How to navigate a map with Selenium via clicking and dragging

[airick]

I am using Selenium and Java to try and automate some google maps navigation. I want to click and hold on the map, then move to a certain direction, then release the cursor. This should move the map across the page.

So far I have

WebElement canvasElement = driver.findElement(map); 
Actions builder = new Actions(driver.getWebDriver()); 
builder.moveToElement(canvasElement).clickAndHold().moveByOffset(300, 0).release().perform();

However, nothing on the page moves. I know I am selecting the map correctly since if I just do

builder.moveToElement(canvasElement).clickAndHold().moveByOffset(300, 0).perform();

then when I mouse over the map, the map moves without me having to click the left mouse button because it is still in the click and hold state and never released. Not sure why the moveByOffset is not working for this particular case. Any suggestions would be great

[Joe Ward]

May I ask why you are trying to do that? 

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[airick]

To test a web page with a map

On Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 1:07:10 PM UTC-8, That Guy wrote:

May I ask why you are trying to do that? 

On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 20:36, airick <ericl...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am using Selenium and Java to try and automate some google maps navigation. I want to click and hold on the map, then move to a certain direction, then release the cursor. This should move the map across the page.

So far I have

WebElement canvasElement = driver.findElement(map); 
Actions builder = new Actions(driver.getWebDriver()); 
builder.moveToElement(canvasElement).clickAndHold().moveByOffset(300, 0).release().perform();

However, nothing on the page moves. I know I am selecting the map correctly since if I just do

builder.moveToElement(canvasElement).clickAndHold().moveByOffset(300, 0).perform();

then when I mouse over the map, the map moves without me having to click the left mouse button because it is still in the click and hold state and never released. Not sure why the moveByOffset is not working for this particular case. Any suggestions would be great

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[Joe Ward]

I think you can be pretty confident Google maps works. I’ve seen people try and fail at this but you may want to consider if it’s even necessary for you to do. 

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[airick]

I've been looking around to no avail. Don't know why this simple action is so seemingly complicated but yes it is necessary for this testing effort (not testing google maps functionality but some software functionality laid over it).