selenium webdriver select element

Question

I have a select control on my site. I am using page objects to interact with the page. If I do (with the first 2 lines under my class and the selectByValue in my method)

@FindBy(id="foo")
private Select foo;

foo.selectByValue("myValue");

It fails with a null pointer. I also tried without the @FindBy.

Now if I do this in my method it all works fine and selects the correct item

Select foo = new Select(sDriver.findElement(By.id("foo")));
foo.selectByValue("myValue");

Here is the actual web snippet for that control (edited to protect the innocent)

<select id="foo" name="service_name">
    <option selected="selected" value="one">one</option>
    <option value="two">two</option>
    <option value="three">three</option>
</select>

Let me say that I have a work around for my issue but I don't get why the "normal" path is not working.

score 25 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 19 '15 at 19:10

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Thats because the Select class has this constructor:

Select(WebElement element)

See the Javadoc

So if you do something like this:

@FindBy(id="foo")
private WebElement wannabeSelect;
Select realSelect = new Select(wannabeSelect);
realSelect.selectByValue("myValue");

It should work.

BTW, I am using the same approach as you in the "workaround" because I dont wanna cast new WebElement object when I need Select object. But anyways, the

sDriver.findElement(By.id("foo"));

returns WebElement, so thats why its working. You can also do this:

 WebElement wannabeSelect = sDriver.findElement(By.id("foo"));
 Select foo = new Select(wannabeSelect);

edited Oct 19 '15 at 19:10

Luis Perez

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answered Mar 07 '12 at 15:44

Pavel Janicek

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ahh that makes sense it just seemed like it should have worked so I never really dug to deep. My fault. Thank you – ducati1212 Mar 07 '12 at 15:48
Note: if you include the Select declaration and cast in your class, just below the private WebElement declaration, you will get runtime errors when the class is instantiated; to avoid this, you can put the Select declaration and class in the method which does the interaction with the screen control. Again not ideal, but it does seem to work. – Vince Bowdren Apr 30 '13 at 10:53
with this approach, the pageobjects should be initialized after the page has fully loaded and that the object is present and visible in the driver. To have it proxied, take a look at [my implementation](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35931667/select-object-on-seleniums-pagefactory/36004572#36004572) – rrw Mar 17 '16 at 00:45

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 11 '14 at 18:46

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There are two ways to select the option value:

One:

// Denotes option value - technical name
select.selectByValue(fieldValue);

Two:

// Denotes option text that is actually visible to be selected
select.selectByVisibleText(fieldValue);

edited Mar 11 '14 at 18:46

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answered Mar 11 '14 at 18:26

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and select.selectByIndex(intValue) – dmeehan Sep 02 '14 at 08:46

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 27 '22 at 15:32

Other way I achieved this is by using below method for all my onchange dropdownselection boxes. Pass id and selection and it works

public void onchangedropdownselection(String object, String value) {
        WebElement obj = driver.findElement(By.id(object));
        obj.sendKeys(value);
        obj.sendKeys(Keys.UP);
        obj.sendKeys(Keys.DOWN);
    }

By doing up and down we are initialzing the script onchange.......

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