Cannot cast from List<Functions.Function1<Object,String>> to List<String> creating a list from list of WebElements using Selenium and stream() Java8

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I'm trying to read an HTML table and get all the values into a 2d list using selenium. I'm using streamable to create a List inside another map() method. But I get Cannot cast from List<Functions.Function1<Object,String>> to List<String> error at nested collect method's line

HTML:

+--------+-------+
| r1 v1  | r1 v2 |
+--------+-------+
| r2 v1  | r2 v2 |
+--------+-------+

<html>
    <body>
        <table>
            <tbody>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <div>
                            <span>r1 v1</span>
                        </div>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <div>
                            <span>r1 v2</span>
                        </div>
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <div>
                            <span>r2 v1</span>
                        </div>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <div>
                            <span>r2 v2</span>
                        </div>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </tbody>
        </table>
    </body>
</html>

Java Code:

public List getTableData() {
    return webElement
            .findElements(By.xpath(".//table/tbody/tr"))
            .stream()
            .map(row -> {
                return row
                    .findElements(By.xpath(".//td/div/span"))
                    .stream()
                    .map(cell -> {
                        return cell
                            .getAttribute("innerText");
                    })
                    .collect(Collectors.toList()); // : Cannot cast from List<Functions.Function1<Object,String>> to List<String>
            })
            .collect(Collectors.toList());
}

Why am I gettting this error? How can I create a 2d List out of this table using java streamable?

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-16 10:30:12Z

1

To create a List with the innerText using Java8's stream() and map() you can use the following solution:

cssSelector:

List<String> myTexts = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy(By.cssSelector("table>tbody tr td span"))).stream().map(element->element.getAttribute("innerHTML")).collect(Collectors.toList());

xpath:

List<String> myTexts = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy(By.xpath("//table/tbody//tr//td//span"))).stream().map(element->element.getAttribute("innerHTML")).collect(Collectors.toList());

References: You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

How to extract the dynamic values of the id attributes of the table elements using Selenium and Java

How to print all the button texts within the url using Selenium through Java

answered Aug 16, 2019 at 10:30

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s1n7ax Over a year ago

This way it's creating an array of values right? Right now I'm using for each parent loop and streamable as the inner loop

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