WebDriver: How to check if an page object web element exists?

Question

How to check if an Element exists, when using Page Objects with webdriver.

So far I am doing it this way.

DefaultPage defaultPage = PageFactory.initE         


        

Answer 1

Arquillian has implemented that feature in Graphene extension.

Check ElementLocatorConditionFactory.isPresent() function.

They more or less do what you wrote in your question (from ExpectedConditions.findElement in selenium-support.jar) :

try {
    return driver.findElement(by);
} catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
    throw e;
} catch (WebDriverException e) {
    // [...] some log
    throw e;
}