Can we use FluentWait for hours selenium webdriver?

Question

Actually I am working on one script in my application there I need to wait till its complete the execution, once complete the execute it will change the status. But I don't know when the execution completes (Dynamic time).

This is web-based application and I am not sure which wait or feature or method I need to use to wait until it satisfy the condition. Below is the sample code I tried (Can not post exact code).

Please suggest me how to proceed with or any suggestion on this.

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.FluentWait;
import com.google.common.base.Function;
public class TestingClass {
 public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
 System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "D:\\SeleniumClass\\src\\libs\\geckodriver.exe");
 WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
 driver.get("https://toolsqa.com/automation-practice-switch-windows/");
 
 FluentWait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<WebDriver>(driver);
 wait.pollingEvery(Duration.ofHours(5));
 wait.withTimeout(Duration.ofMinutes(1));
 
 Function<WebDriver, Boolean> function = new Function<WebDriver, Boolean>()
 {
 public Boolean apply(WebDriver arg0) {
 WebElement element = arg0.findElement(By.id("tabButton"));
 String type = element.getAttribute("type");
 System.out.println("The type is " + type);
 if(type.equals("button"))
 {
 return true;
 }
 return false;
 }
 };
 
 wait.until(function);
 }
}

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Answer 1

The Selenium Webdriver has all kinds of timeouts, waiting for 5 hours isnt going to work like this. I might try something like:

1. Start browser with WebDriver and do some actions
2. Quit browsers
3. Create a while loop that waits a while (e.g. sleep a couple of minutes), then starts the a NEW browser, check if done, if not quit browser and repeat wait.

e.g. dont use Selenium todo the waiting, but your code and keep building a new session and use it only for a short while

Answer 2

Explicit wait is already available for most cases:

WebDriverWait explicit = new WebDriverWait(driver,Duration.ofHours(5));
explicit.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[contains(text(),'COMPOSE')]")));

you can use expected conditions in that :

https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/support/ui/ExpectedConditions.html

if you want to use special condition then use :

package test_suites;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.function.Function;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedCondition;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.FluentWait;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import Utils.excelParcer;
import driversetup.TestBaseClass;
import page_objects.homepage;
public class Testcase1 extends TestBaseClass {
 homepage homepage;
 WebDriver driver;
 @Test(description = "Test case 1 assert True")
 public void loginPageTitleTest2() {
 EdgeOptions options = new EdgeOptions();
 options.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
 // options.setBinary("C:\\Program Files
 // (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe");
 options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems
 options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); // disabling infobars
 options.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); // disabling extensions
 options.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); // applicable to windows os only
 options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage");
 System.setProperty("webdriver.edge.driver", "C:\\Users\\prave\\Downloads\\msedgedriver.exe");
 driver = new EdgeDriver(options);
 FluentWait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<WebDriver>(driver);
 wait.pollingEvery(Duration.ofHours(5));
 wait.withTimeout(Duration.ofMinutes(1));
 WebDriverWait explicit = new WebDriverWait(driver, Duration.ofHours(5));
 explicit.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[contains(text(),'COMPOSE')]")));
 wait.until(this.attributeContains(By.xpath("//button"), "type", "button"));
 }
 @AfterMethod
 public void tearDown() {
 driver.quit();
 }
 
 static ExpectedCondition<Boolean> attributeContains(final By locator, final String attribute, final String value) {
 return new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
 private String currentValue = null;
 @Override
 public Boolean apply(WebDriver driver) {
 return driver.findElement(locator).getAttribute(attribute) == value;
 }
 @Override
 public String toString() {
 return String.format("value found by %s to contain \"%s\". Current value: \"%s\"", locator, value,
 currentValue);
 }
 };
 }
 
}

Note: attributeContains is already available in selenium expected condition the code is just to show you how to create your on fluent wait and expected condition