Write the output in notepad using Selenium

[Karthik]

Hi Tarun,

Following is my script in which I have variables a & b... those are getting printed in the console window but I want those in a notepad..can you please tell me how to add the syntax for it?? so that it will create a new notepad in a particular path and write those data in that notepad.

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import com.google.protobuf.ByteString.Output;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;

import org.apache.commons.io.output.WriterOutputStream;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.internal.seleniumemulation.WaitForPageToLoad;
@SuppressWarnings({ "deprecation", "unused" })
public class notepadwrite2 extends SeleneseTestCase {
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "http://www.test.com/");
selenium.start();
}
@Test
public void testCase1() throws Exception {
selenium.open("/");
selenium.click("id=bar_city");
selenium.select("id=bar_city", "label=Chennai");
selenium.click("name=imageField");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
selenium.click("//img[@onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/bricks/propertySearch.html']);\"]");
selenium.click("link=View Contact Details");
String a = selenium.getText("//span[@id='cPersonName#9528957']/b");
String b = selenium.getText("css=span.phoneMar50 > b");
System.out.println(a);
System.out.println(b);
}

@After
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
selenium.stop();
}
}

[softwaretestingforum]

Hi Karthik,

You could use something like this -

                  FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter("out.txt");
                  BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter);
                  bufferedWriter.write("You Text here");
                  bufferedWriter.close();

Replace "You Text here", with your String
Let me know if you need any more info.

[Karthik]

Hi Tarun,

Now, I have managed to print the value a in notepad :-)

But, this is the scenario in which I am working now,

A web page has the following listings with values a & b

Listing 1
Listing 2
Listing 3
Listing 4
Listing 5

My script copy the  value a displayed in 'Listing 1' and prints it in a notepad.
How should I substitue the values, so that it should copy all listings a & b values and write in a notepad??

Here is my script,

selenium.open("/");
selenium.click("id=bar_city");
selenium.select("id=bar_city", "label=Chennai");
selenium.click("name=imageField");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
selenium.click("//img[@onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/bricks/propertySearch.html']);\"]");
selenium.click("link=View Contact Details");
String a = selenium.getText("//span[@id='cPersonName#9528957']/b");

System.out.println(a);
byte buf[] = a.getBytes();
FileOutputStream fi = new FileOutputStream("D:\\data.txt");

for(int i=0; i<buf.length;i++){
        fi.write(buf[i]);
}
fi.write(buf);
}

Thanks.

[softwaretestingforum]

Hi Karthik,

I did not quite get this -

Karthik wrote

A web page has the following listings with values a & b

Listing 1
Listing 2
Listing 3
Listing 4
Listing 5

My script copy the  value a displayed in 'Listing 1' and prints it in a notepad.
How should I substitue the values, so that it should copy all listings a & b values and write in a notepad??

Could you elaborate a little more?

n.b. you are the first proud poster in this forum

[Karthik]

Hi Tarun, Its really a very useful blog and am very happy to be the first poster

And for your reference,
(For eg) there will be 10 ad's in this page,
http://www.freeads.in/property-real-estate/

I have to click the 'View Details' button, and copy the data for eg. Name & Number and print it in a notepad.
In the same way I need to automate the script so that it will click on all 10 ad's, copy the name & number and write it in the same notepad. But am very much struck with the syntax?? how can i do this???

[softwaretestingforum]

I think I get it now.
You could create a map to store values and write them to text file -


     public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
                Map<String, String> dataMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
               
                // Put the number and name which you get from Selenium
                dataMap.put("1234567890", "karthik");
                dataMap.put("0987654321", "tarun");
                // Some more values here

                FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter("out.txt");
                BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter);
               
                for(String data:dataMap.keySet()) {
                        bufferedWriter.write("number: " +data+ ", name: "+dataMap.get(data) +"\n");
                }
                bufferedWriter.close();
        }

You should get output like -

number: 1234567890, name: karthik
number: 0987654321, name: tarun

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[Karthik]

Hi Tarun,

I have mailed you my test script... can you please tell me how can i include your syntax so that it will go to the particular page and copy / write the values in the notepad. Am sorry for taking your time :-)

Thanks,
Karthik.S

[softwaretestingforum]

Can you paste you script in right format herein. Your email had it badly formatted.
See my second last post which has code snippets. It makes it easy to understand.
I ask you to post it here so that others could also benefit from it.

[Karthik]

Sorry for the formatting, I saw it now oly :-)

Here is my script.

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.DataInputStream;

import com.google.protobuf.ByteString.Output;
import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;

import org.apache.commons.io.output.WriterOutputStream;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.internal.seleniumemulation.WaitForPageToLoad;
@SuppressWarnings({ "deprecation", "unused" })
public class notepadwrite extends SeleneseTestCase {
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "http://www.magicbricks.com/");
selenium.start();
}
@Test
public void testCase1() throws Exception {
selenium.open("/");
selenium.click("id=bar_city");
selenium.select("id=bar_city", "label=Chennai");
selenium.click("name=imageField");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
selenium.click("//img[@onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/bricks/propertySearch.html']);\"]");
selenium.click("link=View Contact Details");
String a = selenium.getText("//span[@id='cPersonName#9528957']/b");
//String b = selenium.getText("css=span.phoneMar50 > b");

System.out.println(a);
byte buf[] = a.getBytes();
FileOutputStream fi = new FileOutputStream("D:\\data.txt");

for(int i=0; i<buf.length;i++){
        fi.write(buf[i]);
}
fi.write(buf);
}

@After
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
selenium.stop();
}
}

[softwaretestingforum]

I suppose you don't have any issue till here -

Karthik wrote

String a = selenium.getText("//span[@id='cPersonName#9528957']/b");
String b = selenium.getText("css=span.phoneMar50 > b");
}

I also assume that you would reading these values again and again using some sort of loop.
Now having read values a and b  you could store it in map -

Map<String, String> dataMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
               
                dataMap.put(a, b);
                // Some more values here

                FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter("out.txt");
                BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter);
               
                // Iterate through values in map and write them to file.
                for(String data:dataMap.keySet()) {
                        bufferedWriter.write("number: " +data+ ", name: "+dataMap.get(data) +"\n");
                }
                bufferedWriter.close();
        }

hope this helps. I would also suggest you to use page object pattern instead of writing test this way.
This post of mine might help you with page object pattern -
http://www.seleniumtests.com/2012/01/selenium-2-methods-are-no-more-weird.html?utm_source=BP_recent

[Karthik]

Tarun, am getting error in this line,

String b = selenium.getText("css=span.phoneMar50 > b");

ERROR: Element css=span.phoneMar50 > b not found

can you tell me how to handle this??

[softwaretestingforum]

Can you post the html of element which you are trying to access?

[Karthik]

Here is the HTML,

Mobile: [phone]

[softwaretestingforum]

No that is text and not html.
Use Firebug in Firefox to find html of element.

You element locator - "css=span.phoneMar50 > b" is not right and I want to see html corresponding to this locator

[Karthik]

Sorry I think its displaying with HTML conversion "Mobile: tyle="">9176604238, 9176987724"

[softwaretestingforum]

I need html like this -

"<input id="subject" name="subject" value="Re: Write the output in notepad using Selenium" size="60" tabindex="1" type="text">"

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[Karthik]

This is the HTML,

<div class="pad_tp5 pad_btm1"><div style="" id="contactNo#9528957">Mobile: [phone]Landline: 91-044-45528474</div></div>

[softwaretestingforum]

try this -

Karthik wrote

<div class="pad_tp5 pad_btm1"><div style="" id="contactNo#9528957">Mobile: [phone]Landline: 91-044-45528474</div></div>

selenium.getText("span.phoneMar50");