[🚀 Feature]: Methods `Select.select*()` should NOT allow selecting DISABLED option (or select)

Feature and motivation

Currently Select methods work even the option is disabled. Or select is disabled.

I suggest these selectByFoo methods should throw an exception.

Usage example

new Select(element).selectByVisibleText("fish");

Pull request

see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/10814

[papegaaij]

I think it makes perfect sense for Select to check if the select element and its options are enabled, but only when interaction is requested on these elements. A select does have a selection when its disabled. The original request was about not being able to select disabled options, which seems like a valid request to me. The change does not implement that request. It is still possible to select disabled options, but now it is no longer possible to instantiate a Select when the select is disable at that moment. Even worse, it is now possible to operate on a disabled select, when it is disabled after instantiation of the Select. This wasn’t possible before.

This change broke our tests, because we use Select to read the selected value of a select. In some cases the element is disabled. I had to change the code like this, which is not an improvement IMHO:

- return new Select(field).getFirstSelectedOption().getAttribute("value");
+ return field.findElements(By.tagName("option"))
+     .stream()
+     .filter(WebElement::isSelected)
+     .findFirst()
+     .get()
+     .getAttribute("value");

[ShaheedHaque]

I think it’s a totally valid case to check what option is selected in the disabled mode. The problem is that in Python the change was added inside the constructor. There is no way to check the options, because I cannot initiate an object.

@titusfortner, @asolntsev I have a variant of the problem noted by @volnoboy-broadcom; I just want to examine the value of a disabled <select>, and the NotImplementedError(“Select element is disabled and may not be used.”) in the constructor prevents this. I too would like this part of 0eb286a8fd of reverted/redone.