The dropdown list is triggered by an input field. Once the dropdown list is shown, I wanted to select the item based on the index. When I am using PageFactory, (@FindBy) to identify the WebElement, there is always the NullPointerException error.
My question is, is there a (not complicated) way for me to use Select in PageFactory?
Add a simple wrapper accessor around the WebElement accessor, like this:
@FindBy(id="dropdown")
WebElement dropdownList;
public Select getSelectOptions() {
return new Select(dropdownList);
}
You can add helpful getter and setter methods too, like
public void setOption(int value)
{
getSelectOptions().selectByIndex(value);
}
public String getSelectedOption()
{
return getSelectOptions().getFirstSelectedOption().getText();
}
Using the following way we can use Select in Page Factory.
In order to handle items inside a dropdown , Your drop down object should be looks like this.
It should be a IList<IWebElement> type
[FindsBy(How = How.ClassName, Using = "<XXXX>")]
public IList<IWebElement> DropDown { get; set; }
After that using a for each loop go thru each and every item at the DropDown list.
Simply use the Select class of Selenium Webdriver.
Select select = new Select(driver);
select.selectByIndex(<index-of-element>);
