I'm facing an issue when application I'm testing is opening a second level popup (I mean, a popup that rises another popup). I'm using Selenium for Java, version 2.42.2, with IE Driver.
My code currently manages all other flows and single pop ups windows, but when a second level popup appears my webdriver object gets irresponsive and just stuck in any method that try to get invoked. When this happens, I need to manually close the popup window and then driver method continues the execution of invoked method.
Maybe it worth mentioning, if I call the second popup from the main page (not from another popup) I am able to manage it without problems, so the problem seems to be related with the number of nested windows more than a specific problem for the page.
Take a look on below code:
String url = "/example.jsp"
int counter = 0;
boolean windowDetected = false;
// Waiting until page with given url gets detected
// It tries 10 times before it continues
while (counter++ < 10 && !windowDetected) {
waitForSeconds(1); // Just invokes Thread.sleep method,
System.out.println("before getting handlers, iteration " + counter + " of 10");
Set<String> handlers = driver.getWindowHandles();
System.out.println("after getting handlers, number of handlers: " + handlers.size());
for (String handler : handlers) {
try {
System.out.println("Moving to " + handler);
driver.switchTo().window(handler);
}
catch (NoSuchWindowException e) {
System.out.println("Window not found, it probably redirected to a different window");
break;
}
if (driver.getCurrentUrl().contains(url)) {
windowDetected = true;
waitForPageLoading(); // It just verify current page status to be completed
break;
}
}
}
I am able to position properly the driver in specific window with above code in other application pages, but when having the second level popup it just hangs on line Set handlers = driver.getWindowHandles(); that is the first method called on driver object after popup appeared. Similarly, if I had called another driver method like driver.getPageSource() the same would have happened in that method.
I am not able to change application structure (my scope is only for testing it), so doing changes in web application code is not an option for me now. I have read on different options like trying Robot class, but I think it will be difficult to implement with more complex pages and difficult to maintain.
Any idea of how can I solve this issue? Many thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Alberto.
