How to use beforeAnyAlertCall method of org.openqa.selenium.support.events.Interface WebDriverListener class

Unless you are creating a profile that explicitly installs firefox extensions/plugins Selenium Webdriver will create a blank profile and use that.

Can you show us what code you are using to call the FF driver?

Like you said since the xpath for the next button is the same on every page it won't work. It's working as coded in that it does wait for the element to be displayed but since it's already displayed then the implicit wait doesn't apply because it doesn't need to wait at all. Why don't you use the fact that the url changes since from your code it appears to change when the next button is clicked. I do C# but I guess in Java it would be something like:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
String startURL = //a starting url;
String currentURL = null;
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);

foo(driver,startURL);

/* go to next page */
if(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='someID']")).isDisplayed()){
    String previousURL = driver.getCurrentUrl();
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='someID']")).click();  
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

    ExpectedCondition e = new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
          public Boolean apply(WebDriver d) {
            return (d.getCurrentUrl() != previousURL);
          }
        };

    wait.until(e);
    currentURL = driver.getCurrentUrl();
    System.out.println(currentURL);
} 

While working with Selenium v3.11.x, GeckoDriver v0.20.0 and Firefox Quantum v59.0.2 there are different option to invoke a new/existing Firefox Profile

If you are looking to use a new Firefox Profile on every run of your Test Execution you can use the following code block :

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\path\\to\\geckodriver.exe");
FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();
options.setProfile(new FirefoxProfile());
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
driver.get("https://www.google.com");

If you are looking to use an existing Firefox Profile on every run of your Test Execution first you have to create a Firefox Profile manually following the instructions at Creating a new Firefox profile on Windows.

Now you have 2 ways to invoke the Firefox Profile you have created as follows :

• You can use the FirefoxOptions class to invoke the existing Firefox Profile and you can use the following code block :

  System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\path\\to\\geckodriver.exe");
  ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
  FirefoxProfile testprofile = profile.getProfile("debanjan");
  FirefoxOptions opt = new FirefoxOptions();
  opt.setProfile(testprofile);
  WebDriver driver =  new FirefoxDriver(opt);
  driver.get("https://www.google.com");
  

• You can also use the DesiredCapabilities class to set the existing Firefox Profile and later merge within an instance of FirefoxOptions and you can use the following code block :

  System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\path\\to\\geckodriver.exe");
  ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
  FirefoxProfile testprofile = profile.getProfile("debanjan");
  DesiredCapabilities dc = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
  dc.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, testprofile);
  FirefoxOptions opt = new FirefoxOptions();
  opt.merge(dc);
  WebDriver driver =  new FirefoxDriver(opt);
  driver.get("https://www.google.com");
  

Just for anyone else who's looking for an answer in Ruby, Python, and C# bindings (Selenium 2.33.0).

Note that the actual keys to send depend on your OS. For example, Mac uses CMD + T, instead of Ctrl + T.

Ruby

require 'selenium-webdriver'

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.get('http://stackoverflow.com/')

body = driver.find_element(:tag_name => 'body')
body.send_keys(:control, 't')

driver.quit

Python

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com/")

body = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("body")
body.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 't')

driver.close()

C#

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;

namespace StackOverflowTests {

    class OpenNewTab {

        static void Main(string[] args) {

            IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://stackoverflow.com/");

            IWebElement body = driver.FindElement(By.TagName("body"));
            body.SendKeys(Keys.Control + 't');

            driver.Quit();
        }
    }
}

In java object typecasting one object reference can be type cast into another object reference. The cast can be to its own class type or to one of its subclass or superclass types or interfaces. So what you are doing is incorrect. To create object of Select using myElement do:

Select myDropDown=new Select(myElement);

To know more you can also try out by looking instanceOf. Here you can check it as:

if (myElement instanceof Select)
    System.out.println(true);
else
    System.out.println(false);

and you will get your answer.

When I encounter this error it's usually one of two things.

The Selenium version does not support the browser version Double check the Selenium/browser versions are the same when ran from Eclipse vs Maven. Double check Eclipse and Maven are configured to use the same Selenium version. This occurred for me when my browser auto updates so I turned that off in the browser.

The Selenium tests are running in headless mode Unlikely if your manually executing mvn on the same machine as Eclipse. This occurred for me when running Selenium through Maven on my Jenkins server. The Jenkins server was running in headless mode. Took me minute to figure out the headless stuff, think I set a DISPLAY env variable in Linux or something.

The error says it all :

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: call function result missing 'value'
(Session info: chrome=65.0.3325.181)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.33.506120 (e3e53437346286c0bc2d2dc9aa4915ba81d9023f),platform=Windows NT 6.3.9600 x86_64) 
Build info: version: '3.4.0', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown'
System info: host: 'NIL-MKODAGA-D13', ip: '172.16.20.242', os.name: 'Windows 8.1', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.3', java.version: '9.0.1'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver

The error clearly says that the Selenium Client and ChromeDriver is not getting detected back as in :

Build info: version: '3.4.0', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown'  
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver

Your main issue is the version compatibility between the binaries you are using as follows :

• You are using chromedriver=2.33
• Release Notes of chromedriver=2.33 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome v60-62

• You are using chrome=65.0
• Release Notes of ChromeDriver v2.37 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome v64-66

• Your Selenium Client version is 3.4.0 of which is a bit older.

So there is a clear mismatch between the Selenium Client v3.4.0 , ChromeDriver version (v2.33) and the Chrome Browser version (v65.0)

Solution

• Upgrade Selenium to current levels Version 3.11.0.
• Upgrade ChromeDriver to current ChromeDriver v2.37 level.
• Keep Chrome version at Chrome v65.x levels. (as per ChromeDriver v2.37 release notes)
• Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.
• Use CCleaner tool to wipe off all the OS chores before and after the execution of your test Suite.
• If your base Web Client version is too old, then uninstall it through Revo Uninstaller and install a recent GA and released version of Web Client.
• Take a System Reboot.
• Execute your @Test.

You can actually use single quotes too:

By.xpath("//*[@id='ext-gen1035']/div/div[3]/i")

Or escape double quotes with a backslash:

By.xpath("//*[@id=\"ext-gen1035\"]/div/div[3]/i")

I can show you how to get the description partially using reflection.

First of all, we have to fix the Annotation @Name because you didn't add RetentionPolicy:

@Target({ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.CONSTRUCTOR})
@Retention(value = RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface Name {
    String Description() default "";
}

Now, what I did and tested, we create storage for the names and we're gonna store them when initializing the Page Objects like this:

public class NameStore {
    public static HashMap<WebElement, String> map = new HashMap<>();

    public static void store(Object pageObject) {
        Field[] fields = pageObject.getClass().getDeclaredFields();
        for (Field field : fields) {
            Name annotation = field.getAnnotation(Name.class);
            if (annotation != null) {
                try {
                    map.put((WebElement) field.get(pageObject), annotation.Description());
                } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }
    }

    public static String getDescription(WebElement element) {
        return map.get(element);
    }
}

You pass a Page Object as an argument, @Name annotation is read and stored into the HashMap<WebElement, String>

Initialize name storing in a constructor:

    public PageObject(WebDriver driver) {
        PageFactory.initElements(driver, this);
        NameStore.store(this); //THIS IS CRUCIAL. Also make sure that's always AFTER PageFactory initialization
    }

And now, to update your click method:

public static void click(WebElement element) throws Throwable {
        try {
            element.click();
        } catch(ElementNotInteractableException E1) {
            throw new UnableToInteractWithElementException("Unable To Interact With " + NameStore.get(element));
        }
    }

Hope it helps!

Disclaimer: I didn't test it in the context of multi-threading. I did not test in the context of a constructor.