Selenium webdriver explicit wait

Question

I\'m writing some automated tests for using the selenium chrome driver. I trying to write a reusable method that will explicitly wait for elements to appear and then call th

Answer 1

I wrote an explicit wait for my selenium test in the following manner:

I declared my WebElement to be found with an @FindBy annotation added referencing the Id as follows:

@FindBy(how = How.ID, using = "home")
private WebElement home;

Then my method that waits for an element to load was written as follows:

public WebElement isElementLoaded(WebElement elementToBeLoaded) {
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 15);
    WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(elementToBeLoaded));
    return element;
}

This allowed me to reference any element I was waiting for by name that I had annotated with a find by, regardless of the @FindBy method used.