Error with selenium.WebElement.sendKeys()

Question

I am putting together a small app to perform automated checkouts on a Magento site, using Selenium WebDriver in Java. I\'m working on learning Java, so I\'m adamant on getti

Answer 1

I have had similar problems with calling sendKeys(). The problem usually is, that the signature is a var-ary, that is CharSequence... instead of just CharSequence.

Of course this should not be a problem with Java 6. My guess would be that your maven compile uses a different compiler setting. Anyways you could change your code to

searchField.sendKeys(new String[] { "sample" });

to help diagnose the problem.

Answer 2

When you are creating project make sure that you select "Use an execution environment JRE: JavaSE-1.6. You can execute test successfully with out any Sendkeys Error. 100% it will work.

Answer 3

I discovered another way to work around this. I was not specifying the version of Java to compile for, so Maven was compiling for an older version. I added this to my pom.xml:

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.2</version>
    <configuration>
      <source>1.5</source>
      <target>1.5</target>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>

That allows me to just a literal string "SAMPLE" in sendKeys() and it works fine.