How to wait till the text is present In text field

Question

How to wait until the text is present in the text field, in a web application in Selenium WebDriver.

I have a text field where values come from the database which takes some time to load. Once it is loaded I can proceed further.

Answer 1

Use Waits in Selenium WebDriver to wait for an element to load, refer the example below:

 (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
            public Boolean apply(WebDriver drive) {
                return drive.findElement(...).getText().length() != 0;
            }
        });