How to select from the dropdown list in PageFactory

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Simply use the Select class of Selenium Webdriver.

Select select = new Select(driver);
select.selectByIndex(<index-of-element>);