How to know if a page has been reloaded after some ajax refresh

[Vincent Massol]

Hi there,

I have a page that has javascript that reloads the page. I'm using the PageObject strategy and I'd like to know if there's a generic way for my method in the PageObject to wait till the page has finished reloading.

If that's not possible then I need that the code using the PageObject method to do his own wait. I'd prefer it if it could be done generically.

Thanks

[Binken]

You can do some waiter until element appears in the new page

[Vincent Massol]

Hi Binken,

It's not possible to do this generically in the PageObject since the page that refreshes is the *same* as the previous page so the wait will immediately return before the new page has loaded.

Thanks

[Binken]

Maybe you can have a look at this

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/1306f610fe95dd4b

[Nilesh]

If your application is AJAX heavy and if you are using PageFactory
along with PageObjects then you can use AjaxElementLocatorFactory[1].
This is useful for finding elements in general.

AjaxElementLocatorFactory factory = new
AjaxElementLocatorFactory(driver, 15/*TimeOut*/);

As of the Page to load, in my case, I am using jQuery.Active property
to make sure if the AJAX requests are complete or not. I have
something like below in my method. I am able to use jQuery object
because our application uses jQuery. If your application does not use
jQuery then perhaps you will have to find some other ways like
ImplicitlyWait or WebDriverWait etc

while(AJAXCompletesUntilCertainTimeOut){
if(((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return
jQuery.active;").toString().equals("0")){
return true;
}
}
[1]http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/java/org/openqa/
selenium/support/pagefactory/AjaxElementLocatorFactory.html

[Nilesh]

I meant while AJAX not complete until certain time out in the while
loop. You will have to implement that logic using some kind of timers.

while(AJAXNOTCompleteUntilCertainTimeOut){

[Rostislav Matl]

Use either com.thoughtworks.selenium.Wait or WebDriverWait and
ExpectedCondition from
org.openqa.selenium.support.ui - combine it with JavascriptExecutor.
If you add some variable
(some counter e.g.) to AJAX handler you can easily check its value in
the until() method of
mentioned classes.

[Vincent Massol]

Hi Binken,

The link you gave is a gmail link which doesn't work for me obviously ;)

Thanks!

[Vincent Massol]

Hi,

I'm already using AjaxElementLocatorFactory. jQuery.Active seem error prone since checking it will return that there's no active queries for the current page if it gets executed before the page has been refreshed. Also I made a mistake in the title of the post, it's not an Ajax refresh but simply a JS refresh.

Thanks anyway