Selenium Select - Selecting dropdown option by part of the text

Question

The class Selenium Select has 3 methods of different option selection:

1. selectByIndex
2. selectByValue
3. selectByVisibleText

Now,

Answer 1

In latest Selenium version 3.x or 4.x, Select class can be used to select an option from dropdown.

For example: There is a flavour dropdown where it require to select a flavour which contain name as Vanilla.

WebElement flavour = driver.findElement(By.id("attribute178"));
Select select = new Select(flavour);
String expectedFlavourName = "Vanilla";
List<WebElement> allFlavourList = select.getOptions();
for (WebElement option : allFlavourList) {
    String currentFlavourName = option.getText();
    if (currentFlavourName.contains(expectedFlavourName)) {
        select.selectByVisibleText(currentFlavourName);
    }
}

Answer 2

My solution is to use xpath to find options that are children of the select. Any xpath method can be used to find the select; in this example I am finding the select by id.

List<WebElement> options = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//select[@id = 'selectId')]/option"));

for (WebElement option : options) {
    if (option.getText().contains("DOLLAR")) {
        option.click();
        break;
    }
}

After a little more thought I realize the option can be found entirely with xpath:

driver.findElements(By.xpath("//select[@id = 'selectId')]/option[contains(text(), 'DOLLAR')]")).click();