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Riaz Ladhani
Riaz Ladhani

Reputation: 4062

Selenium Python Check if dropdown is selected with the expected value. I am getting False

I have a method to check if the drop down field has the selected value. The value selected in the drop down in the GUI is "PAF".
I am using first_selected_option from the Select class which should check the selected value from the drop down field. I use an If Then Else to check if the value from the drop down matches the expected value of "PAF" I am getting False instead of True.

Here is my Selenium Webdriver Python code snippet:

def is_dropdown_selected_from_advanced_cleaning_output_tab(self, field):
    selected_dropdown_option = Select(self.get_element(*MainPageLocators.mappings_paf_output_dropdown)).first_selected_option
    print (str(selected_dropdown_option))
    if (str(selected_dropdown_option)) == field:
        return True
    else:
        return False

from my TestCase class the call to the method:

self.assertTrue(mappings.is_dropdown_selected_from_advanced_cleaning_output_tab("PAF"))

In the GUI PAF is selected in the drop down. Why is it returning false? What is wrong with my code?

I think I am not getting the string value correctly into the variable selected_dropdown_option I tried (str(selected_dropdown_option)) Is this not the correct way to get the string value?

Thanks, Riaz

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1680

Answers (1)

patricmj
patricmj

Reputation: 373

I haven`t tested this, but try this. It looks like you try to cast your webelement to a string, you should get the text. e.g : selected_dropdown_option.text

def is_dropdown_selected_from_advanced_cleaning_output_tab(self, field):      
    selected_dropdown_option = Select(self.get_element(*MainPageLocators.mappings_paf_output_dropdown))
    selected_dropdown_option.select_by_visible_text(field)
    selected_text = selected_dropdown_option.text
    if(selected_text == field):
        return True
    else:
        return False

Upvotes: 0

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