How do I find element in page number 4 looping trough 3 pages.

[Mike]

Hi

I am trying to find element in page that you have to go trough 3 pages to get to it 

If I navigate page by page I can find the element by keep clicking next button but If I add while loop it get to the last page and stop,

here is the page:

<div class="guestForm">

<input id="reservations0.guests0.id" type="hidden" value="0" name="reservations[0].guests[0].id">

<br>

<div class="form-border">

<h5>

<div class="field-col left">

<div class="field-row ">

<div class="field-row ">

<div class="field-row ">

<label>

<input id="reservations0.guests0.firstName" class="field err_fld" type="text" maxlength="40" value="" name="reservations[0].guests[0].firstName">

<div class="error">

</div>

Here is my function:

public void checkForElementExist() {
    // driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='reservations0.guests0.firstName"));
    WebElement x = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='reservations0.guests0.firstName"));
    while (!(x.equals("reservations0.guests0.firstName"))){
        System.out.println("Didn't Find it +++> " );
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='search']/a")).click();
    }if ((x.equals("reservations0.guests0.firstName"))){
        System.out.println("Find it$$$> " + x);
    }else
        return;

}

Thanks

[David Lai]

Are you talking about page pages, or pages in a paginated view (ajax)?

A good way to handle paginated views, is to use the a StaleElement check, to use to wait for the old page contents to be unloaded.

while( some condition ) {

  if( element you're looking for not found) {

    IWebelement old = //find some element on the page;

    //click next page button.

   if( element you're looking for exist) break;

    // call wait wrapper to wait for 'old' element to become stale.    

  }

}

[Mike]

Hi

Thanks David.

Just regular pages.in page one i check for input field that has id='reservations0.guests0.firstName'

I know is not in the 1st page and I click on button which take you to page 2 than 3 than 4 where the element exist.

If I just use click on next 3 times I can find the element but if I want to use the while loop the loop doesn't start for me.

The reason why I want to use the while loop because the number of pages changes.

Thanks

[Kavan Sheth]

Hi Mike,

Not getting your code at all, check if any of the below applies.

1. if element is not found at first place it will throw NoSuchElement Exception , if you are talking about text than might be ok.

2. why are you directly comparing x(a WebElement) with "reservations0.guests0.firstName"? Any way , if you are checking text for that element use .getText()

3. in while loop, where you are updating(refreshing) value of your variable(WebElement) x after clicking on search?

    because of it is a page refresh , you need to get value again.

use print statements to understand behavior.

I hope this will help,

Thanks,

Kavan Sheth

mylearnings.net

[Pavan Turlapati]

I guess you can do something like this:

1. Add Page1,Page2, Page3 links can be added to an IList<IWebElement>.

2. Declare a boolean variable (objNotFound) with default value as true.

3. Have a While now  (while(objNotFound))

4. In the While have a ForEach of the above step 1 created links

5. In the Foreach 

        Click on the First(i) Page

        Check element existence

        If Object found Return true

        else loop

        

IList<IWebelement> pagesList=driver.GetElements(By.XPath(""));

bool objNotFound=true;

while(objNotFound)

{

  foreach(IWebElement ele in pagesList)

  {

   try

   {

      IWeblement searchElement=driver.getElement(By.XPath(""));

      if (searchElement!=null)

      {

       objNotFound=false;

       return searchElement;

      }  

   }

  catch // Obj Not Found

  {

    objNotFound=true;

   }

  } //ForEach

}//While

On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 1:00:05 AM UTC+5:30, Mike wrote:

[Mike]

Thanks

But that didn't work either.

still can't find solution.