What is Page Factory?

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What is Page Factory?

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Hello Tom-dale,

Page factory is an implementation of the Page Object Model in Selenium. It provides @FindBy annotation to find web elements. In addition, there is a PageFactory.initElements() method to initialize all web elements defined with @FindBy annotation.

public class SamplePage {
    WebDriver driver;
    @FindBy(id="search")
    WebElement searchTextBox;
   
    @FindBy(name="searchBtn")
    WebElement searchButton;
    //Constructor
    public samplePage(WebDriver driver){
        this.driver = driver;
        //initElements method to initialize all elements
        PageFactory.initElements(driver, this);
    }
    
    //Sample method
    public void search(String searchTerm){
        searchTextBox.sendKeys(searchTerm);  
        searchButton.click();
    }
}