Read data from Properties file in Selenium

Java properties file is used to store project configuration data or settings. In this blog, we will show you how to read and write to/from a properties file.

In this blog we are going to read username and password from properties file(.config) 

Step 1 :- Create config.properties file in Java project 

Navigate to File menu -> New -> Click on File

Step 2:- Write some data in config.properties file

Step 3 :- Create Java class to read properties file 

Example how preform login using properties file in Seleniuim  :

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;


public class ReadProper 
{
  public static Properties prop;
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception  
{
//File file = new File("D://config.properties");  
 //OR
File file = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir")+"//src//config//config.properties");
//OR  we can use this line 
//FileInputStream file= new //FileInputStream(System.getProperty("user.dir")+"//config//config.properties"); 
   FileInputStream fileInput = null;
  try {
   fileInput = new FileInputStream(file);
   //Create properties Class object 
    prop = new Properties();
   prop.load(fileInput);
      }
  
  catch (Exception e)
  {
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
  
  System.out.println("URL ::" + prop.getProperty("URL"));
  System.out.println("User name::" +prop.getProperty("UserName"));
  System.out.println("Password::" +prop.getProperty("Password"));

  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
 driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
 driver.get(prop.getProperty("URL"));
 driver.findElement(By.id("Email")).sendKeys(prop.getProperty("UserName"));
 driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='next']")).click();  
 driver.findElement(By.id("Passwd")).sendKeys(prop.getProperty("Password"));
 driver.findElement(By.id("signIn")).click();

  }

}