Not able to get the text from the drop down

[sandy]

I am trying to get the Xpath of the drop down menu as iam doing a menu comparison.

But getting a error:

 [object Text]. It should be an element.

Below is my Xpath:

WebElement submenuitem = menuLink.findElement(By.xpath("//button//text()"));

Had Also tried with the below Xpath:

List<WebElement> list = menuLink.findElements(By.xpath("//div[contains(@class,'mat-list-item-content')]"));
                           
                    String element = list.get(0).getAttribute("innerText");

but this fetches only the first text from the drop down ..
Dropdown menu has :

Vessel Database
Partner Database
User Management
Export to Excel

So i need to read these dropdown menus ... Iam doing a menu bar comparison so cannot hard cord the text ...Any Leads will be helpful

HTML:

<div _ngcontent-bhg-c40="" class="ng-star-inserted"><mat-icon _ngcontent-bhg-c40="" role="img" aria-hidden="false" aria-label="dropdown" class="mat-icon notranslate dropdown-icon material-icons mat-icon-no-color" data-mat-icon-type="font">expand_more</mat-icon><mat-list _ngcontent-bhg-c40="" class="mat-list mat-list-base dropdown-list"><button _ngcontent-bhg-c40="" mat-list-item="" class="mat-list-item mat-focus-indicator dropdown-button ng-star-inserted" type="button"><div class="mat-list-item-content"><div mat-ripple="" class="mat-ripple mat-list-item-ripple"></div><div class="mat-list-text"></div>**Vessel Database**</div></button><button _ngcontent-bhg-c40="" mat-list-item="" class="mat-list-item mat-focus-indicator dropdown-button ng-star-inserted" type="button"><div class="mat-list-item-content"><div mat-ripple="" class="mat-ripple mat-list-item-ripple"></div><div class="mat-list-text"></div>**Partner Database**</div></button><button _ngcontent-bhg-c40="" mat-list-item="" class="mat-list-item mat-focus-indicator dropdown-button ng-star-inserted" type="button"><div class="mat-list-item-content"><div mat-ripple="" class="mat-ripple mat-list-item-ripple"></div><div class="mat-list-text"></div>**User Management**</div></button><button _ngcontent-bhg-c40="" mat-list-item="" class="mat-list-item mat-focus-indicator dropdown-button ng-star-inserted" type="button"><div class="mat-list-item-content"><div mat-ripple="" class="mat-ripple mat-list-item-ripple"></div><div class="mat-list-text"></div>**Export Excel**</div></button><!----></mat-list></div>

[SuperKevy]

Consider a for loop where you get the len() or element count of the array returned to List.   

see example at 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47038152/how-to-get-the-length-of-the-li-elements-in-an-ol-with-selenium-in-python?msclkid=25bbc4dad08d11eca5da114ae11d8d5c

[SuperKevy]

Java uses .size()   
Ruby/Python are len() 

[sandy]

Its Java did add for loop but it is not working 

[Veena]

Check the list size before your loop.

[SuperKevy]

I don't normally work with bloated Java.

Here's a guide: https://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-loop-arraylist-in-java-code.html#axzz7SzOiIBRA

This is probably the easiest of the examples:

 

for(int i=0; i<list.size(); i++){
            System.out.println(list.get(i).getAttribute("innerText"););

        }

Print out the list.size() it should show (4).  If its not then you have the wrong element in your xpath: of menuLink.findElements(By.xpath...............

it could be your looking for the innerText of the button collection within the dropdown container code.     You'll figure it out!