Working with Action Interface in Selenium – User friendly Tech help

To perform Advanced User Interactions, like drag and drop, keyboard events; selenium came up with Action and Actions interface under a  comprehensive API, named as Advanced User Interaction which facilitate user actions to be performed on a application. Thus users can use this API to simulate usage of keyboard or mouse events.

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Lets do some Action in Selenium

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nExample:-

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• To double-click a control we have DoubleClick(), method of Actions Class.

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• To Send keyboard actions, we have SendKeys() ,method.(Equivalent to WebElement.sendKey(…))

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• Clicking the mouse button that brings up the contextual menu.we can use “ContextClick()”, method.

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Package:-
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import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
nimport org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Action;
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 Actions oAction=new Actions(selenium);
 oAction.contextClick(element).perform();

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Actions Class Methods

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nExplanation:-
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We need to import above packages to access the action and actions class methods.Create the actions class object and access the range of available methods.

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What about multiple mouse and keyboard actions?
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In above case we simply performed one action on the element, incase we want to perform sequence of events on the same element, we can achieve same by using build method.

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Code:-
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 Actions oAction=new Actions(selenium); Actions moreActions = oAction
 .moveToElement(element)
 .click()
 .keyDown(element,Keys.SHIFT)
 .sendKeys(element,"selenium");
 Action enterInCaps= moreActions.build();
 enterInCaps.perform();

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nScenarios:-
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1.How to right click and open the application in new window.
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Code:-

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 Actions oAction=new Actions(selenium);
 oAction.contextClick(element).perform();
 oAction.sendKeys("w").perform();

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n2.How to fetch tool tip of a control in Selenium .
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 Actions oAction=new Actions(selenium);
 oAction.clickAndHold(element).perform();

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n3.How to send text in capital letters into a text-box?
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nCode:-

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import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Action;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
public class ActionClass {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 WebDriver selenium = new FirefoxDriver();
 System.out.println("Launching Browser");
 //Opening the URL
 selenium.get("http://www.uftHelp.com");
 //Implicit wait for the browser to launch
 selenium.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
 //Google Search Text-box 
 WebElement element =selenium.findElement(By.id("gsc-i-id1"));
 //Creating action class object
 Actions oAction=new Actions(selenium);
 //Creating action collection to perform numerous methods on element Actions moreActions = oAction
 .moveToElement(element)
 .click()
 .keyDown(element,Keys.SHIFT) //for caps
 .sendKeys(element,"selenium"); 
 Action enterInCaps= moreActions.build();
 enterInCaps.perform();
 System.out.println("Text is entered in Captial letters"); 
 //Closing the browser 
 //selenium.quit(); }}

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n4.How we can drag and drop element in selenium?
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nCode:-

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import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
public class DragAndDrop {
 public static void main(String[] args) { 
 WebDriver selenium = new FirefoxDriver();
 System.out.println("Launching Browser");
 //Opening the URL
 selenium.get("http://jqueryui.com/resources/demos/droppable/default.html");
 //Implicit wait for the browser to launch
 selenium.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
 //Identifying the elements to perform action 
 WebElement draggable = selenium.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='draggable']"));
 WebElement droppable = selenium.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='droppable']"));
 Actions oAction = new Actions(selenium);
 //Performing Drag and Drop operation 
 oAction.dragAndDrop(draggable, droppable).perform();
 System.out.println("Successfully completed the Drag-Drop operation"); }}

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nNote:- we can also re-size the control, just need to change syntax a bit 
noAction.dragAndDropBy(resize, 400, 200).perform();
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n5.How to refresh a application window using Action class?
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nCode:-

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 Actions oAction=new Actions(selenium);
 oActions.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys(Keys.F5).perform();