How to find elements dynamically in selenium

Question

Currently in my firefox driver, if I want to locate an element, I write the code as so:

WebDriver firefoxDriver = new FirefoxDriver(); ... firefoxDriver.findElement(By.id("testid")).isDisplayed(); or firefoxDriver.findElement(By.name("testname")).isDisplayed(); or firefoxDriver.findElement(By.class("testclass")).isDisplayed(); etc

However, I have these elements within a separate page like so:

 @FindBy(id = "testid") public WebElement testIdElement; @FindBy(name = "testname") public WebElement testNameElement; @FindBy(class = "testclass") public WebElement testClassElement;

I want to search my elements like the below but the below doesn't work because it expects a By:

firefoxDriver.findElement(elementsPage.testIdElement); or firefoxDriver.findElement(elementsPage.testNameElement); or firefoxDriver.findElement(elementsPage.testClassElement);

What will be the best way to tackle this scenario? I don't really want to keep hard coding the elements, instead better using the elements I have already defined in my elements list.

This is alraedy answered. Please have a look here: stackoverflow.com/questions/18436102/… — Jitendra Singh
– Jitendra Singh, Commented May 15, 2019 at 16:59
Possible duplicate of Selenium @FindBy vs driver.findElement() — Greg Burghardt
– Greg Burghardt, Commented May 15, 2019 at 17:27
You don't have to find the elements, they are already found... that's what testIdElement and the others are, WebElements. Just use those like testIdElement.click(), etc. — JeffC
– JeffC, Commented May 17, 2019 at 20:10

Valga · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-15 18:02:04Z

Simple, declare them as a By like this in your pageObject:

public By testIdElement = By.id("testid"); public By testNameElement = By.name("testname"); public By testClassElement = By.className("testclass");

then call them at the findelements method the way you want to:

firefoxDriver.findElement(elementsPage.testIdElement); firefoxDriver.findElement(elementsPage.testNameElement); firefoxDriver.findElement(elementsPage.testClassElement);

i personally like to put the driver.findElement method in the pageObject as a lambda expression, to avoid rewriting code:

what i do on C#:

public IWebElement Test => webdriver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("test"));

converting to Java:

public WebElement test -> driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("test"));

so, writing my code would be something like this:

page.Test.Click(); page.Test.SendKeys("...");

As i don't like using elements in the Test class, i write these methods in the pageobject (separating test logic from the script), example:

 public PageObjectClassExample ShowFilters() { showFiltersButton.Click(); return this; } public PageObjectClassExample ClearAllFilters() { finalDatePicker.Clear(); initialDatePicker.Clear(); searchButton.Click(); return this; } public PageObjectClassExample HideShowIssuerColunm() { ShowHideColumnBtn.Click(); IssuerColumnCheck.Click(); KeyColumnCheck.Click(); ShowHideColumnBtn.Click(); return this; }

and in the Test file i would write something like this:

PageObjectClassExample page = new PageObjectClassExample(); page .ShowFilters() .ClearAllFilters() .HideShowIssuerColumn();

Thank you Valga, can I ask you to show an example on what you mean by this please? 'i personally like to put the driver.findElement method in the pageObject as a lambda expression, to avoid rewriting code, but each to their own!'
@BruceyBandit Sorry, now that i have read it again, it sounded bad, but i didn't mean anything bad by it, i edited the answer with how i code my selenium scripts

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