C# WebDriverWait.Until > Need a simple example for waiting for a url to contain

[Phil]

How do I use this class to wait until a url contains a piece of text? WebDriverWait Class. There is an example on the bottom which shows how to wait for an element but not for a url to contain something. I searched on the net but it's all old answers relating to ExpectedConditions which is going to be deprecated.

For example:

IWebDriver driver;

...

IWebElement e;

e = wait.Until(driver = driver.Url.Contains("/dashboard"));

But this is currently wrong code because it tells me that it can't convert boolean to a IWebDriver type. It makes sense but that's why I need your guys' help to find the answer. Thanks in advance.

[Josh Abrahamsen]

Hi Phil,

I have this method I use just for that. Get the nuget package DotNetSeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers for it.

public static string WaitForURL(string url, int timeout=30)

        {

            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(Current, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeout));

            wait.Until(SeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers.ExpectedConditions.UrlContains(url));

            return url;

[Phil]

Thanks Josh, I will give it a go!

2020年3月9日月曜日 1時59分25秒 UTC Josh Abrahamsen:

[Mike Hetzer]

With C# - you can use extension methods, which I find pretty convenient when using Selenium

With the example class below you can do an operation like

driver.WaitUntil_UrlContains("UrlPieceToExpect");

This is significantly cleaner than the 2-3 lines of code needed to perform this operation plus creating a new WebDriverWait instance.

I've done this in my framework for all available ExpectedConditions

using OpenQA.Selenium;

using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;

using System;

using ExpectedConditions = SeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers.ExpectedConditions;

namespace SeleniumBase.PageObjects

{

public static class WebDriverExtensions

{

public static void ClickWithJavaScript(this IWebDriver driver, IWebElement element)

{

IJavaScriptExecutor executor = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;

executor.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

}

public static void ClickWithJavaScript(this IWebDriver driver, By locator)

{

IJavaScriptExecutor executor = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;

executor.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].click();", driver.FindElement(locator));

}

public static SelectElement FindSelectElement(this IWebDriver driver, By by)

{

return new SelectElement(driver.FindElement(by));

}

public static IWebDriver GetDefaultContent(this IWebDriver driver)

{

driver.SwitchTo().DefaultContent();

return driver;

}

public static IWebDriver WaitUntil_FrameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(this IWebDriver driver, string frameNameOrId, int timeoutInSeconds = 30)

{

var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));

return wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.FrameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(frameNameOrId));

}

public static IWebDriver WaitUntil_FrameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(this IWebDriver driver, By locator, int timeoutInSeconds = 30)

{

var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));

return wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.FrameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(locator));

}

public static bool WaitUntil_AlertState(this IWebDriver driver, bool expectedState, int timeoutInSeconds = 30)

{

var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));

return wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.AlertState(expectedState));

}

public static IWebDriver WaitUntil_TitleContains(this IWebDriver driver, string text, int timeoutInSeconds = 30)

{

var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));

wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.TitleContains(text));

return driver;

}

public static IWebDriver WaitUntil_TitleIs(this IWebDriver driver, string text, int timeoutInSeconds = 30)

{

var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));

wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.TitleIs(text));

return driver;

}

public static IWebDriver WaitUntil_UrlContains(this IWebDriver driver, string text, int timeoutInSeconds = 30)

{

var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));

wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.UrlContains(text));

return driver;

}

public static IWebDriver WaitUntil_UrlMatches(this IWebDriver driver, string text, int timeoutInSeconds = 30)

{

var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));

wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.UrlMatches(text));

return driver;

}

public static IWebDriver WaitUntil_UrlChangesFrom(this IWebDriver driver, string OldURL, int timeoutInSeconds = 30)

{

var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));

wait.Until(UrlChanges(OldURL));

return driver;

}

public static IWebDriver WaitUntil_UrlToBe(this IWebDriver driver, string text, int timeoutInSeconds = 30)

{

var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));

wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.UrlToBe(text));

return driver;

}

}

}

[John Pulwers]

Mike I like your example which is chock full of goodies. How do you Insert the frame of scrollable copiable code? I'd like to learn this for when I need to include one of scripts for help requests. I LOVE that it is C# because most examples seeM to be JAVA

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[Mike Hetzer]

John, see screenshot for how to add code snippet.

Yeah usually the java/c# sharp translation with Selenium is just going from Camel to Pascal case.

But with this, we get to spoil ourselves with C# goodies like extension methods and properties with getters/setters, which the java ilk do not get to enjoy.

I've also attached another helper class - it can be used as is or possibly turned into extension methods as well.
At the bottom of the class there is a region where we had to create some custom wait functions.

One such method was RetryClick seen below, created for a problematic "type ahead" field that kept generating a new list of selections after each letter was typed and we had to select one of them to properly set the field.

/// <summary>

/// To be used in the event of resolving immediate flakiness.

/// <para>Alternatives to using this method should eventually be found.</para>

/// <para>Especically in cases where blocking elements are known to occur and are not accounted for.</para>

/// </summary>

public static void RetryClick(this IWebDriver driver, By locator, int timeoutInSeconds = 30)

{

    var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));

    if (!wait.Until(Utility.CustomWaitHelpers.ElementToBeClickableAndClickIt(locator)))

    {

        throw new Exception("Element was not able to be successfully clicked!!!");

    }

}

I've been calling these classes up from page/component objects by making a quick property on my BasePage like so . .

public CustomWaitHelpers WaitHelpers

{

    get

    {

return new CustomWaitHelpers(this._driver);

    }

}

[Josh Abrahamsen]

Great examples in here!

[John Pulwers]

Mike - Where is the "{}" icon? What API is that? Is it VS 2019? I can't seem to find it there even with expanding the tool bar options. I would really love to see step by step how to submit HTML and C# code from VS 2019, so I can ask some questions.

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[Mike Hetzer]

Hm, idk, it's just there for me on google groups in Chrome.

If anything you could pu some code on Pastebin and refer to it with a link - or Github "gist" is another easy way to share code snippets

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