How to automate a calender using selenium?

Question

I am in stuck using with calender automate I want to automate a calender using with selenium. I am following page object design pattern.

here is my code..

pageobject

 @FindBy(how=How.ID,using="booked_for")
        WebElement booked_for;
   public void setCalender(String strdate){
       // booked_for.clear();
        booked_for.sendKeys(strdate);
    }

pageobjectsteps

AppointmentPage appointmentPageobj= PageFactory.initElements(DriverManager.driver,AppointmentPage.class);
      appointmentPageobj.setCalender(strdate);

test

AppointmentPage ex=log.Valid("986444545","antony","[email protected]","Demo","2017-03-04","Dr.John");

Error :

org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException: invalid element state: Element must be user-editable in order to clear it.

Inspect code :

<input type="text" id="booked_for" value="2017-03-02" name="booked_for" readonly="" class="form-control type-num date-inp">

Couldn't automate the calender and clear() is get error

Answer 1

Try below code :

@FindBy(how=How.ID,using="booked_for")
WebElement booked_for;
public void setCalender(String strDate){
  //Code Here
  booked_for.clear();
  booked_for.sendKeys(strDate);
}

Here Need to know below things :

1. Please provide input. Here strDate is input.
2. Try to use proper ID,name , xpath, css etc.
3. Try to avoid override methods.

Alternative solution :

Click on date element. Get element of Date, Month and Year and select it. For this you need to create one method which can read date and select as per input.

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Solution of new edit of question :

org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException: invalid element state this exception says, Web page elements get change after some user events or more specific HTML element is getting change in their properties run time like class.

• So here I have two different ways to solve this error.

Kindly use as per requirements and feasibility with code :

1. Use element directly like below :

driver.findElement(By.id("booked_for")).sendKeys(strDate);

2. Initiate page object when your elements get changing :

AppointmentPage appointmentPageobj= PageFactory.initElements(DriverManager.driver,AppointmentPage.class);
 appointmentPageobj.booked_for.click();
AppointmentPage appointmentPageobj= PageFactory.initElements(DriverManager.driver,AppointmentPage.class);
 appointmentPageobj.setCalender(strdate);

Here first we click on calendar then get new page object repo and send our new date.

Let me know if any query.