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Anton
Anton

Reputation: 920

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated()) with @FindBy?

Why does this work?

public void mymethod(){
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(by.id("myid"));
}

And this doesn't work? I don't understand.

@FindBy (id="myid")
WebElement myid;

public mypagefactory(WebDriver driver){
    this.driver = driver;
    PageFactory.initElements(driver);
}

public void mymethod(){
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated((By) myid));
}

I keep getting an "invalid cast" error on the "(By)". I'm trying to use the page factory methodology.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3118

Answers (4)

Jason C
Jason C

Reputation: 1

My solution when I ran into needing the By locator to use for an ExpectedConditions and I had my locators in the Page Object Factory was to use a String that had the locator in it and then build my By object and the element locator from that.

public class PageObject(){
    private static final String ID = "myid";

    public @FindBy (id=ID)
    WebElement myid;

    public By getByID(){
        return new By.ById(ID);
    }

    public PageObject(WebDriver driver){
        this.driver = driver;
        PageFactory.initElements(driver);
    }
}

public void mymethod(){
    By by = getByID();
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(by);
}

Upvotes: 0

Florent B.
Florent B.

Reputation: 42528

The condition invisibilityOfElementLocated is expecting a locator of type By, but you are providing the proxied WebElement. Use invisibilityOfAllElements instead:

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfAllElements(Arrays.asList(myid)));

Upvotes: 1

timbre timbre
timbre timbre

Reputation: 13980

The statement 

@FindBy (id="myid")
WebElement myid;

is an equivalent of

By by = By.id("myid");
WebElement myid = driver.findElement(by);

As you see myid is of type WebElement in both cases (annotation does not convert it into object of type By), while casting from WebElement to By is not possible, since they are not sharing the same class hierarchy.

Upvotes: 1

Taylan Derinbay
Taylan Derinbay

Reputation: 148

You are trying to cast a WebElement to By, but it's not a By element, it's WebElement.

by.id("myid") returns By, so there's no problem.

Upvotes: 1

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