Hey everyone! My name is Koushik. In this
video we're going to learn how to access the clipboard values from our system into a selenium
script. For example, when I click on this button here so here when I click on this button,
it says that the value has been copied right so here we are getting a small tool tip which
says that it's copied right now if I go to my note pad and if I paste so here I am able
to get this value right which is this value right so what are the values within this text
box we can copy that and we can paste so that is how normally clipboards works, right? So what we are going to do now is we are going
to copy this and maybe we will open this in another tab or I can juut sys out so you get
the basic ideas right now let's do that in two ways one is by Java and another one is
using the javascript now let us understand how this really works under the hood how does
the DOM manipulates and also how we are getting this value, okay? So for that let me give you an example in
this so let so here we have this value right this value is nothing but this exact value
so within this box we have a value feild where we are getting this now if you notice
here this is my actual button right so this button is here now in this we can see that
data clipboard target it's an attribute right so in this attribute we have this has #foo
that means. ID right? In CSS #means id right so here if you see id equal to foo so whenever this guy is going
to click we are going to do some click action it is going to take the value from here that
is it will go and check for the foo ID and it will take the corresponding value okay,
so that is how in JavaScript it works. So what can we do is we can find this button
first, okay, so we can find this button first then we can check which ID is located within
this data clipboard target and based on that we can find the internal time what value it
has so if I get this value then obviously I can open this in new tab, right? So here I'm going to create a main method.
And let me load this website here. So here I'm going to say Chrome Driver driver equal
to new Chrome driver so basic stuff right and here I'm going to say driver dot get to
fetch the URL. And then. I'm going to find this button. I'm going to I have to click on this button,
right? So, let me inspect this. So here it's image tagged on that we have
about that we have button direct. So we have to click on this button, but this button doesn't
have any maybe class to be also do tickets. I believe yes, so we have 34 so that's only
a good idea. So, what can we do this we can write the XPath or maybe the CSS. So let's let's see how to write this CSS for
this. So here it seems like we have ID here example target, so I'm going to copy this
and here. After that. I want the below button right so button. So we got this now, right?
So it's highlighting so obviously I was CSS is correct. So I'm going to copy this and here. I'm going
to say driver dot find element by. CSS and here I am going to paste this right? Now,
let's store this in a web element, so I will say button. Fine. Now what we want? So from
this button, we want to get the. Attribute, right? So this data clipboard target
we want this attribute, right? So I am going to copy this attribute and here I am going
to say button. Dot get that review of this, okay? Now, this is going to return access
string. So I can print this. So let's print and check what is giving us. So attribute. And let me run this. So the idea is very simple we are going to
get the button attribute and based on that attribute we are going to find the equivalent
id on the right, okay? So the element has the value which is going to be our clipboard
value, right? So let me close this and here we can see we got this foo right? Now what we are going to do is we are going
to find this element, okay? So here I'm driver dot find element by CSS and, Here I am. Going
to pass my attribute right because if you see the attribute holds this value right has
that and four right so if I go and inspect in this so here I can see that so it's belong
to that button right now in this button this actually here we are getting matched but this
is actually this value right so here I can check that. Okay, so it's giving us this id foo where
it has this value this is what we have to get right okay, so I'm going to store this
in a web element and I can say this as maybe copy or target. And from the target we want
to get the value right so target. Dot get that review. And within that reboot
I have to pass the value right so here I can pass the value. Which is nothing but this
value right so this value is holding this URL, right so I'm going to take this value
okay, so here I can store this in another string, so let me name this as value and. And let me print this out so just so value.
Again, so first we will print this value to make sure we are getting the same exact what
we needed then we will open this in another another tab. Okay so it ran successfully and here we
can see we got this value right so this is what equivalent of this so when we click on
this button, so if I click on this button, it says that copy now if I go and paste this
here, so obviously it will I can open this in another tab right now, let's understand
how to open this in another tab using javascript because we know that selenium four has this
feature but still, Selenium three does not have this future, so I'm going to trigger the javascript
code here, so let me open my inspect comes on and within the console. I'm just going to type so window. Dot open
so window dot open is the method which needs a string as an argument and if I give the
string here it is going to open in a new tab right so we got the value now what I'm going
to do is I'm going to take the value and I'm going to pass this using execute script so
that I can open a new tab here so here. I'm going to say undriver dot. Executed script
and within the executed script. I have to pass the value right so here I'm going to
say. Window dot open and within the open I have to pass my valuable right now. I cannot
pass directly so I was obviously I have to do the string concatenation here so here I'm
going to save value but if you have noticed within the double quotes we have to give again
a double quotes right so I'm going to use the break single here so slash double slash
mean double quotes and here I'm going to use break, right? Okay, so this for the syntax so here we are
getting this value and here we are using this break so that we can have the double quotes
as well now, let's try to run this. Okay so now it's open the new tab which is
we are getting from the copy but now you might ask me Koushik we are clicking on the copy
and we are getting the value but what you are doing is actually we are taking the value
from the runtime and you are passing it but what if when I click on the button and if
there is any issue on that or there is an any bug on that how do I know that right that's
a valid question so doing this way? It's like technically if you know JavaScript
this is how this is how under the hood it works right but as I tested we have to do
in another base right so the second way might be using robot class where we can use the
control using the cards we can use the control v and all those right but that's not a good
idea because you know, right so whenever if some one is going to open any notepad file
or any text file. So based on that current location it is going
to type so which might fail our test case so the another approach is using the toolkit
right so let me show you that so what I'm going to do is I'm going to just create a
main method here another main method and I'm going to make this as main one. Now I'm going to run this method okay, so
I'm going to use the toolkit here.... which is coming from your java.awt. And here I'm going to get the get default toolkit right now from here we can get the
system clipboard side so get system clipboard and this clipboard is going to return as a
clipboard as a class okay, so let me store that and this is going to clipboard okay,
so we are getting this clipboard now from the clipboard we have to access the data flavor,
that is another method so we have. To access the string value from all clipboard
right so here I'm going to say clipboard. And here I can say get data and within the
data I have to pass another data flavor okay, so here it's going to be data flavor and here
we need this thing right so string data flavor is a static final variable through which I
can get this right now if I store this this is going to return me as an object but here
we can see that this is going to throw us an except ion. I mean compile time error which says that its need
to be handled right so as of now I'm going to use try catch. You can use the throws
as well, so I'm going to use the try catch here and here II'm going to print this
in this side so this out data. So that's it now, let me open my notepad and
I'm going to copy write something and copy so here. I'm going to copy this okay, so right
click and copy and if I run this program, you will see what I have copied. Right so we got the answer like so let me
show you again, so I'm going to just change this and I'm going to select and I'm going
to copy and I'm going to run this program again. Okay, so we got this value right so now let's
try to do this using our test case, so I'm just going to copy everything not maybe everything
we just want this right so we want to click on this so let me bring this here. And here I'm going to say button dot, click
so button dot click. Obviously I need to access that driver so let me copy this second pastry
here instead of getting class variable and all I think is pretty much cool. Okay so we created the object and we also
open this URL and also we are clicking on the button that means obviously the clipboard
has some value right now based on this. I'm going to take this clipboard so using this
clipboard dot get data. I'm getting the string value right now. I have to get this. Once I copy right, so
I'm going to bring this down. That's absolutely fine let's be decrease the font size so that
we can see okay now what we have to do is we are we are going to open this in new tab
right so I'm going to copy this and here I'm going to paste this here and instead of value. I have to pass this as data right so that's
it, so let me run this now. Okay, so we are now able to see it right so
we open we got the value from the clipboard and we are able to open that in a new tab
either you can open in a new tab or you can paste to some text editor or input box anything
right so you can do that whatever you want so in this way, we can access the clipboard
values right so this is a very quick demo. I got this question in Facebook. I saw that
and I thought to answer it but before that someone answered from a blog which has not
this implementation but kind of this simple message where they have used the robot class
but we know that robot class is not that much handy when assigned that we are going to run
our test case in headless mode then obviously robot class is not going to help us right
so using this get system, click board and this data. Figure so obviously it is going to help us
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