How to handle calendar or date picker using dynamic XPATH?

Most of the times selecting a particular date from a date picker is a tedious job. We can easily automate this scenario with the help of dynamic XPATH.

AUT : https://www.spicejet.com/

Test Steps :

• Navigate to https://www.spicejet.com/
• Enter Departure City
• Enter Arrival City
• Click on "Depart Date" date picker and select an appropriate date of departure
• Click on 'Flights' icon to view the available flights

Test Script :

package seleniumwebdriverbestpractices;


import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class HandleCalendarUsingDynamicXPATH {
static WebDriver driver;
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", System.getProperty("user.dir")+"\\drivers\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.get("https://www.spicejet.com/");
driver.manage().window().maximize();
// Enter Departure From
driver.findElement(By.id("ctl00_mainContent_ddl_originStation1_CTXT")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.id("ctl00_mainContent_ddl_originStation1_CTXT")).sendKeys("DEL");
Thread.sleep(1000);
// Enter Arrival To
driver.findElement(By.id("ctl00_mainContent_ddl_destinationStation1_CTXT")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.id("ctl00_mainContent_ddl_destinationStation1_CTXT")).sendKeys("GOI");

Thread.sleep(1000);
String departDate = "31 October 2019";
String departDateArr[] = departDate.split(" ");
String month_year = departDateArr[1]+" "+departDateArr[2];
String day = departDateArr[0];



selectDate(month_year,day);


        Thread.sleep(5000);
     
        // Click on Flight Icon
        JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
        js.executeScript("arguments[0].click();",              driver.findElement(By.name("ctl00$mainContent$btn_FindFlights")));

     Thread.sleep(5000);
if(driver.findElement(By.id("availabilityTable0")).isDisplayed()){
System.out.println("Status -- Passed | Available Flights are displayed successfully");

}else{
System.out.println("Status -- Failed | Available Flights are displayed successfully");
}



}


private static void selectDate(String month_year,String day) throws InterruptedException{
List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@id='ui-datepicker-div']//div[@class='ui-datepicker-title']"));

for(int i=0;i<elements.size();i++){
String elementText = elements.get(i).getText();
if(elementText.equals(month_year)){
List<WebElement> days = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@id='ui-datepicker-div']//div[contains(@class,'ui-datepicker-group')]["+(i+1)+"]/table/tbody/tr/td/a"));
for(WebElement d : days){
if(d.getText().equals(day)){
d.click();
return;
}
}
}
}

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@title='Next']")).click();
Thread.sleep(1000);
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@title='Next']")).click();
Thread.sleep(2000);
selectDate(month_year,day);
}

}