When designing my web application, I adhere to the Page object model by utilizing a Base class that contains all common and reusable methods, as well as separate pages for each page of the application.
Currently, I am faced with the task of creating a method in the BasePage that can be utilized in other pages. In each page, I have employed page factory to handle the elements.
One particular challenge I am encountering involves extracting locators into the method below so that it can be used across multiple pages with different element locators:
BasePage method:
protected boolean CheckSorting(List<WebElement> element) {
List<WebElement> issueTypeDropdown = new LinkedList<>(driver.findElements(By.)); // struggling here
LinkedList<String> issueTypes = new LinkedList<String>();
for (int i = 0; i < issueTypeDropdown.size(); i++) {
// System.out.println(issueTypeDropdown.get(i).getText());
issueTypes.add(issueTypeDropdown.get(i).getText());
}
return Compare(issueTypes);
}
I am facing difficulty with this line of code:
List<WebElement> issueTypeDropdown = new LinkedList<>(driver.findElements(By.)); // stuck here
The PageFactory setup in the pages where I implement it is as follows:
public @FindBy(xpath = "(//INPUT[@type='search'])[4]/following-sibling::UL") List<WebElement> List;