Java equivalent to waitForElement???

[Lumbee]

Hey guys, I'm trying to get my tests to run more reliably, and am
trying to add more waits and detectors. I am using Java, and the only
options I have are waitForFrametoLoad and waitForCondition. Which
would you guys recommend for waiting for an element to load. Is
waitForFrametoLoad only for iFrames, or can I use it with any element.
I tried it with some xpaths without much luck. The documentation for
waitForCondition says it will run a "javascript snippet". Any
suggestions on what kind of javascript snippet I can insert here to
verify an element has loaded. Any feedback appreciated...thanx!

[Gergely]

Hi Mate.

Try my framework for web automated testing.

In the Utility class you will find a bunch of code that works on
problems like that.

Like : waitForAjaxRequestDone, waitForElementToAppear,
waitForAttributeToChange etc,etc.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/webauthfw/

You will find the source code under download.

And give us credit if you like it. :)

Cheers,
Gergely.

[Marcus Döring]

I wrote my own"helper"-Classes for this stuff.
Basically what I did was using .isElementPresent(xpath)
and .isVisible(xpath) pepped up with some Thread-sleep(milliSeconds)
and some exception handling.

This way you'll be able to easily modifie your "wait"-Methods and
you'll know what is going on when something does go wrong.
(not that using Gregely's framework would be a bad idea)

[Simon Stewart]

You could use the ConditionRunner[1], which ships as part of Selenium.
You can use it by doing something like:

ConditionRunner runner = new DefaultConditionRunner(selenium);
Condition condition = new Text("cheese");
runner.waitFor(condition);

If you're using Selenium WebDriver, from the 2.0 alphas, you can use
"Wait" interface:

Wait<WebDriver> wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 15);
ExpectedCondition<WebElement> condition =
new PresenceOfElement(By.id("foo"));
WebElement found = wait.until(condition);

Writing "PrescenceOfElement" is left as an exercise for the reader :)

Simon

[1] http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/java/com/thoughtworks/selenium/condition/ConditionRunner.html

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[Ross Patterson]

Our WaitForElementPresent() method uses WaitForCondition("selenium.isElementPresent(\"" + locator.Replace("\"", "\\\"") + "\");", timeout) - when it evaluates to true, WaitForCondition() returns. If it never does, WaitForCondition() throws a timeout exception. The Replace() call is to make any double-quotes in the locator survive the C#-to-JavaScript translation.

Ross

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[Lumbee]

...thanx for all the responses guys. Thanx Ross, your suggestion seems
to be the easiest to implement, and seems to have gotten me over the
hump!