Trying to migrate from Selenium where I had a method like so in a
 PageObject:
         public void clickContent(String something) {
                 StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                 sb.append("//a[contains(@href, '/");
                 sb.append(something);
                 sb.append("')]");
                 String link = sb.toString();
                 clickAndWait(link);
         }
 
That worked like a charm but I am struggling with how to do this in
 WebDriver with a PageFactory created PageObject. I am thinking it
 needs to be something like so but I don't know how to get "something"
 in the annotation:
 
        @FindBy(how = How.XPATH, using = "//a[contains(@href, '/
 something')]")
         private WebElement contentLink;
 
Is what I am trying to do here possible or is there a better way?
 Basically I am trying to construct the xpath for the element with a
 variable.

Ahh, that sort of makes sense. Should I implement the
 ElementLocatorFactory
 interface and create my custom locator that way? A little confused on
 that approach as I would need a prefix, variable, and suffix to create
 the xpath.
 Thanks!
 
On Nov 18, 9:09 am, Simon Stewart <simon.m.stew...@gmail.com> wrote:
 

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Sorry, still struggling a bit here. The example you gave above is
 giving me a "bound mismatch error":
 Bound mismatch: The generic method getAnnotation(Class<T>) of type
 AnnotatedElement is not applicable for the arguments
 (Class<ConstructedFindBy>). The inferred type ConstructedFindBy is not
 a valid substitute for the bounded parameter <T extends Annotation>
 ConstructedElementLocator.java  line 25
 
I am naming mine ConstructedFindBy by the way. Do I also need to
 create the ConstructedFindBy class?
 
Thanks for your help!
 
On Nov 19, 7:31 am, Simon Stewart <simon.m.stew...@gmail.com> wrote:
 

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Think I have this now, I needed to create the ConstructedFindBy as an
 @interface similiar to the FindBy. Don't have it fully working yet,
 but at least the compiler stopped complaining!
 Thanks!
 
On Nov 24, 4:00 am, Simon Stewart <simon.m.stew...@gmail.com> wrote:
 

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Haven't had time to go back to this so it is not fully working. What I
 came up with so far, which may be wrong:
 @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
 @Target(ElementType.FIELD)
 public @interface ConstructedFindBy {
     How how() default How.ID;
     String using();
 

}
 

Now the class:
 public class ConstructedElementLocator implements ElementLocator {
         private final WebDriver driver;
         private final By by;
         private final boolean shouldCache;
         private WebElement cachedElement;
 
        public ConstructedElementLocator(WebDriver driver, Field field) {
                 this.driver = driver;
                 Annotations annotations = new Annotations(field);
                 shouldCache = annotations.isLookupCached();
 
                ConstructedFindBy findBy =
 field.getAnnotation(ConstructedFindBy.class);
                 if (findBy != null) {
                         by = deriveFrom(findBy);
                 } else {
                         by = annotations.buildBy();
                 }
         }
 
        protected By deriveFrom(ConstructedFindBy annotation) {
                 // Need stuff here
         }
 
        public WebElement findElement() {
                 if (cachedElement != null && shouldCache) {
                         return cachedElement;
                 }
 
                WebElement element = driver.findElement(by);
 
                if (shouldCache) {
                         cachedElement = element;
                 }
 
                return element;
         }
 

}
 

Anyone else want to take a crack at it?
 On Jan 19, 6:16 pm, Yanan <baoj...@gmail.com> wrote:
 

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