如何检查网址中的搜索关键字

Question

I am a beginner in Selenium. I wanted to know how I can verify the URL against the keyword I entered in the search bar.

The search page url is https://catalog-mytest.com/search?

When I entered redcar in the search bar and hit enter, the url becomes https://catalog-mytest.com/search?keywords=redcar

Could you guide me on how to write a piece of code that would verify the URL with the keywords? thank you.

Answer 1

There can be two approaches-

Approach-1:

String url = Driver.getCurrentUrl();
boolean passed = url.contains("your keyword here");
if (passed) {
    System.out.println("Test Passed");
} else {
    System.out.println("Test Failed");
    Assert.fail("This message will be printed in stacktrace if the assertion fails.");
}

This is the simplest way of doing this.

Approach-2:

String keyword = Driver.getCurrentUrl().split("?")[1].split("=")[1];
boolean passed = keyword.equals("your keyword here");
if (passed) {
    System.out.println("Test Passed");
} else {
    System.out.println("Test Failed");
    Assert.fail("This message will be printed in stacktrace if the assertion fails.");
}

This approach can be error prone, if the URL does not always contain ? , = in it then the test can fail with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException