Selenium wait until document is ready
Can anyone let me how can I make selenium wait until the time the page loads completely? I want something generic, I know I can configure WebDriverWait and call something like 'find' to make it wait but I don't go that far. I just need to test that the page loads successfully and move on to next page to test.
I found something in .net but couldn't make it work in java ...
IWait<IWebDriver> wait = new OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30.00));
wait.Until(driver1 => ((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("return document.readyState").Equals("complete"));
Any thoughts anyone?
Answer
Your suggested solution only waits for DOM readyState to signal complete. But Selenium by default tries to wait for those (and a little bit more) on page loads via the driver.get() and element.click() methods. They are already blocking, they wait for the page to fully load and those should be working ok.
Problem, obviously, are redirects via AJAX requests and running scripts - those can't be caught by Selenium, it doesn't wait for them to finish. Also, you can't reliably catch them via readyState - it waits for a bit, which can be useful, but it will signal complete long before all the AJAX content is downloaded.
There is no general solution that would work everywhere and for everyone, that's why it's hard and everyone uses something a little bit different.
The general rule is to rely on WebDriver to do his part, then use implicit waits, then use explicit waits for elements you want to assert on the page, but there's a lot more techniques that can be done. You should pick the one (or a combination of several of them) that works best in your case, on your tested page.
See my two answers regarding this for more information: