Unable to get Selenium Web Driver running with Java

Question

I tried running the following code to start running Selenium WebDriver on Java, using the following code

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.*;
public class Runner 
{

    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {

        WebDriver driver;
        driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
        driver.get("http://www.google.co.in");
        try
        {/// Exception thrown on initElements

            GoogleSearchPage page1 = PageFactory.initElements(driver, GoogleSearchPage.class);


            page1.SearchFor("hu ha 123");
        }
        catch(Exception excp)
        {
            System.out.println(excp.toString());
        }
        driver.quit();
    }

}

class GoogleSearchPage
{
    @FindBy(how = How.NAME, using = "q")
    public WebElement searchbox;

    public void SearchFor(String Text)
    {
        searchbox.sendKeys(Text);
        searchbox.submit();
    }
}

I get the exception java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class org.openqa.selenium.support.PageFactory can not access a member of class moronicpackage.GoogleSearchPage with modifiers ""

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I was calling PageFactory.initElements incorrectly. The second argument needed to be a GoogleSearchPage instance rather than the GoogleSearchPage class object. The main method needed to look like this:

    public static void main(String[] args) 
{
    WebDriver driver;
    driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
    driver.get("http://www.google.co.in");
    try
    {
        GoogleSearchPage page1 = new GoogleSearchPage();
        PageFactory.initElements(driver, page1);        
        page1.SearchFor("hu ha 123");
    }
    catch(Exception excp)
    {
        System.out.println(excp.toString());
    }

    driver.quit();
}

Answer 2

There is nothing wrong with documentation. Need to specify page object classes as public classes.So moving GoogleSearchPage to different file and specifying it as public class should work fine. the way suggested here is also correct but is just an alternative.

Answer 3

Try making your GoogleSearchPage class public. Instead of this:

class GoogleSearchPage

do this:

public class GoogleSearchPage

Answer 4

public class Create_User {
    WebDriver driver;

    DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
    capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);
    driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(capabilities); 
    driver.get(getProperty("www.google.co.in"));
}