Selenium WebDriver get Current frame before switch

Question

I have a custom action to find elements, by switching in the certain iFrame. It uses the following native action: driver.switchTo().frame(requested_frame) Currently I am switching back to the default content every-time before switch to the exact iframe.

Now I need to improve it's performance by following scnario:

• Check the current content/frame
• if requested_frame=currentFrame then No need to switch
• if requested_frame=null then switch to default (if currentFrame=default then again no need to switch)
• if requested_frame!=null && requested_frame!=currentFrame then switch to default, and switch to requested_frame frame.

So all I need now is to get the Current Frame. Is there any way I can get it?

Answer 1

As the exact answer for my own question "Selenium WebDriver get Current frame" I found the following way to do it.

JavascriptExecutor jsExecutor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
String currentFrame = jsExecutor.executeScript("return self.name");

But in here, the JavascriptExecutor execute the command every time to get the current frame. So if I consider the performance, I would like to choose #Saurabh Gaur's answer as the best answer . I hope my answer would be helpful to someone else :-)

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Adding later

I Just did a small test, with my current version, with a global variable and with the js command help.

[Time collected (ms) on perfoming actions in 4 different elements in 2 nested iframes 1000 times. (4000 find element actions in total) ]

|          | Switch everytime | Global variable | JS command | 
|----------|------------------|-----------------|------------| 
|          | 2023             | 1950            | 2911       | 
|          | 1902             | 2091            | 2992       | 
|          | 2014             | 1974            | 3020       | 
|          | 1934             | 1931            | 3097       | 
|          | 1997             | 1965            | 3180       | 
|----------|------------------|-----------------|------------|
| Average  | 1974             | 1982.2          | 3040       | 

So the current performance with my "Switching default everytime" is not bad at all :D