They’re more readable
3. CSS is jQuery’s locating strategy
4. No one else uses XPATH anyways!

It's a bit outdated, however here are the numbers:

Personally, I would argue about (2)-nd statement, I must agree with the rest.

Cons:

1. No "bottom up" navigation. XPath has elem\..\another_elem
2. Is Sizzle injected? Or Browser's CSS locator parser is used? Depends on the browser, and there are inconsistencies.

Check the below links:

• Implicit Wait - It instructs the web driver to wait for some time by poll the DOM. Once you declared implicit wait it will be available for the entire life of web driver instance. By default the value will be 0. If you set a longer default, then the behavior will poll the DOM on a periodic basis depending on the browser/driver implementation.

• Explicit Wait + ExpectedConditions - It is the custom one. It will be used if we want the execution to wait for some time until some condition achieved.

I had the same question and here is what I found somewhere on the Internet (maybe on stackoverflow, I cannot remember). I just added a line to delete the file so that by calling this method at the beginning of my test, I'm making sure the file does not exist anymore when trying to download it again.

  public boolean isFileDownloaded(String downloadPath, String fileName) {
  File dir = new File(downloadPath);
  File[] dirContents = dir.listFiles();

  for (int i = 0; i < dirContents.length; i++) {
      if (dirContents[i].getName().equals(fileName)) {
          // File has been found, it can now be deleted:
          dirContents[i].delete();
          return true;
      }
          }
      return false;
  }

You just have to call with this single line: isFileDownloaded("C:\Path\To\Your\Folder", "yourPdfFile.abc");

Hope this helps!

So, you want to page-object method, wich will conditionaly return instance of Page1 or Page2. For that, you created method of type Page. And you want to execute this method and continue to work with instance of Page1 or Page2 depends on condition without cast. Right? You can do it via generics. Here is simplified example:

class Page{
    <T extends Page> T conditionalAction( T pageObject ){
        return pageObject;
    }
}
class Page1 extends Page{
    Page1 action1(){ return this; }
}
class Page2 extends Page{
    Page2 action2(){ return this; }
}

Now, you can do something like:

Page1 page1 = new Page1();
Page2 page2 = new Page2();
page1.action1()
     .conditionalAction( page1 )
     .action1()
     .conditionalAction( page2 )
     .action2();

You are free to use such method of generic return type anywhere in your parent/clild class.

And if you want just to assert the class you get from a method, you can do the check:

public Page conditionalAction( boolean condition ) {
    if ( condition ) {
        return new Page1();
    } else {
        return new Page2();
    }
}

// in test

Page result = new Page1().conditionalAction( true );
if ( result instanceof Page1 ){
    Page1 page1 = (Page1) result;
} else if ( result instanceof Page2 ){
    Page2 page2 = (Page2) result;
}

Use this when you run your code on a local machine:

private WebDriver driver = null;

public void open() throws Exception
{
    driver = new FirefoxDriver();
}

And this when you run your code on a remote server:

private WebDriver driver = null;

public void openHeadless() throws Exception
{
    FirefoxBinary binary = new FirefoxBinary(new File("/usr/local/bin/firefox"));
    binary.setEnvironmentProperty("DISPLAY",System.getProperty("lmportal.xvfb.id",":99"));
    driver = new FirefoxDriver(binary,null);
}