Finding all cells within the table instead of cells within current row in foreach loop in Java-CodePudding

My code is like below.

    private List<WebElement> reports;
    public List<WebElement> getReports(){
        return Common.returnElementList(DriverFactory.getDriver(), reportsMenu, reports);
    }
    public Map<String, String> getReportDesc() {
        Map<String, String> temp = new HashMap<>();
        for(WebElement item: getReports()){
            List<WebElement> cols = item.findElements(By.xpath("/child::td[@role='gridcell']"));
            String key = Common.getElementText(DriverFactory.getDriver(), cols.get(0));
            String desc = Common.getElementText(DriverFactory.getDriver(), cols.get(1));
            temp.put(key, desc);
        }
        return temp;
    }

With item.findElements(By.xpath("/child::td[@role='gridcell']")); I am trying to get the cells of that specific row, instead I am getting all the cells in that table.

How Can I get the specific row columns?

CodePudding user response：

You need to use relative XPath locator.
Since you didn't share a link to the page containing that table we can only guess. So, I guess:
Instead of

item.findElements(By.xpath("/child::td[@role='gridcell']"));

try this:

item.findElements(By.xpath(".//td[@role='gridcell']"));

The dot . infront of the XPath means this is relative XPath, we want to locate element matching //td[@role='gridcell'] inside current node item.
Otherwise driver will search for all elements matching /child::td[@role='gridcell'] expression form the first, top element on the page.