How to Select Date From Datepicker in Selenium Webdriver Using Java

This article will explore a test case demonstrating how to select a date from a datepicker in Selenium Webdriver using Java.

//Opening Chrome Browser
package browser;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class BrowserSelection 
{
static WebDriver driver;

public static WebDriver usingChrome()
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "E:\\SeleniumLibs\\\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe"); 
driver = new ChromeDriver(); 
driver.manage().window().maximize();
return driver;
} 
}

//Test to select a desired date in the datepicker for departure

package makemytripdatepicker;

import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import browser.BrowserSelection;

public class MakeMyTripDateTest 
{
WebDriver driver;

@BeforeMethod
public void openBrowser()
{ 

driver = BrowserSelection.usingChrome(); 
}

@Test
public void tripDetails() throws InterruptedException, AWTException
{

//Modify Wait time as per the Network Ability in the Thread Sleep method

driver.get("https://www.makemytrip.com/"); 
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
Thread.sleep(5000);

try
{ 

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='hp-widget__depart']")).click();
Thread.sleep(2000);

Date d = new Date(1);
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMMM-yyyy");
String date = formatter.format(d);
String splitter[] = date.split("-");
String month_year = splitter[1];
String day = splitter[0]; 
System.out.println(month_year);
System.out.println(day);


selectDate(month_year,day); 
Thread.sleep(3000);


public void selectDate(String month_year, String select_day) throws InterruptedException
{ 
List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='ui-datepicker-title']/span[1]"));

for (int i=0; i<elements.size();i++)
{
System.out.println(elements.get(i).getText());

//Selecting the month
if(elements.get(i).getText().equals(month_year))
{ 

//Selecting the date 
List<WebElement> days = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='ui-datepicker-inline ui-datepicker ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-helper-clearfix ui-corner-all ui-datepicker-multi ui-datepicker-multi-2']/div[2]/table/tbody/tr/td/a"));

for (WebElement d:days)
{ 
System.out.println(d.getText());
if(d.getText().equals(select_day))
{
d.click();
Thread.sleep(10000);
return;
}
} 

} 

}
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='ui-datepicker-inline ui-datepicker ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-helper-clearfix ui-corner-all ui-datepicker-multi ui-datepicker-multi-2']/div[2]/div/a/span")).click();
selectDate(month_year,select_day);

}

@AfterMethod
public void closeBrowser()
{
driver.quit();
}

}