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How to use withSilent method of org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriverService.Builder class

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1import org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriverService;2import org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeOptions;3EdgeOptions options = new EdgeOptions();4options.setCapability("silent", true);5EdgeDriverService service = new EdgeDriverService.Builder()6    .withSilent(true)7    .usingAnyFreePort()8    .build();9service.start();10service.stop();11EdgeOptions options = new EdgeOptions();12options.setCapability("silent", true);13options.withSilent(true);14EdgeOptions options = new EdgeOptions();15options.setCapability("silent", true);16options.withSilent(true);17EdgeOptions options = new EdgeOptions();18options.setCapability("silent", true);19options.withSilent(true);

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1System.setProperty("webdriver.edge.driver","C:\\Users\\Selenium\\Selenium\\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe");2EdgeDriverService service = new EdgeDriverService.Builder()3.withSilent(true)4.usingDriverExecutable(new File("C:\\Users\\Selenium\\Selenium\\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe"))5.build();6EdgeDriver driver = new EdgeDriver(service);7driver.close();8service.stop();

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There is a very good plugin that can be used with selenium project shadow-automation-selenium. It helps in writing much better, readable and maintainable code. Using this you can access multi level of shadow DOM (upto 4 levels ) . This uses simple css selector to identify elements.

WebElement findElement(String cssSelector) : use this method if want single element from DOM

List<WebElement> findElements(String cssSelector) : use this if you want to find all elements from DOM

WebElement findElements(WebElement parent, String cssSelector) : use this if you want to find a single elements from parent object DOM

List<WebElement> findElements(WebElement parent, String cssSelector) : use this if you want to find all elements from parent object DOM

WebElement getShadowElement(WebElement parent,String selector) : use this if you want to find a single element from parent DOM

List<WebElement> getAllShadowElement(WebElement parent,String selector) : use this if you want to find all elements from parent DOM

boolean isVisible(WebElement element) : use this if you want to find visibility of element

boolean isChecked(WebElement element) : use this if you want to check if checkbox is selected

boolean isDisabled(WebElement element) : use this if you want to check if element is disabled

String getAttribute(WebElement element,String attribute) : use this if you want to get attribute like aria-selected and other custom attributes of elements.

void selectCheckbox(String label) : use this to select checkbox element using label.

void selectCheckbox(WebElement parentElement, String label) : use this to select checkbox element using label.

void selectRadio(String label) : use this to select radio element using label.

void selectRadio(WebElement parentElement, String label) : use this to select radio element from parent DOM using label.

void selectDropdown(String label) : use this to select dropdown list item using label (use this if only one dropdown is present or loaded on UI).

void selectDropdown(WebElement parentElement, String label) : use this to select dropdown list item from parent DOM using label.

How to use this plugin: You will have to dependency in your project.

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.github.sukgu</groupId>
  <artifactId>automation</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.4</version>
<dependency>

for html tag that resides under a shadow-root dom element

<properties-page id="settingsPage"> 
  <textarea id="textarea">
</properties-page>

You can use this code in your framework to grab the textarea element Object.

  import io.github.sukgu.*;
  Shadow shadow = new Shadow(driver);
  WebElement element = shadow.findElement("properties-page#settingsPage>textarea#textarea");
  String text = element.getText();

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55761810/how-to-automate-shadow-dom-elements-using-selenium

One other way to launch chrome in incognito mode is to add argument "-incognito" like following:

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--incognito");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);

This solution works for me.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19026295/run-chrome-browser-in-inconginto-mode-in-selenium

For a Windows machine :

new File("C:/Users/" + System.getProperty("user.name") + "/Downloads/");

Could use similar snippets for any other operating system.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25296569/how-to-access-generic-users-my-downloads-folder-in-java

Managed to solve this problem with the hint that Saurabh Gaur gave me

Here is my HTML document that I tested the application with, its called Index.html:

<html>
<head>
    <title>I am the title, haha!</title>
</head>
<body>
    <p id="id1">I am id1</p>
    <a href="www.google.com" id="ihatejava">end my suffering</a>
<body>
</html>

and here is my java code. all it does is add a listener to the HTML elements:

public class Main extends Application {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    launch(args);
}

@Override
public void start(Stage stage) throws MalformedURLException {
    WebView webView = new WebView();
    WebEngine engine = webView.getEngine();
    engine.load(new File("PATH/TO/Index.html").toURI().toURL().toExternalForm());

    Scene scene = new Scene(webView);
    stage.setScene(scene);
    stage.show();

    //we need this to check if the document has finished loading, otherwise it would be null and throw a exception
    engine.getLoadWorker().stateProperty().addListener((obs, oldState, currentState) -> {
        if (currentState == State.SUCCEEDED) {
            Document doc = engine.getDocument();
            addListeners(doc);
        }
    });
}

private void addListeners(Document doc) {
    Element link1 = doc.getElementById("id1");
    ((EventTarget) link1).addEventListener("click", e -> {
        System.out.println("id1 was clicked!");
    }, false);

    Element link2 = doc.getElementById("ihatejava");
    ((EventTarget) link2).addEventListener("click", e -> {
        System.out.println("ihatejava was clicked!");
    }, false);
}
}

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48147930/selenium-webview-get-clicked-element

Unfortunately, you can't do that as of now (January 2013, Selenium 2.29.1), because Selenium doesn't support <input type="file" multiple> elements.

There is a feature enhancement request for this made by the project developers themselves, it's just not yet implemented. You can star it there to move it upwards in the priority list.

Also, as far as I know, you can't really drag a file from desktop to a WebElement in a reliable way.

A workaround might be the use of AutoIT (Windows only) or the Robot class (will also work only on setups similar to yours) and type the path "blindly" into the dialog:

driver.findElement(By.id("up-drop-zone-input")).click();
Robot r = new Robot();
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_C);        // C
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_C);
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_COLON);    // : (colon)
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_COLON);
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_SLASH);    // / (slash)
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_SLASH);
// etc. for the whole file path

r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);    // confirm by pressing Enter in the end
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);

It sucks, but it should work. Note that you might need these: How can I make Robot type a `:`? and Convert String to KeyEvents (plus there is the new and shiny KeyEvent#getExtendedKeyCodeForChar() which does similar work, but is available only from JDK7).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14592853/how-to-upload-a-file-in-selenium-with-no-text-box

You can try this one too as CSS Selector

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[type='button'][value='Open device access']")).click();

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[type='button']")).click();

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16524290/button-click-selenium-java

You can use:

yourelement.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN) or .sendKeys(Keys.ENTER) : which is an equivalent of focusing that element and hitting RETURN/ENTER on that element

Also, There are methods to do this using Javacript but it is not usually recommended:

using the non-native Javascript Executor:

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click();", yourelement);

or by using Javascript Library:

JavascriptLibrary jsLib = new JavascriptLibrary();`
jsLib.callEmbeddedSelenium(driver, "triggerMouseEventAt", we, "click", "0,0");

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35770992/how-many-ways-to-click-on-webelement-in-webdriver

There's probably a click event transmitted to the <input type="file"> element, which opens the file dialog.

One way to overcome this issue is to disable the internal click by overriding the method. This piece of JavaScript will disable the internal click for each <input type="file"> element:

((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(
    "HTMLInputElement.prototype.click = function() {                     " +
    "  if(this.type !== 'file') HTMLElement.prototype.click.call(this);  " +
    "};                                                                  " );

Then upload the file by calling .sendKeys("full file path") on the <input type="file"> element.

In some cases, the <input type="file"> only resides in memory. If that's the case, you'll have to insert it in the page:

((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(
    "HTMLInputElement.prototype.click = function () {" +
    "    if (this.type !== 'file') {" +
    "        HTMLElement.prototype.click.call(this);" +
    "    }" +
    "    else if (!this.parentNode) {" +
    "        this.style.display = 'none';" +
    "        this.ownerDocument.documentElement.appendChild(this);" +
    "        this.addEventListener('change', () => this.remove());" +
    "    }" +
    "}");

See https://gist.github.com/florentbr/d7bee068932bdf6e00af3b9f01af9af6

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39259460/selenium-close-file-picker-dialog

TL;DR: Always use explicit wait. Forget that implicit wait exists.

Here is a quick rundown on the differences between explicit and implicit wait:

Explicit wait:

documented and defined behaviour.
runs in the local part of selenium (in the language of your code).
works on any condition you can think of.
returns either success or timeout error.
can define absence of element as success condition.
can customize delay between retries and exceptions to ignore.

Implicit wait:

undocumented and practically undefined behaviour.
runs in the remote part of selenium (the part controlling the browser).
only works on find element(s) methods.
returns either element found or (after timeout) not found.
if checking for absence of element must always wait until timeout.
cannot be customized other than global timeout.

Code examples with explanation. First implicit wait:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.get("http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading");
WebElement myDynamicElement = driver.findElement(By.id("myDynamicElement"));

Now explicit wait:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading");
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement myDynamicElement = wait.until(
  ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("myDynamicElement")));

Both code examples do the same thing. Find a certain element and give up if not found after 10 seconds. The implicit wait can do only this. It can only try to find an element with a timeout. The strength of explicit wait is that it can wait for all kinds of conditions. Also customize timeout and ignore certain exceptions.

Example of possible conditions: elementToBeClickable, numberOfElementsToBeMoreThan or invisibilityOf. Here is a list of the built in expected conditions: https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/support/ui/ExpectedConditions.html

More explanations:

The implicit wait timeout has effect only on findElement* methods. If set then all findElement* will "wait" for the set time before declaring that the element cannot be found.

How a findElement* will wait is not defined. It depends on browser or operating system or version of selenium. Possible implementations are:

repeatedly try to find element until timeout. return as soon as element is found.
try to find element. wait until timeout. try again.
wait until timeout. try to find element.

This list is gathered from observations and reading bug reports and cursory reading of selenium source code.

My conclusion: Implicit wait is bad. The capabilities are limited. The behaviour is undocumented and implementation dependent.

Explicit wait can do everything implicit wait can and more. The only disadvantage of explicit wait is a bit more verbose code. But that verbosity makes the code explicit. And explicit is better that implicit. Right?

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