Page Object using Page Factory switching driver to i frame

Omair Javaid

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Aug 27, 2015, 8:41:18 AM8/27/15

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Page Object using Page Factory switching driver to i frame,

I have a class where i have initiated all the methods of xxxxxx page and i want to switch to i frame to send title but with below approach i got null pointer error, please suggest how can i do that

locator

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@FindBys({@FindBy(id = "cke_1_contents"), @FindBy(className = "cke_wysiwyg_frame cke_reset"), @FindBy(css = "[aria-describedby='cke_75']")})

private WebElement slideTitle;

Action

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public void setSlideTitle(String slideTitle){

driver.switchTo().frame(submitSlide);

driver.findElement(By.className("cke_wysiwyg_frame cke_reset")).sendKeys(slideTitle);

driver.switchTo().defaultContent();

}

Test Case

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CoursePage coursePage = PageFactory.initElements(driver, CoursePage.class);

coursePage.clickAddSlide();

coursePage.setSlideTitle("Title Slide Lesson"); /// not able to locate this since it is under ifram

coursePage.clickSubmitSlide();

Vladyslav Lopatynskyi

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Aug 27, 2015, 8:54:04 AM8/27/15

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You need to send your driver instance to a method

public void setSlideTitle(String slideTitle, WebDriver driver){

driver.switchTo().frame(submitSlide);

driver.findElement(By.className("cke_wysiwyg_frame cke_reset")).sendKeys(slideTitle);

driver.switchTo().defaultContent();

}

And call it from test coursePage.setSlideTitle("Title Slide Lesson", driver);

But the better approach is to implement Singltone pattern to your page object model

Omair Javaid

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Aug 27, 2015, 9:42:59 AM8/27/15

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What you Means by (better approach is to implement Singltone pattern to your page object model)

Did you Mean how i am initiating my page class at test case

CoursePage coursePage = PageFactory.initElements(driver, CoursePage.class);

If Yes please provide a suggestion

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I Changed my Code to below but still its unable to locate the element your help is much appropriated, let me add the html as well

Error = org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Cannot locate an element using By.chained({By.id: cke_1_contents,By.cssSelector: [ title='Rich Text Editor, name']})

HTML

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<span id="cke_name_arialbl" class="cke_voice_label">Rich Text Editor, name</span>

<span id="cke_75" class="cke_voice_label">Press ALT 0 for help</span>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

</body>

</html>

</iframe>

</div>

Locator

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@FindBys({@FindBy(id = "cke_1_contents"), @FindBy(css = "[ title='Rich Text Editor, name']")})

private WebElement slideTitleIFrame;

Action

=====

public void setSlideTitle(String slideTitle,WebDriver driver){

driver.switchTo().frame(this.slideTitleIFrame);

this.slideTitleIFrame.sendKeys(slideTitle);

driver.switchTo().defaultContent();

}

Test Case

========

CoursePage coursePage = PageFactory.initElements(driver, CoursePage.class);

coursePage.setSlideTitle("Title Slide Lesson",driver);

Vladyslav Lopatynskyi

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Aug 27, 2015, 9:58:46 AM8/27/15

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First of all you wrote that you had nullPointer. So nullPointer gone after you start to send WebDiver object?

Second Part is that FindBy or FindAll annotation return(stores) List of WebElement and not just 1 webElement.

I would suggest you to use xpath in this particular case if you need only 1 element.

Third. if you are using FindBy annotations you don't need to driver.findElelement in your actions. Just used your variable defined previously.

Singltone

I mean keeping single driver object through the whole project, not only inside testClass. This could be done by static driver + code:

private static WebDriver driver = null;

public void instantiateDriver(){

if(driver == null)

return new FireFoxDriver():(or other)

}

return driver;

}

Second approach is to put your driver object on a top class hierarchy of your PageObject model and share it with all your siblings through class hierarchy.

Sonia saini

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Aug 27, 2015, 9:59:12 AM8/27/15

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First try to print how many frames you have and then switch.

I was also facing same problem then below code resolved my issue. Try to change a bit.

List<WebElement> iframes = getWebDriver().findElements(By.tagName("iframe"));
LOGGER.info("Size of iframes" + iframes.size());

getWebDriver().switchTo().frame("ampJssdkIframe");

WebElement acceptButton = getWebDriver().findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='acceptButton']"));
String nameofButton = acceptButton.getText();
LOGGER.info("\n" + nameofButton);
LOGGER.info(acceptButton.isEnabled() + "\n" + acceptButton.getLocation() + "\n"
        + acceptButton.isDisplayed());
acceptButton.click();


getWebDriver().findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL + "t");
ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String>(getWebDriver().getWindowHandles());
getWebDriver().switchTo().window(tabs.get(0));

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Omair Javaid

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Aug 27, 2015, 10:07:11 AM8/27/15

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Yes thats right null pointer is gone but now locator is not being found ?

Secondly it is returning 1 Webelement with @FindBys() notation unfortunately i am not allowed to use X path as it is prohibited by my director so i have to do some thing with same

Vladyslav Lopatynskyi

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Aug 27, 2015, 4:39:19 PM8/27/15

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Change your locator directly in method cause you are not using your WebElement variable

driver.findElement(By.id("cke_1_contents")).sendKeys(slideTitle);

Omair Javaid

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Aug 28, 2015, 3:54:10 AM8/28/15

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Hi,

Firstly i would like to thank you for helping me out,

I am using my Web Element like below first time it worked now its gives me following error: please help its getting frustratednow

1. All i need to do is get the element of this i frame send keys and go on ....

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMWindowUtils.sendKeyEvent]

WebElement

@FindBys({@FindBy(id = "cke_1_contents"), @FindBy(tagName = "iframe")})

private WebElement slideTitleIFrame;

Action

public void setSlideTitle(String slideTitle, WebDriver driver){

driver.switchTo().frame(slideTitleIFrame);

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("document.body.innerHTML = '<br>'");

WebElement bodyOfMail = driver.switchTo().activeElement();

bodyOfMail.sendKeys("Your mail body content here");

driver.switchTo().defaultContent();

}

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