Using Selenium and Java How to ignore part of an element in xpath-CodePudding

I have the method below:

}
protected String getCertID() {
    String certIDKey = "certID";
    TestAction action = new TestAction(ActionType.SET_ELEMENT_TEXT,springContext);

    action.setIdentifierType("xpath");
    action.setIdentifierValue("//h1[contains(@data-id,'header_title')]");
    action.setValue(certIDKey);

    action.perform(driverFactory,testContext);

    log.info("CertID: "   testContext.getVariable(certIDKey));
    return testContext.getVariable(certIDKey);
}

This method returns this value: 21/2/467092- Saved

I require the method to return only: 21/2/467092 and ignore the - Saved part of element returned

CodePudding user response：

If h1 contain child elements, e.g. some span elements, and the exact text you want to get placed in some child element, like:

<h1 data-id="header_title">
    <span id="data">21/2/467092</span>
    <span>- Saved</span>
</h1>

you can use

"//h1[contains(@data-id,'header_title')]/span[1]"

"//h1[contains(@data-id,'header_title')]/span[@id='date']"

Otherwise, for case:

<h1 data-id="header_title">21/2/467092- Saved</h1>

<h1 data-id="header_title">
    21/2/467092
    <span>- Saved</span>
</h1>

you can only adjust the result text of h1

...
String roughText = testContext.getVariable(certIDKey);
return roughText.split("-")[0].trim();

CodePudding user response：

If the "- Saved" is constant there, you can just replace it with "" :

return testContext.getVariable(certIDKey).replace("- Saved", "")