Comparing the options of list box in selenium

Question

Im unable to compare the list box options. I created the list box with options as tea, coffee, milk and softdrinks. I created a string array and stored these options in it. When I tried to compare same with the values retrieved from the selenium code (using select class) every time I get 'They are different'. Can any one please let me know what is the wrong I'm doing in the code?

package madhu;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

public class ComparingListValues {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","./driver/chromedriver.exe");

    String [] options = {"Tea","Coffee","Milk","SoftDrinks"};



    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.get("file:///C:/Users/mdevaraju/Desktop/Selenium%20HTML%20Pages/Listbox.html");
    WebElement listbox = driver.findElement(By.id("s2"));

    Select select = new Select (listbox);
     List<WebElement> allOptions = select.getOptions();

    for (int i=0; i<allOptions.size(); i++) 
    {
        WebElement address = allOptions.get(i);
         String text = address.getText();
         ArrayList <String> soptions = new ArrayList <String>();
         soptions.add(text);
         System.out.println(text);
            if (soptions.equals(options))
            {
                System.out.println("Both values are same");
            }
            else
            {
                System.out.println("They are different");
            }
    }

    driver.close();
  }

}

Output:

Tea 
They are different
Coffee 
They are different
Milk 
They are different
SoftDrinks 
They are different

Answer 1

You can compare the Listbox values with expected values by using following code :

import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

public class TestAbc {

      public static void main(String[] args) {


        String [] options = {"Taea","Coffee","Milk","SoftDrinks"};



        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
         driver.get("file:///C:/Users/mdevaraju/Desktop/Selenium%20HTML%20Pages/Listbox.html");
         WebElement listbox = driver.findElement(By.id("s2"));

        Select select = new Select (listbox);

        List<WebElement> allOptions = select.getOptions();

        for(int i=0 ;i<allOptions.size();i++)
        {
            if(allOptions.get(i).getText().equals(options[i]))
            {
                System.out.println("Values Matching : "+" List Value = "+allOptions.get(i).getText()+" And Expected Value = "+options[i]);
            }
            else
            {
                System.out.println("Value Mismatch : "+" List Value = "+allOptions.get(i).getText()+" And Expected Value = "+options[i]);
            }
        }

      }

    }

You only need to store all your Expected values in an array of String as you are doing. Then get all option from Listbox. Loop through all options and get one by one and compare with your expected values as mentioned in code. No need to use ArrayList and all those things to make code more complex.