org.openqa.selenium.support.pagefactory

Class Annotations

java.lang.Object

org.openqa.selenium.support.pagefactory.AbstractAnnotations

org.openqa.selenium.support.pagefactory.Annotations

public class Annotations
extends AbstractAnnotations

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Annotations(java.lang.reflect.Field field)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected void	assertValidAnnotations()
org.openqa.selenium.By	buildBy() Defines how to transform given object (field, class, etc) into By class used by webdriver to locate elements.
protected org.openqa.selenium.By	buildByFromDefault()
protected java.lang.reflect.Field	getField()
boolean	isLookupCached() Defines whether or not given element should be returned from cache on further calls.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Annotations

public Annotations(java.lang.reflect.Field field)

Parameters:

field - expected to be an element in a Page Object

Method Detail

isLookupCached

public boolean isLookupCached()

Defines whether or not given element should be returned from cache on further calls.

Specified by:

isLookupCached in class AbstractAnnotations

Returns:

true if @CacheLookup annotation exists on a field

buildBy

public org.openqa.selenium.By buildBy()

Defines how to transform given object (field, class, etc) into By class used by webdriver to locate elements. Looks for one of FindBy, FindBys or FindAll field annotations. In case no annotations provided for field, uses field name as 'id' or 'name'.

Specified by:

buildBy in class AbstractAnnotations

Returns:

By object

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - when more than one annotation on a field provided

getField

protected java.lang.reflect.Field getField()

buildByFromDefault

protected org.openqa.selenium.By buildByFromDefault()

assertValidAnnotations

protected void assertValidAnnotations()