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I'm getting an error when trying to pass in a username and password to a form field using sendKeys. Below is my User Class followed by my test class. Does anyone know why the application is not passing a string?

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: keys should be a string

public class User {
    public static String username;
    public static String password;


    public User() {
        this.username = "username";
        this.password = "password";
    }

    public String getUsername(){
        return username;
    }

    public String getPassword(){
        return password;
    }

}

@Test
public void starWebDriver()  {
    driver.get(domainURL.getURL());
    WebElement userInputBox, passInputBox;
    userInputBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='email']"));
    passInputBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='password']"));
    System.out.println("before sending keys");
    userInputBox.sendKeys(User.username);
}
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up vote 5 down vote

You're accessing static properties that are never initialized (null) because the constructor is never called.

You can either set the static properties directly or take out the static context and initialize a User in your test.

Ex.

public class User {
    public String username;
    public String password;


    public User() {
        this.username = "username";
        this.password = "password";
    }

    public String getUsername(){
        return username;
    }

    public String getPassword(){
        return password;
    }

}


@Test
public void starWebDriver()  {
    User user = new User();

    driver.get(domainURL.getURL());
    ...
    userInputBox.sendKeys(user.username);
}
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programming advice: I would even consider changing user.username to user.getUsername() because as OOP approach acessing variable through getter should be safer. Dont ask me why, I am also programming newbie :) –  Pavel Janicek Aug 6 '13 at 8:55
    
perfect. This worked. Thanks all. –  adom Aug 6 '13 at 17:34
up vote 0 down vote

use

userInputBox.sendKeys(String.valueOf(User.username));
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