Handling alerts in Selenium

Question

I have a scenario in which clicking on "Save" button can give three different alerts based on the data entered. It can give "Saved successfully", "User already registered" and "Username already exist" alerts. I have tried:

driver.findElement(By.id("dnn_ctr5995_View_btnsavesession")).click();
    Thread.sleep(10000);
Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
    String A = alert.getText();
    if (A == "Username already exist"){
        System.out.println("Admission number already exist.");
        alert.accept();
    } else if (A == "User already registered"){
        System.out.println("User already registered");
        alert.accept();
    } else if (A == "Saved Successfully."){
        System.out.println("Saved Successfully.");
        alert.accept();
    }

But it is showing No Alert present exception. I have tried increasing the sleep time but still it shows the same exception.

ajax pop up alerts and browser controlled alerts are used in this application — Dinu, Jul 21 '14 at 09:41
@Dinu: Can you share the HTML for the Save button and the JavaScript method if it's calling anything behind the scenes? — Sitam Jana, Jul 21 '14 at 09:53
The id posted in the code and in the html tag are different? Is this cause of the problem? — Uday, Jul 21 '14 at 10:58
Look at this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12639280/how-to-wait-for-an-alert-in-selenium-webdriver — Vignesh Paramasivam, Jul 22 '14 at 06:20
@Vignesh as I have already mentioned in the question, I have tried increasing wait time but still it is giving the same error. — Dinu, Jul 22 '14 at 07:53
@Dinu check wether you're pointing the alert correctly. else you try window handling, since we dont know what type of alert it is — Vignesh Paramasivam, Jul 22 '14 at 08:34
Is there any reason why you are using `==` instead of `.equalsIgnoreCase()`? With `==` operator this code should not work. — EpicPandaForce, Jul 22 '14 at 09:43

Johnny · Answer 1 · 2014-07-21T15:36:02.137

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Looks like your clicking is not actually clicking because the 'save' id is no like in the element. Try to do it like this:

    driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("[id*=save"])).click();

And then trying to catch the alert. Please note the '*' in selector.

edited Jul 21 '14 at 15:36

answered Jul 21 '14 at 13:19

Johnny

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this is an incorrect CSS selector `:)` It needs to be wrapped in `[]` if you are trying to identify an attribute. e.g.: `[id*='save']` – ddavison Jul 21 '14 at 15:20
sure, sorry for the typo. fixing the mistake :) – Johnny Jul 21 '14 at 15:35
I have used the same id as mentioned in the HTML tag but still it is showing the same error. – Dinu Jul 22 '14 at 04:55
Can you please elaborate in what phase you experience the error - is the clicking working and you just can catch the alert or the clicking is not working to? – Johnny Jul 22 '14 at 09:08

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '14 at 13:31

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As per the Html shared, the id of the element is not "save". So the first line of the shared code should be modified a bit to achieve the output.

Change the element identification tag to :

driver.findElement(By.id("dnn_ctr5995_View_btnsavesession")).click();

or if the 'id' of the element is changing on every instance, then it can be changed to:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(@id,'_View_btnsavesession')]")).click();

answered Jul 21 '14 at 13:31

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I have used the same id as mentioned in the HTML tag but still it is showing the same error. – Dinu Jul 22 '14 at 04:56

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 22 '14 at 09:44

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I'm guessing you never actually call alert.accept() because you're using A == "User already registered" instead of "User already registered".equalsIgnoreCase(A). If you change the if conditions, that should fix your problem.

answered Jul 22 '14 at 09:44

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