Selenium Python - Unable to find an element, get stale element exception when using element locator

Question

Scenario: 1.Login to a website using script and navigate to the Home page. 2. On the home page, click a link and navigate to a new page. 3. Then navigate back to the home page using the top navigation bar Home link.

I am using the POM ( Page object model) where all my locators are defined in one python module.

The following is my directory structure 1. Properties.py ( This is where I specify all the login credentials, web driver and base url).

2. Envsetup.py( This has setup and tear down methods)

3. Locators.py ( This contains the locators for each page under a Locator class)

4. Page objects( Under this directory I have HomePage.py for the home page that has methods under the Homepage class, each of these methods returns a specific web element locator using the Locator class)

5. test scripts( test_homepage.py), this is where I am extending my Envsetup class to run the tests.

When I try to navigate back to my Home page, I get a stale elementrefernce exception error.

test_homepage.py

class Home(EnvSetup):
 def test_HomePage(self):
 browser = self.browser
 browser.implicitly_wait(10)
 homepage = Home(browser)
 assert browser.title
 print('Running tests on ' + browser.title)
 if homepage.view_all_users().is_displayed(): # This method is defined in the Hompage module
 homepage.view_all_users().click()
 else:
 raise NoSuchElementException
 #browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="home"]').click() -----------> This works fine, takes me back to the Home page
 if homepage.nav_to_home().is_displayed(): ----------> I get a StaleElementException error
 homepage.nav_to_home().click()
 In the following case, I get 
webDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located(By.XPATH, homepage.nav_to_home()))
TypeError: __init__() takes 2 positional arguments but 3 were given
 try:
 WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located(By.XPATH, homepage.nav_to_home()))
 except StaleElementReferenceException as e:
 raise e
 homepage.nav_to_home().click()
if __name__ == '__main__':
 unittest.main()

Homepage.py

from Tests.Pageobjects.Locators import Locator
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
class Home(object):
 def __init__(self, browser):
 self.browser = browser
 self.logo = browser.find_element(By.XPATH, Locator.logo)
 self.nav_Home = browser.find_element(By.XPATH, Locator.nav_Home)
 def get_logo(self):
 return self.logo
 def nav_to_home(self):
 return self.nav_Home

• Dev Bin: I need to create a try except block or a for loop to avoid this exception?

Answer 1

Fixed the Stale element exception with used WebDriverwait in my Page object. Added WebDriverwait(self.browser, 100).until(lambda browser: self.browser.find_element(By.XPATH, Locator.nav_Home) to my methods that return the locators in the page object.

Thanks!

Answer 2

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from WFC_POM.locators.locators import locators
class signup_page():
 def __int__(self, driver):
 self.driver = driver
 self.signin_button = locators.signin_button
 self.click_signup_button_xpath = locators.click_signup_button_xpath
 self.input_fullname_id = locators.input_Fullname_id
 self.input_username_id = locators.input_username_id
 self.input_mobile_id = locators.input_mobile_id
 self.input_email_id = locators.input_email_id
 self.input_dob_xpath = locators.input_dob_xpath
 self.input_gender_id = locators.input_gender_id
 self.input_address_id = locators.input_address_id
 def enter_signin_button(self):
 self.driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, self.signin_button).click()
 def click_signup_button(self):
 self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH, self.click_signup_button_xpath).click()
 def input_fullname(self, fullname):
 self.driver.find_element(By.ID, self.input_fullname_id).send_keys(fullname)
 def input_username(self, username):
 self.driver.find_element(By.ID, self.input_username_id).send_keys(username)