Ok so i have been working on a program that can acces twitter via html unit/selenium drivers in java. This is part of a larger program i am trying to build. Regardless, I have succeced in getting the program to login to twitter with my account, and even getting it to search for other accounts but when i try to tweet, i get an error message like this:
"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: You may only set the value of elements that are input elements
at org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitKeyboard.sendKeys(HtmlUnitKeyboard.java:82)
at org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitWebElement.sendKeys(HtmlUnitWebElement.java:343)
at javaapplication4.JavaApplication4.main(JavaApplication4.java:41)
Java Result: 1"
Im not sure what the issue is. Here is my code:
WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.get("https://twitter.com/login");
System.out.println(driver.getCurrentUrl());
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("session[username_or_email]"));
element.sendKeys("A*****K*****");
WebElement pass = driver.findElement(By.name("session[password]"));
pass.sendKeys("*******");
pass.sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);
System.out.println(driver.getCurrentUrl());
WebElement tweet = driver.findElement(By.id("tweet-box-mini-home-profile"));
tweet.click();
WebElement tweet2 = driver.findElement(By.id("tweet-box-global-label"));
tweet2.sendKeys("A");
WebElement send = driver.findElement(By.className("btn primary-btn tweet-action tweet-btn js-tweet-btn"));
send.click();
driver.close();
There seem to be two different elements with name = session[username_or_email]. By default, Selenium receives the first one it finds from markup. That one is hidden, so it would make more sense if you received an error "Element is not visible and hence cannot be interracted with". Anyway, try to be more spefic when defining your locator, ie:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//form[#class=\"t1-form clearfix signin js-signin\"]//input[#name=\"session[username_or_email]\"]"));
EDIT:
Sorry, I did not read the question all that well. Anyway, why are you sending your text to:
WebElement tweet2 = driver.findElement(By.id("tweet-box-global-label"));
that seems to correspond to:
<span id="tweet-box-global-label" class="visuallyhidden">Tweet text</span>
From what I see from Twitter, you should send your text to the first element:
WebElement tweet = driver.findElement(By.id("tweet-box-mini-home-profile"));
Anyway, seems like Javascript is doing something there onClick, so you probably need to look up this element again before sending text to it, otherwise you might see a StaleElementException there.
Related
Element HTML:
Inbox
What I tried:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[text='Log out']"));
then
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[.='Log out']"));
Element snapshot:
HTML
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Log out"));
Something like that should work, you should provide the page html for a better response.
My response is based on the fact that in your first try you are saying text='Log out'.
findElement in selenium works with locatorStrategies (By.cssSelector/By.linkText...) the one that i used (linkText) search in all the anchor tags that are found in the pages () and analyze the text inside the tag, if the text is matched the driver will find the element.
Let me know if it works, otherwise provide me the web page html snippet.
I've seen the actual screen, you must change Log out with Inbox
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Inbox"));
Given the HTML:
Inbox
You need to take care of a couple of things here as follows:
Within cssSelector doesn't supports the :contains("text") method
Within xpath for exact text matches you need to use text()
Solution
To identify the element you can use either of the following locator strategies:
Using linkText:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.linkText("Log out"));
Using cssSelector:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[href$='INBOX'][title='View the Inbox']"));
Using xpath:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()='Inbox' and #title='View the Inbox']"));
I am quite new on Selenium (started today) and I would like to get the WebElement corresponding to the following html Input:
<input size="25" style="text-align:center;" value="http" onclick="this.select();" type="text"></input>
And then obtain its value. This is what I have tried so far:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".text-align:center"));
String text = element.getText();
Or this:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[style='text-align:center']"));
But Java returns in both cases an exception:
org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: The given selector
.text-align:center is either invalid or does not result in a
WebElement
Thank you,
Héctor
Do you have to search for the element by cssSelector?
You could give this a try:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[type='text']"));
If cssSelector is not necessary you could try grabbing the element by xpath.
If you use firefox, there is a plugin called FireBug which allows you to right click after inspecting the element and copying the xpath directly then using :
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("XPATH HERE"));
EDIT: Part of post disappeared, redded it.
Your first try is slightly off
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".text-align:center"));
The (.) in a CSS selector indicates a CSS class name but that's a style on the element and not a class. There is no class on that element to use in that way.
Your second try looks good but maybe it's not unique on the page? Hard to tell with only the one line of HTML. You'd have to provide more of the HTML of the page. Try it again but get the value instead of text.
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[style='text-align:center']"));
System.out.println(element.getAttribute("value"));
Does that work? You likely will have to provide some unique HTML that surrounds the INPUT that we can use to make the CSS selector more specific.
I am trying to write some UI test cases for an SAP-webUI (web based) application. After login, it shows the dashboard ( Workcenter's ) screen.
Now the problem is, I am able to open the page, enter U/N, Pwd and login through Selenium. After i press the "Login" button the URL changes and the page got redirected/refreshed.
E.g. URL before login : https://a/b/c/d/e/f/g.htm?sap-client=001&sap-sessioncmd=open
E.g. URL after successful Login : https://a/b(bDsdfsdsf1lg==)/c/d/e/f/g.htm
After this im unable to perform any action or press any link in any part of the page. I tried with all the possible attributes ( css, xpath, id ). Webdriver was unable to find any element on the page. It shows the error "No element found" alone.
I am using java with Selenium Web Driver.
Please find the html structure of the webpage below
<html><body><div><div><iframe>#document<html><head></head><frameset><frameset><frame>#document<html><head></head><body><form><div><div><table><tbody><tr><td><div><ul><li><a id=abcdef></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></form></body></html></frame></frameset></frameset></html></iframe></div></div></body></html>
Actually i want to click a linkmenu "abcd", which is inside iframe and frame as shown in the below HTML code
<html><head></head><body><iframe name=a1><html><head></head><frameset><frameset name=fs1><frame name=f1><html><head></head><body><table><tbody><tr><td><ul><li><a id=abcdef>
I tried the below code as well.
driver.switchTo().frame("a1");
driver.findElement(By.id("abcd")).click();
OR
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='abcd']")).click();
After using the above code, still im getting the error "No such element"
Kindly suggest
Regards,
Siva
Do it this way...
driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//iframe[#name='a1']"))); // switching to iframe
followed by
driver.switchTo().frame("f1"); // switch to frame
and then your desired action...
driver.findElement(By.id("abcd")).click();
This is because of the iframe. You need to switch to it first:
driver.switchTo().frame(0);
driver.findElement(By.id("abcdef")).click();
where 0 is a frame index.
See doc on implicit wait here
I guess you should do a implicit wait until your chosen element is available
modify these code to suit your chosen element:
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("someid")));
I am trying to select a value(Bellevue) from a li(it looks like a dropdown but it isn't).The problem is that its id changes everytime the page loads.
Here is a screenshot:
This time the id is: ui-id-23,but the number,23,will be changed next time so this will not work.If I expand the <a id="ui-id-23..." I get the name 'Bellevue' but every character surrounded by < strong > < /strong > mark-up.
I can't find it after it's classname because both values from li have the same class,ui-menu-item.
I tried after xpath:"//a[contains(text(),'Bellevue')]" but I get the error:Unable to locate element...
Do you know any solution for this?I am using Selenium Webdriver in Java and TestNG.
Thanks!
Update
So I managed to find that element by using:
WebElement value = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("a[id^='ui-id-']")).get(3);
value.click(); .
but in my application i am using page objects and i look after elements using #FindBy(how.HOW.....).Do you know how I can use .get(3) with #FindBy?
You want to use a CSS selector on the ID:
a[id^='ui-id-']
This says "Find all of the a elements that have an ID that start with ui-id-"
If you want to find the second item, then do:
driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("a[id^='ui-id-']"))[1]
The [1] will select the second item on the page.
It looks like jQuery uniquId() method is used to populated the id, so it will always start with ui-id-. You can use jQuery selector to select element whose id starts with ui-id-
WebElement webElement = (WebElement) ((JavascriptExecutor) webDriver).executeScript("return $( 'input[id^="ui-id-"]').get(0);");
I would try to use xpath avoiding using of id. For example, //a[#class=''ui-corner-all ui-state-focus ][2]
First get the tag name in which your id attribute has been defined.
WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.tagName(tagName));
String strId = ele.getAttribute("id").startsWith("ui-id-");
driver.findElement(By.id(strId)).click();
I'm trying to use Selenium (Java) to automate some searches.
When I go to the page and click Inspect Element on the search bar, I see that it has the id searchBox and name q, both of which are potentially useful. Nevertheless, these properties are nowhere to be found in the HTML when I go to View Source.
When I try to use
WebElement search = driver.findElement(By.id("searchBox"));
or
WebElement search = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
both come back as unable to be found.
How do I proceed with populating the search field then hitting submit (the submit button also is missing in the source page) if I can't find either of these elements?
EDIT:
As requested, here's a more detailed picture of what's wrong:
The URL of the page accessed by WebDriver is http://www.ycharts.com using the line
driver.get("http://www.ycharts.com/login");
If you go to this page with your actual web browser, right click on the search bar and choose Inspect Element, you'll see that its ID is "searchBox" and its name is "q". However, if you go to view the same page's source, you'll see that there's no such element in the HTML. Clearly, this is why WebDriver can't find it.
driver was initiated as follows:
WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();
When I try something like
WebElement search = driver.findElement(By.id("searchBox"));`
The exception returned is:
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element with ID: searchBox
So, back to the original question: clearly, the element is there, but it's not in the HTML – how do you interact with it?
The problem is being caused by the fact that the search box is added to the html post page load by javascript.
The HTML returned by http://ycharts.com/ does not contain the searchbox, therefore when Selenium thinks the page has finished loading (i.e DOM ready state), there is no search box.
In order to interact with the search box, you need to tell Selenium to wait until the box appears in the DOM.
The easiest way to achieve this is with WebDriverWait;
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, timeoutInSeconds);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id<locator>));