How to concate the String in the xpath by using page factory.

[sachin patil]

Hi Team 

My question is how to concate the String variable in the XPath by using the page factory.

I am able to do this using find element method, 

                 String visaFees = "Mumbai";

WebElement element  = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[contains(text(),'" + visaFees + "')]"));

I am not able to do this using page Factory (@FindBy annotation), 

String visaFees = "Mumbai";

@FindBy(xpath = "//span[contains(text(),'" + visaFees + "')]")

WebElement element;

Can you guys please help me with this?

Best Regard
Sachin Patil
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[Karthik Deepan]

What error you are getting when you run the code?

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[Karthik Deepan]

I mean to ask, while running your code, if you are getting element not found exception, you can check if the XPATH is correctly concatenated - 

Mar 23, 2019 3:40:22 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Detected dialect: OSS
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"(//span[contains(text(),'Login')])[4]"}
  (Session info: chrome=72.0.3626.121)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.42.591088 (7b2b2dca23cca0862f674758c9a3933e685c27d5),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 0 milliseconds

[sachin patil]

Hi Karthik,

I didn't run the code yet.

Can i concate the xpath using below code?,

                

                 String visaFees = "Mumbai";

@FindBy(xpath = "//span[contains(text(),'" + visaFees + "')]") ==> Error = The value for annotation attribute FindBy.xpath must be a constant expression

WebElement element;

When i move my mouse over xpath that time i get the "The value for annotation attribute FindBy.xpath must be a constant expression"

 error.

  

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Sachin Patil
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[Satish Devulapalli]

We can't put variables in @ findby expression, you have to use constant expression

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[Vimal Kumar]

Even I'm looking for some work around how to use dynamic value @FindBy annotation.

Can some please help me on this.

[sachin patil]

Guys, please help if anyone about the same.

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Sachin Patil
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On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:07 PM Vimal Kumar <aruv...@gmail.com> wrote:

Even I'm looking for some work around how to use dynamic value @FindBy annotation.

Can some please help me on this.

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[Bhanu Prasad Sangita]

Hi Sachin,

As said in the above comments we cannot provide dynamic values to the @FindBy as it takes only constant values. Work around would be pass the dynamic value through the parameter for a method and pass it to the xpath defined in that method  and call the method where ever needed. Please find the example below.

Example: 

 public void MethodName(String visaFees ){

WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[contains(text(),'" + visaFees + "')]"));

ele.click(); // what ever the action needed .

}

Note: Call this method where ever needed with the dynamic parameter('visaFees ').

Hope this helps for you.

Thanks & Regards,

Bhanu Prasad Sangita.

[sachin patil]

Hi Bhanu ,

I already have done the solution provided by you but looking for @FIndBy and I guess that is not possible?

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Sachin Patil
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[Bhanu Prasad Sangita]

Yes, we can't do that, Annotations are constant values stored in the class file. We cannot  pass them at runtime.

Hope work around solution helps.