Automation of date widget having month/year navigation only through Prev', 'Next' buttons

In this post I will give you a code how to automate selection of date from a date widget neither has the date input and also direct navigation to the months/years. This widget only has the 'Prev', 'Next' buttons to navigate to next months/previous months.

Please find the code below:

public class DateWidgetSample {

public static void main(String args[]){

 String date1="12/04/2016";

 String date2="12/12/2015";

 SimpleDateFormat fmt= new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");

 Date datevar1 = null;

 Date datevar2 = null;

 try {

  datevar1 = fmt.parse(date1);

  datevar2 = fmt.parse(date2);

 } catch (ParseException e) {

  // TODO Auto-generated catch block

  e.printStackTrace();

 }

 Calendar cal1 = Calendar.getInstance();

 Calendar cal2 = Calendar.getInstance();

 cal1.setTime(datevar1);

 cal2.setTime(datevar2);

 cal1.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);

 cal2.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);

 int diffYear = cal2.get(Calendar.YEAR) - cal1.get(Calendar.YEAR);

 int diffMonth = diffYear * 12 + cal2.get(Calendar.MONTH) - cal1.get(Calendar.MONTH);

 System.out.println(diffMonth);

}

}

Result output is difference of months.

Next you have to do is have a for loop to click the previous/next button based on the number of months obtained in the output. If the number is a positive value, ask to click the next button. If it's a negative value, click the Previous button. That's all. Check code below.

if(diffMonth>0){

for(int i=0; i<diffMonth; i++){

driver.findElement(By.id("nextbtn").click();

}

}

if(diffMonth<0){

for(int j=0; j<diffMonth; j++){

driver.findElement(By.id("previousbtn").click();

}

}