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Super class that can override @FindBy

I am porting over an existing project and I have a super class called DetailPage that is the only thing I can change/edit. It's a selenium testing project and in previous versions I had hundreds of individual pages that extended DetailPage and had the following lines:

@FindBy(id="someID")
private WebElement someIDBox;

to search a page for a given id and assign that element to a variable. I now have a similar website that is nonW3C so instead of finding by id I now need to find by name ie:

@FindBy(name="someID")
private WebElement someIDBox;

is what I now want.

So my question is how can I (if possible) make a super class function in DetailPage that would notice I say id and override with name?

I DO NOT want a function that just replaces the text id with name in the individual pages as I need to preserve those.

Solution

  • This does not meet the criteria that I asked but thanks to @guy I was introduced to ByIdOrName which helps with my problem. So I made a little script that went through all my files in the workspace and replaced 

    @FindBy(id="someID")
private WebElement someIDBox;

    with

    @FindBy(how = How.ID_OR_NAME, using="someID")
private WebElement someIDBox;

    while this made it so I had to alter all test pages(which is what I wanted to avoid) it does not alter how other tests for other websites work which is key!