WebDriver.getWindowHandle() method

Question

I\'m new to Selenium learning. WebDriver.getWindowHandle() documentation is not very clear to me and the example is not working as given in the book, so I thought of confirm

Answer 1

If the link opens a new window you should have a new window handle in the WebDriver. You can loop current window handles with getWindowHandles.

See this example from http://www.thoughtworks.com/products/docs/twist/13.3/help/how_do_i_handle_popup_in_selenium2.html

  String parentWindowHandle = browser.getWindowHandle(); // save the current window handle.
  WebDriver popup = null;
  Iterator windowIterator = browser.getWindowHandles();
  while(windowIterator.hasNext()) { 
    String windowHandle = windowIterator.next(); 
    popup = browser.switchTo().window(windowHandle);
    if (popup.getTitle().equals("Google") {
      break;
    }
  }