Selenium webdriver can't get Alert Text

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OS: Windows 10 Selenium Version:2.48 & 2.53 Browser: Chrome/Firefox Browser Version: 49.0.2623.87 (64-bit) /firefox 45

Expected Behavior -

get alert text

Actual Behavior -

Throw an exception like this: FAILED: FireFoxDriver java.lang.ClassCastException: com.google.common.collect.Maps$TransformedEntriesMap cannot be cast to java.lang.String at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver$RemoteAlert.getText(RemoteWebDriver.java:1079) at com.dbyl.tests.getAlert.FireFoxDriver(getAlert.java:54) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:85) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:648) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:834) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:1142) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:124) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:108) at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:771) at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:621) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:357) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:352) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:310) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:259) at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52) at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1176) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1101) at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1009) at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.run(RemoteTestNG.java:111) at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:204) at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:175)

Steps to reproduce -

my test file is three html my test code:

driver =DriverFactory.getFirefoxDriver(); driver.get("file:///G:/html/index.html"); driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS); driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS); driver.manage().window().maximize(); WebElement target1=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@id='target1']")); String currentWindow=driver.getWindowHandle(); String target1Window = null; target1.click(); Set<String> windows = driver.getWindowHandles(); for(String window:windows) { if(!currentWindow.equals(window)) { target1Window=window; driver.switchTo().window(window); } } WebElement target2 = driver.findElement(By.id("target2")); target2.click(); windows = driver.getWindowHandles(); for(String window:windows) { if(!currentWindow.equals(window)&& !target1Window.equals(window) ) { driver.switchTo().window(window); } } Alert alert=driver.switchTo().alert(); System.out.println(alert.getText()); alert.accept();

all the html:

html.zip

[universaljegan]

Hi tobecrazy…

Refresh the page on the second browser, and click the previous alert. Then read the text of new alert, you can get.

driver.navigate().refresh(); driver.switchTo().alert().accept(); //This is the first alert, when browser 2 opens Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert(); String browserAlertMsg = alert.getText(); //This is the second alert, when your refresh page, here you can get.

Hope this helps.

[barancev]

This scenario works well in geckodriver (tested in Firefox 57 with geckodriver 0.19). It will not be fixed in legacy Firefox driver (unless someone provides a pull-request with a patch). Please upgrade to use geckodriver.