Use cases:

• Handle dynamic list – object id changes based on the number of rows.
• Better validation options for list of objects in one screen.
• Find elements where the relative XPath is different across devices.
• Getting dynamic data from screen.

Solution:

In selenium you can get list of objects with specific property and manipulate it in the code.

For example:

I would like to get the cars category list and number of car in each category.

How to do it:

• Find the common property:

In this example, all the items has the same class property : ui-link-inherit

• In the code use findElements command with XPath “contains” option with the specific property.

List<WebElement> objList  = webDriver.findElements(By.xpath(“(//div[@id=\”Content-\”])/ul/li/following::*[contains(@class,\”ui-link-inherit\”)]”));

•   Loop over the WebElemet list to work with the objects

The Xpath:

In this example I need to set an anchor to the list as part of my XPath because the page contains other object with the same class property which I want to exclude.

Part 1: The first part is setting the anchor for the elements I looking for:

//div[@id=\”Content-\”])/ul/li/following::

Part 2: the second part is getting all the objects with the calss ui-link-inherit

*[contains(@class,\”ui-link-inherit\”)

Code example:

https://github.com/perfectomobile/examples/blob/master/getObjList.java