Selecting any date from JQuery Date Picker using Selenium Web Driver

Purpose: Selecting any date from JQuery Date Picker using Selenium Web Driver

Automating JQuery Date Picker is not as easy as selecting Date Month Year select options. Following Selenium Web Driver code will help and provide basic logic to automate different JQuery Date Pickers.

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterTest;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
public class JQueryDatePicket {
 WebDriver driver;
 WebElement dateWidget;
 List<WebElement> rows;
 List<WebElement> columns;
 List<String> list = Arrays.asList("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
 // Expected Date, Month and Year
 int expMonth;
 int expYear;
 String expDate = null;
 // Calendar Month and Year
 String calMonth = null;
 String calYear = null;
 boolean dateNotFound;

 @BeforeTest
 public void start(){
 driver = new FirefoxDriver();
 }

 @Test
 public void testJQueryDatePicket() throws InterruptedException{

  driver.get("http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/");
  driver.switchTo().frame(0);
  driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  //Click on textbox of Date so that datepicker will appear
  driver.findElement(By.id("datepicker")).click();
  dateNotFound = true;
  expMonth= 3;
  expYear = 2015;
  expDate = "12";
  while(dateNotFound)
  {
   
   calMonth = driver.findElement(By.className("ui-datepicker-month")).getText();
   calYear = driver.findElement(By.className("ui-datepicker-year")).getText();
   if(list.indexOf(calMonth)+1 == expMonth && (expYear == Integer.parseInt(calYear)))
   {
    selectDate(expDate);
    dateNotFound = false;
   }
   else if(list.indexOf(calMonth)+1 < expMonth && (expYear == Integer.parseInt(calYear)) || expYear > Integer.parseInt(calYear))
   {
    driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='ui-datepicker-div']/div/a[2]/span")).click(); 
   }
   else if(list.indexOf(calMonth)+1 > expMonth && (expYear == Integer.parseInt(calYear)) || expYear < Integer.parseInt(calYear))
   {
    driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='ui-datepicker-div']/div/a[1]/span")).click(); 
   }
  }
  Thread.sleep(3000);
 }
 public void selectDate(String date)
 {
 dateWidget = driver.findElement(By.id("ui-datepicker-div"));
 rows=dateWidget.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
 columns=dateWidget.findElements(By.tagName("td"));

 for (WebElement cell: columns){
  //Selects Date
  if (cell.getText().equals(date)){
   cell.findElement(By.linkText(date)).click();
   break;
  }
 }
 }

 @AfterTest
 public void tearDown()
 {
  driver.quit();
 }
}