Failing to focus on parent window in webdriver

[Naroop]

Hi All, 

I am facing issues when handling parent an child windows with selenium webdriver, 

Able to switch over to child window and performed actions on child window. After performing operations in child window by clicking on "OK" button child window automatically closing. Here the problem occurring. Parent window not recognizing. 

If the new window closed automatically after clicking save button on new window then i am unable to shift webdriver focus to main window.

                                Set<String> windows = driver.getWindowHandles(); 

               String parent = null; 

               String child = null; 

               Iterator<String> it = windows.iterator(); 

               while(it.hasNext()) 

               { 

               parent = (String) it.next(); 

               child = (String) it.next(); 

               } 

               driver.switchTo().window(child); 

                                 

               driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='x-auto-32__x-auto-32_x-auto-137']/img[2]")).click();Thread.sleep(1000);

               driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='x-auto-32__x-auto-32_x-auto-141']/span[2]")).click();Thread.sleep(1000);

               driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.x-grid3-cell-inner.x-grid3-col-runStatus")).click();Thread.sleep(1000);

               driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='x-auto-36']")).click();Thread.sleep(1000);

               driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//button[@type='button'])[11]")).click();Thread.sleep(1000);

               

               driver.findElement(By.id("mainForm:addinterface")).click();  

                driver.close();  

               

                               // till this part working fine.          

               

                driver.switchTo().window(parent); // Here failing to focus on parent window and stopped to perform actions on parent window. 

                

               driver.findElement(By.id("mainForm:add")).click();

               

               TestLogger.info("Get URL"+ driver.getCurrentUrl());

               TestLogger.info("Get Window Title"+ driver.getWindowHandle());

               TestLogger.info("Get URL"+ driver.getPageSource());

                Can somebody help here to proceed ? 

Regards,

Naroop                

[PeterJeffreyGale]

There is no guarantee that the parent window is the first one in your list, as you logic assumes.

Iterate over the full list of window handles and assign the assign the window handles only if the window title matches what you expect it to be.

[Xiang Dong]

remove driver.close and have a try, I had a similar case, click a button child window will be closed, switch back to parent window has no problem. if it does not work, you can try delegate the click action to a javascript setitimeout method, give your test case an opportunity to switch back to parent window before child window get closed.

Best Regards,

--david

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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 07:36:54 -0700
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[Mukesh otwani]

Hi Naroop,

You should getparent window id first.. In your case it is null.Refer below code and let me know

http://learn-automation.com/handle-multiple-windows-in-selenium-webdriver/

[Naroop]

Hi All, 

Thanks for your responses. 

The issue solved by removing driver.close() as per David's suggestion. Since child window automatically closing after performing operations, then driver.close() is meaningless in my case. 

Thanks David. 

Regards,

Naroop.