Java Selenium Utilities that you can reuse 
Tags: java, selenium, testing
Published: 2019-08-16 00:04:07

--Selenium Helper classes
--SeleniumUtilities.java
```
package test.java.SeleniumUtilities;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class SeleniumUtilities {
    private WebDriver driver;

/**
 * Created by SreeLasya.Vallabhanenion.
 */ 
    
    public SeleniumUtilities(WebDriver driver) {
        this.driver = driver;
    }
    
    
    /**
     * Wait for an element to be displayed in the DOM
     *
     * @param elementLocator - CSS of the element
     * @return - WebElement
     */
    
    public WebElement waitForElement(String elementLocator) {
        WebElement webElement = null;
        int timeout = 20; //in seconds
        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeout);
        try {
        	System.out.println(elementLocator);
            webElement = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector(elementLocator)));
        } catch (WebDriverException e) {
            //do nothing, don't want to log this
        }

        if (webElement == null) {
            assertFalse(true, "WebElement not found within " + timeout + " seconds. Failing test!" + " of element: " + elementLocator + "\nCurrent page: " + driver.getCurrentUrl());
        }
        return webElement;
    }

    
    public WebElement waitForElementPrescence(String elementLocator) {
        WebElement webElement = null;
        int timeout = 10; //in seconds
        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeout);
        try {
        	System.out.println(elementLocator);
        	webElement  = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector(elementLocator)));
            
        } catch (WebDriverException e) {
            //do nothing, don't want to log this
        }

        //if element wasn't found -> fail test
        if (webElement == null) {
            assertFalse(true, "WebElement not found within " + timeout + " seconds. Failing test!" + " of element: " + elementLocator + "\nCurrent page: " + driver.getCurrentUrl());
        }
        return webElement;
    }
    
    public void postUrl(String elementLocatorUrl) {
        try{
            driver.get(elementLocatorUrl);
        } catch (WebDriverException e) {
            System.out.println("Cannot get the requested url" + elementLocatorUrl);
        }
    }

    public void click(String elementLocator) {

        WebElement webElement = waitForElement(elementLocator);
        try {
        webElement.click();
        } catch(Exception ex) {
        	
        }
    }

    public void enterText(String elementLocator, String text) {
    	System.out.println(text);
    	System.out.println(elementLocator);
        WebElement webElement = waitForElement(elementLocator);
        webElement.clear();
        webElement.sendKeys(text);
    }
    
    /**
     * Method to wait for page to update following an action that changes the pages state.
     * This is needed to avoid any race conditions between page updates and Selenium, which can sometimes occur.
     */

    public void waitForPageLoad() {
        try {
            Thread.sleep(250);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    
    public void refreshPage() {

        String currentURL = getCurrentURL();
        driver.navigate().to(currentURL);
    }

    public String getCurrentURL() {
        return driver.getCurrentUrl();
    }
    
    public String getElementText(String elementLocator) {
    	
        WebElement webElement = waitForElement(elementLocator);
        return webElement.getText();
    }
}
```