In Page Object Model do i have to create webdriver all the time?

Question

I'm using the Page Object Model I just started i created 2 packages one is com.automation.pages another one is com.automation.testcases. In both packages I created a class for the login page it works fine I'm sharing the code below.

package com.automation.pages;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.FindBy;

public class LoginPage {
    
    WebDriver driver;

    
    public LoginPage(WebDriver ldriver)
    {
        this.driver=ldriver;
    }
    
    @FindBy (xpath="//input[@name='email'] ") WebElement email;
    @FindBy (xpath="//input[@name='password']") WebElement password;
    @FindBy (xpath="//body/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/form[1]/div[3]/div[2]/button[1]") WebElement loginbutton;
    
    
    
    public void logintoLabaiik(String email1, String password1 )
    {
        try {
            Thread.sleep(2000);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        
        
        email.sendKeys(email1);
        password.sendKeys(password1);
        loginbutton.click();
    }
    
    
}

The problem I'm facing when I working on the new page is when I created a driver and when using ldriver it throws me an error also when I replace the "l" still it throws me the error. kindly solve my problem.

package com.automation.pages;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

public class TaxSetup {
    
    WebDriver driver;
    
    public TaxSetup(WebDriver driver)
    {
        this.driver.ldriver;
    }
    
    
}

Answer 1

Please correct the below line in your TaxSetUp constructor.

this.driver.ldriver;

This is suppose to be

this.driver = driver;

And yes, you have to pass the WebDriver instance for all the page classes that you create as part of your application otherwise they will assign default value to the driver which is null.