Selenium get value of current implicit wait

Question

I realize that Selenium has a default value for implicit waits, but how do I get this value if I change it? For example:

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Answer 1

TL;DR - This is not a solution to get implicit waits. You cannot get the implicit wait in Java even today, without using a workaround like this.

In 2020, selenium 3.141.59 still does not have a getter for any timeouts. The WebDriver interface has a nested interface Timeouts which does not define any getters. RemoteWebDriver, which is the parent of Chrome and Firefox drivers, implements the WebDriver interface and it does not add a getter for timeouts.

RemoteWebDriver implements WebDriver.Timeouts, but it does not store the value of implicit timeout anywhere, as you can see from the code below.

protected class RemoteTimeouts implements Timeouts {

  public Timeouts implicitlyWait(long time, TimeUnit unit) {
    execute(DriverCommand.SET_TIMEOUT, ImmutableMap.of(
        "implicit", TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.convert(time, unit)));
    return this;
  }

  public Timeouts setScriptTimeout(long time, TimeUnit unit) {
    execute(DriverCommand.SET_TIMEOUT, ImmutableMap.of(
        "script", TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.convert(time, unit)));
    return this;
  }

  public Timeouts pageLoadTimeout(long time, TimeUnit unit) {
    execute(DriverCommand.SET_TIMEOUT, ImmutableMap.of(
        "pageLoad", TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.convert(time, unit)));
    return this;
  }
} // timeouts class.

The execute() method in the RemoteWebDriver takes the wait inside a Map of parameters, but it does not make that map or the wait settings accessible to us via a getter.

  protected Response execute(String driverCommand, Map parameters)
  //Open the source code to see why you can't make your own getter for implicitWait.