Using Selenium and XPath, converting a By element to a string

Question

I have a function that takes a By element, By by = By.xpath("xpathString"). Inside my method I am using the following statement to find another WebElement

findElement(by).findElements(By.xpath(anotherXPathString))

Does anyone know a way to manipulate the first by so I can combine them so I can use one findElement function? I have looked on the Selenium By class page and it has no way to convert a By to a String or to combine to different By elements. My goal is to have it look like

By newby = (however we will combine the two by statements);
findElements(newby);

or

String newXPath = (however we convert the by to a string) + anotherXPathString;
findElements(By.xpath(newXPath));

Msyk · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-29 02:35:53Z

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Do you know ByChained class?

You can summarize By chain by ByChained use.

see: javadoc (http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/support/pagefactory/ByChained.html)

Hope it helps.

answered Jun 29, 2012 at 2:35

Msyk

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