https://deploy-preview-2575--selenium-dev.netlify.app/tags/events/Recent content in Events on SeleniumHugoenFri, 08 Dec 2023 17:36:12 -0600https://deploy-preview-2575--selenium-dev.netlify.app/blog/2023/java-removal-of-deprecated-events-classes/Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-2575--selenium-dev.netlify.app/blog/2023/java-removal-of-deprecated-events-classes/<h3 id="upgrading-to-webdriverlistener-and-eventfiringdecorator">Upgrading to WebDriverListener and EventFiringDecorator</h3> <p>Decorating the webdriver</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="background-color:#f8f8f8;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-java" data-lang="java"><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#204a87;font-weight:bold">new</span><span style="color:#f8f8f8;text-decoration:underline"> </span><span style="color:#000">EventFiringWebDriver</span><span style="color:#000;font-weight:bold">(</span><span style="color:#000">driver</span><span style="color:#000;font-weight:bold">);</span><span style="color:#f8f8f8;text-decoration:underline"> </span><span style="color:#8f5902;font-style:italic">// Old approach</span><span style="color:#f8f8f8;text-decoration:underline"> </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#f8f8f8;text-decoration:underline"></span><span style="color:#204a87;font-weight:bold">new</span><span style="color:#f8f8f8;text-decoration:underline"> </span><span style="color:#000">EventFiringDecorator</span><span style="color:#000;font-weight:bold">().</span><span style="color:#c4a000">decorate</span><span style="color:#000;font-weight:bold">(</span><span style="color:#000">driver</span><span style="color:#000;font-weight:bold">);</span><span style="color:#f8f8f8;text-decoration:underline"> </span><span style="color:#8f5902;font-style:italic">// New approach</span><span style="color:#f8f8f8;text-decoration:underline"> </span></span></span></code></pre></div><h3 id="implementing-method-wrappers">Implementing method wrappers</h3> <p>One may find the need to have their own custom implementations be used for underlying decorated method calls. An example may be wanting to use your own findElement implementation to store metadata from web elements. One can go down a deep rabbit hole of decorators ( extending WebDriverDecorator and such ), so to keep things simple we will extend EventFiringDecorator since we want a single decorator to handle all our listener events.</p>