Page Object Pattern | Selenium - Part II

Note|  Text in Blue [#PYTHON] and Orange [#JAVA] can be edited or mentioned important for the entire blog. All the posts are practically done by me.

PageFactory is used to support PageObject pattern with a Factory class inside the WebDriver's support library. NullPointerExceptions will be thrown if you are not using PageFactory.

In PageFactory, by default you don't need to specify the Locator type for Name and ID;  Instead initialize the weblements using the below simple format.

private WebElement gbqfq; // here, 'gbqfq' is a name
private WebElement q; // here, 'q' is an id

gbqfq.sendKeys("Prashanth Sams");
or|
q.sendKeys("Prashanth Sams");


Lets see with an example,

Google TC | GoogleTest.java

package packagename;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.PageFactory;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterTest;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class GoogleTest {
private WebDriver driver; 

@BeforeTest
public void setUp() throws Exception {
 driver = new FirefoxDriver();  
}
    
 @Test
 public void Test01() throws Exception{
             GoogleSearch page = PageFactory.initElements(driver, GoogleSearch.class);
             page.searchFor("Prashanth Sams");
    }
 
@AfterTest
public void Teardown() throws Exception{
driver.quit();
}
} 

Google Search | GoogleSearch.java

package packagename;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

public class GoogleSearch {

    private WebElement q; // Here's the Element
    public WebDriver driver; 
    
    public GoogleSearch(WebDriver driver) {
this.driver = driver;
driver.get("http://www.google.com/");
}

    public void searchFor(String text) {        
        q.sendKeys(text);
        q.submit();
    }
} 

Working with Annotation | @FindBy

@FindBy and @FindBys lets you find elements using the locators. @FindBys plays a major role in finding elements.

Google Search | GoogleSearch.java

#USING @FindBy

package packagename;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.CacheLookup;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.FindBy;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.How;

public class GoogleSearch {

 @FindBy(how = How.NAME, using = "q") // or use @FindBy(name = "q")
 @CacheLookup // keeps the element in cache for rapid execution
 private WebElement searchme;

 @FindBy(id = "gbqfq") // Less Verbose
 private WebElement submitme;
//Here, both searchme & submitme refers to the same element
    
public WebDriver driver; 
    
  public GoogleSearch(WebDriver driver) {
this.driver = driver;
driver.get("http://www.google.com/");
}

   public void searchFor(String text) {        
    searchme.sendKeys(text);
    submitme.submit();
   }
} 

#USING @FindBys

package packagename;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.CacheLookup;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.FindBy;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.FindBys;

public class GoogleSearch {
   
    @FindBys({@FindBy(id = "gs_lc0"), @FindBy(name = "q")})
    @CacheLookup // keeps the element in cache for rapid execution
private WebElement searchme;

public WebDriver driver; 
    
    public GoogleSearch(WebDriver driver) {
this.driver = driver;
driver.get("http://www.google.com/");
}

    public void searchFor(String text) {        
    searchme.sendKeys(text);
    searchme.submit();    
    }
}