Selenium and Netbeans. Copy string to clipboard, paste into browser possible?

[Simon]

Hi,

I am iterating through a list of webpage URLs.

On each iteration I visit a different webpage URL.

On each page visited I am trying to check if a word exists in the page title,and if it does I want to add a string to the clipboard, so that the user can manually paste  (CTRL+V) the string into the active Selenium browser window.

Code:

String pageTitle = driver.getTitle();

while(true)
{
        if(pageTitle.contains("ABC"))
        {
            System.out.println("The page title contains ABC, copying ABC text to clipboard");
            Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
            Transferable transferable = new StringSelection("ABC"));
            clipboard.setContents(transferable, null);

        }
        else if(pageTitle.contains("DEF"))
        {
            System.out.println("The page title contains DEF, copying DEF text to clipboard");
            Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
            Transferable transferable = new StringSelection((String) tmp.get("DEF");
            clipboard.setContents(transferable, null);
        }
        else
        {
            System.out.println("Neither ABC or DEF found in page title");
        }
}

When I run the Java program however after the first iteration/page visit the text isn't being copied into the clipboard, it is blank on iteration number 2+.

Can anyone advise me why the clipboard is blank on iteration 2+? Instead of it containing the assigned string?

Many thanks for any help!

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Simon,

Can you please help elaborate as to what do you mean by 

>>On each page visited I am trying to check if a word exists in the page title,and if it does I want to add a string to the clipboard, so that the user can manually paste  (CTRL+V) the string into the active Selenium browser window.

If this is a text box in the window, why can't you just make use of sendKeys() wherein you are sending the contents of a String variable, which contains whatever you need to be appending ? Wouldn't that be a lot more easier than take the ClipBoard route ?

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[guillaume.fo...@nexonia.com]

I think you can also use WebElement's sendKeys() to type a real CTRL+V by passing the SYNCHRONOUS IDLE character (Unicode 0016) in parameter, although I never tried it myself.

[guillaume.fo...@nexonia.com]

To add to my last post, using Keys.chord() is probably a cleaner way to do it.