[dotnet] [🚀 Feature] Add WebDriverWait constructor for timeout and interval without a clock

[RenderMichael]

Feature and motivation

Often times, when using WebDriverWait, we want to specify a custom sleep interval. However, it requires users to use the WebDriverWait(IClock clock, IWebDriver driver, TimeSpan timeout, TimeSpan sleepInterval) constructor overload, and users must learn about the IClock interface.

We can add a constructor WebDriverWait(IWebDriver driver, TimeSpan timeout, TimeSpan sleepInterval) which allows users to specify only the values they need.

The Java binding already has this overload

selenium/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/support/ui/WebDriverWait.java

Lines 61 to 63 in d77c827

	public WebDriverWait(WebDriver driver, Duration timeout, Duration sleep) {
	this(driver, timeout, sleep, Clock.systemDefaultZone(), Sleeper.SYSTEM_SLEEPER);
	}

Usage example

var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeout: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(15), sleepInterval: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
IWebElement element = wait.Until(driver => driver.FindElement(By.Name("q")));

[github-actions]

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[nvborisenko]

Support package which is not supported... I think long-term plans just to remove this package:

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/DotNetSeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/SeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers

[RenderMichael]

WebDriverWait is in the support namespace of the normal WebDriver package. I'm not sure what the policy is there.

Also, support is very very much widely used. We could consider it "feature-complete" and avoid unnecessary development, but removing it will be even more painful than removing GetAttribute in my estimation.

[nvborisenko]

I suppose it is leftovers of big deprecation, @jimevans is it right?

[selenium-ci]

Hi, @RenderMichael.

This is related to code in the Support packages. The support packages contain example code that
many users find helpful, but they do not necessarily represent the best practices for using Selenium,
and the Selenium team is not prioritizing work on them right now.
This doesn't mean that we won't ever work on them, but it is not on our roadmap as we push to release Selenium 5.

We actively encourage people to create their own wrapper and helper code that makes sense for them.
If you have any questions, please contact us