Handling cookies in using Serenity BDD

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Can someone please help me in understanding how to handle or accept cookies layer button after the launch of my application URL in Serenity Dojo Web automation that uses Selenium.
I tried the below but it does not work:
1.driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[5]//div/div/div/div/div[4]/button[1]")).click();
2.WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);

WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions. elementToBeClickable (By. xpath ("/html/body/div[5]//div/div/div/div/div[4]/button[1]")));

((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(ā€œarguments[0].click();ā€, element);

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Can you add the URL and descrie a bit what exactly you want to do?

I would say that generic anwers on how to click a button will not really help and maybe a more hands on approach is the road to take.

Just paste the URL and I am sure someone will respond with some code or ideas

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Are we talking about https://serenitydojo.teachable.com/ ?
What is the barrier here - other than having an account on their platform?

I was hepeing to be able to find the accessibility ID here, accessing the DOM using expaths like that are a recipe for this not working and making you feel that selenium is the wrong tool to be using, it really is not, itā€™s just that the training is leading you to the wrong places.

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https://ratioform.de is the URL
I need to accept the cookies after the app url is launched.
The element - button, i need to click is attached to a #shadow-root
How to handle such an element?

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that looks like a CSS ID, but also might be in the shadow DOM, so you will want to learn about shadow DOM a bit too, since itā€™s an alternative traversal mechanism or ā€œmapā€, let me go see if i can reach it and double check for you. Do you have a Google account? we can do an interactive session if you like and I can actually show you?

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try join at Sign in - Google Accounts

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can you please give me 20mins.Il join!

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Sorry my internet dropped out there, still puzzled why the classname was not a valid locator in this case (even though I was using xpath syntax to fetch by classname which is backwards)

$x(ā€œ//*[contains(text(),ā€˜Akzeptierenā€™)]ā€)[0].click()

works, but itā€™s not brilliant, although it illustrates 2 ways to solve this one

  1. the element is ā€œinvisibleā€ for starters. seleniumā€™s find-element-by function will time out on this element. this happens because Selenium is always making a best guess at whether an element is possibly obscured.
  2. the element might not be ā€œclickableā€ either as far selenium is concerned, hence then one needs to invoke some javascript in the browser too. How that works will depend on your test framework
    for example I have this code line called often in my test framework

#scroll to visible
self.driver.execute_script(ā€œarguments[0].scrollIntoView();ā€, element)

and thus I use this to click on any ā€œunclickableā€ or elements selenium thinks are invisible this will help there :

driver.execute_script(ā€œarguments[0].click();ā€, element)

Keen to know how you wrote a good locator for this element.

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Oh, and @muchapathi
Welcome to MOT, sorry to drag you into a meeting with strangers, and then have my internet die. You did deal with it well though. Hope to learn from ResterTest about the partial ID matching locators as well. I have been moving on a learn-as-you-go myself, still more experiences to be had.

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I have also tried the below code to perform click action but it did not work :

WebElement webElement = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions. elementToBeClickable(By. xpath("//*[contains(text(),ā€˜Akzeptierenā€™)]")));

Actions action = new Actions(driver);

action.moveToElement(webElement).click().build().perform();

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Shadow shadow = new Shadow(driver);
WebElement webElement = shadow.findElementByXPath("//button[@class=ā€˜cookieboxStartAccept cookieBoxStartbuttonā€™]");
shadow.scrollTo(webElement);

	webElement.click();

Tried the above using a dependency,but did not work

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If you canā€™t find the answer, John Ferguson has a LinkedIn group (Agile Test Automation Secrets) where you can maybe get help, heā€™s pretty active there from what Iā€™ve noticed:

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WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);

WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions. presenceOfElementLocated(By. xpath ("//*[contains(text(),ā€˜Akzeptierenā€™)]")));

((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(ā€œarguments[0].click();ā€, element);

Tried above code-but getting timeout exception

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oh rats, Iā€™ll whip open my trick box and try again in a moment.

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Okay, Swetha, the problem seems to be that there is an animation, the webpage is changing all the while and that element even though itā€™s the same element before and after waiting, if you are too quick, no dice. It looks like there are 2 ways

Option #1

Basically there are 2 options open to us , wait for the page to stop ā€œloadingā€
or keep trying to dismiss the button in a loop until the button disappears. Here is the python code that waits for the page to stop animating, then clicks the button using a javascript execute

chrome_wd = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
chrome_wd.get(ā€˜https://ratioform.de/ā€™)
#
wait_page_load(chrome_wd)
element = WebDriverWait(chrome_wd, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located(
(By.XPATH, ā€œ//[contains(text(),ā€˜Akzeptierenā€™)]")))
chrome_wd.execute_script(ā€œarguments[0].click();console.log(ā€˜clicked it!!!ā€™);ā€, element)
# verify dismissed
try:
element = WebDriverWait(chrome_wd, 2).until(EC.presence_of_element_located(
(By.XPATH, "//[contains(text(),ā€˜Akzeptierenā€™)]ā€)))
except TimeoutException as e:
pass
print(ā€˜Cookies box is goneā€™)
time.sleep(10)
chrome_wd.quit()

Option #2
personally I would prefer this approach

  1. wait for button
  2. click button
  3. if button still exists goto step 1
    with a timeout to prevent hangs of course. That algorithm would feel cleaner to me because itā€™s very explicit what we are up to.

Finally
I am normally raising a bug with the developers to fix any places where any web element that needs automating are not easy to get to (the animation problem is a marketing problem which is a battle Iā€™m not prepared to fight today.) has a unique ID. Iā€™m trying lately to rise these bugs as blockers to force the developers to pro-actively make the app testable before they hand it to QA. It saves a load of time.

(I may be wrong, as I mentioned, not been doing web hacking long, many folk been doing this with a year for every month of my experience.)

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