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Silas Ray
Silas Ray

Reputation: 26150

Trigger page load blocking explicitly in Selenium Webdriver

I understand that the top level webdriver API doesn't provide access to the page load event handler, but is there any way (including sending a command directly to the server through the REST interface) to make a call directly to the selenium server to force the page load block behavior? I know about the wait for element hack, but I'd rather go straight to the source if at all possible. The specific problem I'm having is a page that makes a JS call when a button is clicked that displays a modal dialog on the page while some backend processes happen, then forwards the browser to a new page once the backend work is complete. Since the click action doesn't directly trigger the new page, selenium doesn't block on the event (and I wouldn't want it to in all cases anyway).

I've looked through the Command class for any promising looking commands, but didn't see anything. I found http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/JsonWireProtocol but it didn't help either...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1699

Answers (1)

VolkerK
VolkerK

Reputation: 1510

Thats a tricky one.

Accessing the http status in selenium/webdriver is not very handy. I would recommend a pragmatic way. IMO the wait for element approach is not a hack, its the proper way to do it. In your case I would wait for selenium.getLocation() or webdriver.getCurrentUrl() contains an expected value.

Something like this:

webDriverWait.until(new Function<WebDriver, WebElement>() {
    @Override
    public WebElement apply(WebDriver driver) {
        //TODO: pass expected url as parameter
        boolean expectedUrl = driver.getCurrentUrl().contains("your redirect url");
        if (expectedUrl) {
            //If not null is returned, we have found something and waitUntil stops
            return new RemoteWebElement();
        }
        //try again
        return null;
    }
});

Upvotes: 1

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