WebDriver - wait for element using Java

Question

I m looking for something similar to waitForElementPresent to check whether element is displayed before I click it  I thought this can be done by implicitWait  so I used the following   driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 5  TimeUnit SECONDS     and then click by  driver findElement By id prop getProperty vName    click      Unfortunately  sometimes it waits for the element and sometimes not  I looked for a while and found this solution    for  int second   0   second                  Thread sleep sleepTime               if  second  gt   10                  fail  timeout       vName               try                   if  driver findElement By id prop getProperty vName                             isDisplayed                        break                catch  Exception e                    writeToExcel  data xls   e toString                            parameters currentTestRow  46                                   driver findElement By id prop getProperty vName    click      And it waited all right  but before timing out it had to wait 10 times 5  50 seconds  A bit much  So I set the implicitly wait to 1sec and all seemed fine until now  Because now some things wait 10s before timeout but some other things time out after 1s   How do you cover the waiting for element present visible in your code  Any hint is appreciable

User · Answer

You can use Explicit wait or Fluent Wait

Example of Explicit Wait -

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(WebDriverRefrence,20);
WebElement aboutMe;
aboutMe= wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("about_me")));

Example of Fluent Wait -

Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<WebDriver>(driver)                            
.withTimeout(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS)          
.pollingEvery(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)          
.ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class);    

  WebElement aboutMe= wait.until(new Function<WebDriver, WebElement>() {       
public WebElement apply(WebDriver driver) { 
return driver.findElement(By.id("about_me"));     
 }  
});

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User · Answer

This is how I do it in my code   WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait webDriver  timeoutInSeconds   wait until ExpectedConditions visibilityOfElementLocated By id lt locator gt       or  wait until ExpectedConditions elementToBeClickable By id lt locator gt       to be precise   See also    org openqa selenium support ui ExpectedConditions for similar shortcuts for various wait scenarios  org openqa selenium support ui WebDriverWait for its various constructors

User · Answer

We re having a lot of race conditions with elementToBeClickable  See https   github com angular protractor issues 2313  Something along these lines worked reasonably well even if a little brute force  Awaitility await            atMost timeout           ignoreException NoSuchElementException class           ignoreExceptionsMatching              Matchers allOf                  Matchers instanceOf WebDriverException class                   Matchers hasProperty                       message                       Matchers containsString  is not clickable at point                                             until                 - gt                    this driver findElement locator  click                    return true                             Matchers is true

User · Answer

Above wait statement is a nice example of Explicit wait    As Explicit waits are intelligent waits that are confined to a particular web element as mentioned in above x-path     By Using explicit waits you are basically telling WebDriver at the max it is to wait for X units whatever you have given as timeoutInSeconds  of time before it gives up

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