Differences between impilicit, explicit and fluentwait

Question

What are the exact differences between implicitwait(), explicitwait() and fluentwait()? Could you explain with examples?

Answer 1

Implicit wait: Implicit wait tells web driver to wait on every instance when try to find element. It is like global wait for all driver.findelement instance. It will force web driver to wait until element is appeared on page or defined time whatever is earliest. Drawback is it throws exception when element is not loaded on page even in defined time span.

Explicit wait: Explicit wait is of two types:

1. WebDriverWait
2. FluentWait

both are classes and implements Wait interface.

WebDriverWait is applied on certain element with defined expected condition and time. This wait is only applied to the specified element. This wait can also throw exception when element is not found.

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait (driver, 20);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.VisibilityofElementLocated(By.xpath(""//button[@value='Save Changes']"")));

Fluent wait: Fluent wait is another type of Explicit wait and you can define polling and ignore the exception to continue with script execution in case element is not found.

new FluentWait(driver).withTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS).pollingevery(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS).ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class);