Error with selenium.WebElement.sendKeys()

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I am putting together a small app to perform automated checkouts on a Magento site, using Selenium WebDriver in Java. I'm working on learning Java, so I'm adamant on getting this figured out with Java, and not switching to Ruby or Python. ``` package com.huuginn.seleniumMagento; import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; /** * selenium app for completing checkout in magento * */ public class App { public static void main( String[] args ) { // MagentoCatalog c = new MagentoCatalog(); WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); driver.get("http://plmkt.huuginn.com/"); WebElement searchField = driver.findElement(By.id("search")); System.out.println(searchField.getClass().getName()); searchField.clear(); searchField.sendKeys("sample"); searchField.submit(); } } ``` My getName() line confirms that I am getting the element that I want from the page. I'm getting this error when comp…

Accepted Answer

I have had similar problems with calling `sendKeys()`. The problem usually is, that the signature is a var-ary, that is `CharSequence...` instead of just `CharSequence`.

Of course this should not be a problem with Java 6. My guess would be that your maven compile uses a different compiler setting. Anyways you could change your code to

```
searchField.sendKeys(new String[] { "sample" });
```

to help diagnose the problem.

Error with selenium.WebElement.sendKeys()

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