How to pass double quoted strings through sendKeys method using Selenium and Java

Question

I am working on a selenium script where 3 values are being fetched and store in String.

String one = "19292";
String two = "Abc";
String three = "def";

I want it to send text as (one + two + three) but all of them is having double quotes. So end result should be "19292""Abc""def"

How can I do this ?

I have tried using the escape mechanism using back slash, but whenever I use it rather than fetching the string value it prints the text. For Eg :

\"one\" prints "one" rather than "19292"

Answer 1

Try sth like this:

field.sendKeys("\"" + one + "\"\"" + two + "\"\"" + three + "\"");

I just checked with selenium and it works. The input which goes to field is : "19292""Abc""def"

Or if you don't know the number of Strings then below is the method which will convert in quotes format.

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String one = "19292";
    String two = "Abc";
    String three = "def";

    System.out.println(surroundWithDoubleQuotes(one, two, three));


}

public static String surroundWithDoubleQuotes(String... input) {
    if(input == null || input.length == 0) {
        return "";
    }
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
    for(String arg : input) {
        builder.append("\"\"");
        builder.append(arg);
    }
    builder.append("\"");
    builder.deleteCharAt(0);

    return builder.toString();
}