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JeanPaul Galea
JeanPaul Galea

Reputation: 113

selenium chrome driver explicit wait is not working

I am using selenium 2 and a chrome driver and cannot seem to get the explicit wait to work no matter what I do. I am trying to click on an element which generates some data dynamically via ajax (no reloads) and then search for an element when it becomes present on the page.

This is my code

        leagueNameItem.Click();

        IList<IWebElement> outerTables_forEachLeague = new List<IWebElement>();

        var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
        outerTables_forEachLeague = wait.Until<IList<IWebElement>>((d) =>
        {
            return d.FindElements(By.ClassName("boxVerde"));
        });

The element is not found (and it is on the page for sure). The wait function does not actually 'wait' for the 10 seconds as specified ut just returns nothing. Any ideas pls?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3202

Answers (1)

JimEvans
JimEvans

Reputation: 27496

The problem is that FindElements returns immediately, and returns a valid empty list object if the elements aren't found. You have two choices. You can use a single FindElement in your wait, which throws an exception if the element doesn't exist. The WebDriverWait object will catch that exception and retry until the element can be found.

However, since you want to return a list from your wait, you'll need to be a little more clever, which leads to your second option. Change your wait to look something like this:

leagueNameItem.Click();

IList<IWebElement> outerTables_forEachLeague = new List<IWebElement>();

var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
outerTables_forEachLeague = wait.Until<IList<IWebElement>>((d) =>
{
    var elements = d.FindElements(By.ClassName("boxVerde"));
    if (elements.Count == 0)
    {
        return null;
    }

    return elements;
});

Upvotes: 10

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