WebDriver + TestNG Gmail a strange error

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  •  19-10-2022
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Question

I tried to automate sending email from Gmail and worked with TestNG and Page Object pattern, browser FireFox, but first a part of code =)

I'm looking at locators with help annotation (Page Object pattern), and then goes to a function which I use in my test. 

@FindBy (how=How.XPATH, using = "//div[@class='T-I J-J5-Ji T-I-KE L3']")
public WebElement writeMail;

@FindBy (how=How.XPATH, using = "//textarea[@class='vO']")
public WebElement adressTo;

@FindBy (how=How.XPATH, using = "//input[@class='aoT']")
public WebElement subjectOfMail;

@FindBy (how=How.XPATH, using = "//body[@role='textbox']")
public WebElement contentMail;

@FindBy (how=How.XPATH, using = "//div[@class='T-I J-J5-Ji aoO T-I-atl L3']")
public WebElement sendMail;

public void writeMail(String adress, String subject) {
    writeMail.click();
    adressTo.sendKeys(adress);
    subjectOfMail.sendKeys(subject);
    webDriver.switchTo().frame(webDriver.findElement(
            By.xpath("//iframe[contains(@tabindex,'1') and contains(@frameborder,'0')]"))); 
    webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//body[@role='textbox']")).sendKeys("Test");
    webDriver.switchTo().defaultContent();
    sendMail.click();
}

allegedly has to work, but the record goes only in address and topic fields, and after that test is failed and in log:

" Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//body[@role='textbox']"}"

But if I comment

//adressTo.sendKeys(adress);
//subjectOfMail.sendKeys(subject);

webdriver switches to iframe as planned and writes text in letter body and clicks a button "Send".

Please explain to me, why this code works fine as a simple java app, but not works correctly in when I use it in my test (TestNG) in my example?

No correct solution

OTHER TIPS

Well, the solution of problem was found here How to type Gmail Body text in Selenium2 (Webdriver) using Java, but I wonder why did the old hpath worked so weird. Everyone thanks for your attention.

You're searching for a <body> element with @role='textbox':

//body[@role='textbox']

but the element you're looking for actually is a <div> container:

<div id=":c9" class="Am Al editable LW-avf" hidefocus="true" aria-label="Inhalt der Nachricht" g_editable="true" role="textbox" contenteditable="true" tabindex="1" style="direction: ltr; min-height: 416px;"><br></div>

So use following XPath instead:

//div[@role='textbox']
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