selenium ClickSubmenu (snippet)

Python web automation, selenium example 'ClickSubmenu'

Modules used in program:

• import unittest

ClickSubmenu

Python selenium example: ClickSubmenu

from selenium                                       import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui                  import WebDriverWait

from selenium.webdriver.support                     import expected_conditions as EC

from selenium.webdriver.common.by                   import By

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains        import ActionChains

import unittest




class ClickSubmenu(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        global driver
        driver = webdriver.Firefox()
        driver.get("http://travelingtony.weebly.com/")
        driver.maximize_window()



    def test_ClickSubmenu(self):
        #Locators
        africaMenuLocator     = "//a[.='Africa']"
        gabonSubmenuLocator   = "//a[contains(@href, 'gabon')]" 
        impalaDivLocator      = "//div[@class='wsite-header']"
        africaMenuElement     = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).\
                                until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(africaMenuLocator))

        actions = ActionChains(driver)  #Creates an ActionChains object
        #This is not the CLEANEST way to do it
        actions.move_to_element(africaMenuElement)  #Moves to this element
        actions.perform()
        gabonSubMenuElement = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).\
                           until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, gabonSubmenuLocator)))

        gabonSubMenuElement.click()

#Combines things into action chains
#Does not work because of Selenium browser capabilities: 
#MoveTargetOutOfBoundsException: Message: Offset within element cannot be scrolled into view:
        # actions.move_to_element(africaMenuElement)
        # actions.click(driver.find_element_by_xpath(gabonSubmenuLocator))
        # actions.perform()

        #Make sure the Gabon submenu shows up

        WebDriverWait(driver, 10).\
            until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_xpath(impalaDivLocator))

    def tearDown(self):
        driver.quit()

if __name__ == "__main__":
   unittest.main()

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