How to init a WebElement with a wrapped element - selenium

Question

I have followed a tutorial on how to close random opened popups before doing any action :
https://www.vinsguru.com/selenium-webdriver-how-to-handle-annoying-random-popup-alerts/
The idea is to ccreate an ElementProxy class which implements the interface InvocationHandler. so, the proxy’s invoke method would be called first before the actual method is invoked.
So we call checkForPopupAndKill before invoking any action on a WebElement.
Then we wrap our regular WebElement with this proxy object. We basically need a class which has a method to accept a WebElement and returns the WebElement with some wrapper.
In the tutorial they init elements of the page object with wrapper elements, like this:
//first init elements
PageFactory.initElements(driver, pageobject);
//then access all the WebElements and create a wrapper
for(Field f:pageobject.getClass().getDeclaredFields()){
if(f.getType().equals(WebElement.class)){
boolean accessible = f.isAccessible();
f.setAccessible(true);
//reset the webelement with proxy object
f.set(pageobject, ElementGuard.guard((WebElement) f.get(pageobject)));
f.setAccessible(accessible);
}
}
That's because they have declared fileds with the #FindBy annotation in the page object, but in my framework I'm declaring elements as following :
WebElement elt = getSmartElement(By.cssSelector("#my_id"));
My question is, how can I init my element with with the wrapper element ?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can directly use the ElementGuard as shown here which wraps the actual WebElement with proxy.
WebElement elt = ElementGuard.guard(getSmartElement(By.cssSelector("#my_id")));