Selenium — visiting URL with global variables

Question

Suppose I have a config.cfg file with the following:

[Info]
keyword: Cool Shirt

How would I pass keyword into a URL, such that

driver.get("http://www.somewebsite.com/checkout?keyword")

achieves the same result as

driver.get("http://www.somewebsite.com/checkout?keyword=Cool+Shirt")?

String URL=String.format("http://www.somewebsite.com/checkout?%s",keyword); You can try thi code — Ankur Singh, Dec 24 '17 at 19:01
@AnkurSingh Effectively, yes. I'd like to automate filling in the keyword field in the given URL; the constraint, however, is that I'd like to do so by using the global variable from the config.cfg file. — solo, Dec 24 '17 at 19:03
You can read your keyword value from config file "http://www.opencodez.com/java/read-config-file-in-java.htm" using this way and then pass it into string formater to build string as you want — Ankur Singh, Dec 24 '17 at 19:08
@AnkurSingh I'm not sure I follow. I tried the first case and got `name 'string' is not defined`. — solo, Dec 24 '17 at 19:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 24 '17 at 21:14

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You can read your keyword value from config file "opencodez.com/java/read-config-file-in-java.htm"; using this way and then pass it into string formater to build string as you want

String URL=String.format("somewebsite.com/checkout?%s",keyword);

edited Dec 24 '17 at 21:14

JeffC

answered Dec 24 '17 at 19:41

Ankur Singh

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