Toggling between windows

Let me tell you upfront , using Thread.sleep is not good at all, when you run a bunch of test cases.It will slow down the tests and hence it  is to be avoided. However, I have used it in my example here, I shall substitute with better wait options sooner .

So here goes the code for toggling between windows.


import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;

public class SwitchWindowsDemo {

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.navigate()
.to("http://www.toolsqa.com/automation-practice-form/");

driver.manage().window().maximize();

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

// This is the parent window

driver.findElement(By.name("firstname")).sendKeys("parent window");

// Element on which to right click(Partial Link Test)

WebElement we = driver.findElement(By
.xpath("//a[contains(@title,'Form')]"));

Actions act = new Actions(driver);

// Right click,and click on second option from menu,which will open new
// window which is the child window

act.contextClick(we).sendKeys(Keys.ARROW_DOWN)
.sendKeys(Keys.ARROW_DOWN).sendKeys(Keys.RETURN).build()
.perform();

Thread.sleep(2000l);

Set<String> st = driver.getWindowHandles();

Iterator<String> itr = st.iterator();

String parentHandle = itr.next();

String childHandle = itr.next();

  //Switching control to child window using its handle

driver.switchTo().window(childHandle);

// Control has been passed to child window, performing some action in
// the child window

driver.findElement(By.name("firstname")).sendKeys("child window");

Thread.sleep(2000l);

// This will close only the child window
//If we use driver.quit() instead, then the session gets closed right away

driver.quit();

// Shifting control back to parent window

driver.switchTo().window(parentHandle);

driver.findElement(By.name("lastname")).sendKeys(
"back in parent window");

Thread.sleep(1000l);

// This will close the session

driver.quit();

}

}

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