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

Yes, this is definitely possible. See this:

// Find the outer element.
WebElement outer = driver.findElement(By.anything("whatever"));

// This doesn't work, it searches the whole page for the XPath expression.
WebElement inner = outer.findElement(By.xpath("//some/nasty/xpath"));

// This works! It takes the outer element as root.
WebElement inner = outer.findElement(By.xpath(".//some/nasty/xpath"));

Therefore, if I understood your need well, your XPath expression needs to look like this:

By.xpath("(.//tbody)[" + j + "]//div[text()=\"" + collector + "\"])")

EDIT (Holy cow, that's a lot of HTML and only a small amount of it is actually needed :).)

Now that I caught what you're after, I think you don't need this approach at all. Try this instead:

WebElement row = driver.findElement(By.xpath("id('CollectorQoSPerformanceMetricsgrid')//div[contains(@class,'x-grid3-row x-unselectable-single') and .//u[text()='" + collector + "']]"));

Only the XPath expression:

id('CollectorQoSPerformanceMetricsgrid')
    //div[contains(@class,'x-grid3-row x-unselectable-single')
          and .//u[text()='" + collector + "'] ]

Taken apart:

FIND ELEM WITH ID = 'CollectorQoSPerformanceMetricsgrid'
id('CollectorQoSPerformanceMetricsgrid')
    FIND ALL DIV ELEMS THAT CONTAIN 'x-grid3-row x-unselectable-single' IN @CLASS
    //div[contains(@class,'x-grid3-row x-unselectable-single')
          AND HAVE AN <U> DESCENDANT WITH TEXT EQUAL TO collector VARIABLE
          and .//u[text()='" + collector + "'] ]

This finds you only the single row you need with a single command.

If you rather want to stick with your current solution, try:

String rowsXpath = "id('CollectorQoSPerformanceMetricsgrid')//div[contains(@class, 'x-grid3-row x-unselectable-single')]";
List<WebElement> rows = driver.findElements(By.xpath(rowsXpath));
boolean foundCollector = false;
for(WebElement row : rows) {
    if(!row.findElements(By.xpath(".//u[text()='" + collector + "']")).isEmpty()) {
        foundCollector = true;
        break;
    }
}

Go with PhantomJS but if running them in chromedriver is required and you have the resources, this blog has a good recipe on running headless selenium with chrome. Requiring you to download the following...

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• NodeJS

If you plan to implement Jenkins or any other CI in the future, I strongly suggest going with PhantomJS though.

As you are using Selenium 3.14.0 as per the FirefoxDriver Class the valid constructors are:

• FirefoxDriver()
• FirefoxDriver(FirefoxOptions options)
• FirefoxDriver(GeckoDriverService service)
• FirefoxDriver(GeckoDriverService service, FirefoxOptions options)
• FirefoxDriver(XpiDriverService service)
• FirefoxDriver(XpiDriverService service, FirefoxOptions options)

So, as per your code attempts the following is not a valid option to invoke FirefoxDriver()

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

Solution

To invoke invoke FirefoxDriver() with the default profile you need to use the setProfile(profile) method to set the FirefoxProfile through an instance of FirefoxOptions() and you can use the following code block:

• Code Block:

  import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions;
  import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
  import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.ProfilesIni;
  import org.testng.annotations.Test;
  
  public class A_FirefoxProfile {
  
        @Test
        public void seleniumFirefox() {
          System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:/Utility/BrowserDrivers/geckodriver.exe");
          ProfilesIni profileIni = new ProfilesIni();
          FirefoxProfile profile = profileIni.getProfile("default");
          FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();
          options.setProfile(profile);
          WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
          driver.get("http://www.google.com");
          System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
        }
  
  }
  

• Console Output:

  [RemoteTestNG] detected TestNG version 6.14.2
  1537775040906   geckodriver INFO    geckodriver 0.20.1
  1537775040923   geckodriver INFO    Listening on 127.0.0.1:28133
  Sep 24, 2018 1:14:30 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
  INFO: Detected dialect: W3C
  Google
  PASSED: seleniumFirefox
  
  ===============================================
      Default test
      Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Skips: 0
  ===============================================
  
  
  ===============================================
  Default suite
  Total tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Skips: 0
  ===============================================
  

This can indeed be done with Selenium and ChromeDriver (tested with Chrome version 85), but using the "print-to-pdf" option when starting Chrome from the webdriver is not the solution.

The thing to do is to use the command execution functionality of ChromeDriver:

https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/remote/RemoteWebDriver.html#execute-java.lang.String-java.util.Map-

There is a command called Page.printToPDF that provides PDF output functionality. A dictionary containing the item "data", with the resulting PDF in base-64-encoded format, is returned.

Unfortunately, I do not have a full Java example, but in this answer, there is a C# example (Selenium methods are named differently in C# compared to Java, but the principle should be the same):

https://stackoverflow.com/a/63970792/2416627

The Page.printToPDF command in Chrome is documented here:

https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Page/#method-printToPDF

This is exactly as expected. If your class name includes a space, WebDriver will see it as a "compound selector". You can either remove the space in your By.className() locator, which should still find the elements you're looking for; or you can move to finding by CSS selectors, using something like By.cssSelector(".cashout_noCash"), which offer far more flexibility for similar functionality. This is exactly what the exception message says.

The problem is in the XPATH of the Product locators.

Below xpath expression in selenium means you are looking for a matching element which CAN BE ANYWHERE in document. Not relative to the parent as you are thinking!!

//div[@class='url']/a

This is why it always returns the same first element.

So, in order to make it relative to the parent element it should be as given below. (just a . before //)

public final static String URL_PATTERN = ".//div[@class='url']/a";
public final static String TITLE_PATTERN = ".//div[@class='title']";

Now you make it search for matching child element relative to the parent.

XPATH in selenium works as given below.

/a/b/c   --> Absolute - from the root

//a/b    --> Matching element which can be anywhere in the document (even outside the parent).

.//a/b   --> Matching element inside the given parent

You should use file address like this:

driver.get("C:\\Users\\sharmayo\\Desktop\\testlogin.html");

instead of:

driver.get("C://Users//sharmayo//Desktop//testlogin.html");

Don't use sleep!!!

public static WebElement findElement(WebDriver driver, By selector, long timeOutInSeconds) {
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeOutInSeconds);
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(selector));

    return findElement(driver, selector);
}

You can do it by adding Chrome's command line switches "--lang".

Basically, all you need is starting ChromeDriver with an ChromeOption argument --lang=es, see API for details.

The following is a working example of C# code for how to start Chrome in Spanish using Selenium.

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--lang=es");
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Java code should be pretty much the same (untested). Remember, locale here is in the form language[-country] where language is the 2 letter code from ISO-639.

public WebDriver getDriver(String locale){   
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "driver/chromedriver.exe");
    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    options.addArguments("--lang=" + locale);
    return new ChromeDriver(options);
}

public void initializeSelenium() throws Exception{
    driver = getDriver("es"); // two letters to represent the locale, or two letters + country
}