Unable to print verify in selenium datepicker value - selenium

Question

I am new to selenium and I am trying to verify selected date in datepicker field but when I am executing this program it is printing else section, which it should not show. Kindly help to know where I am going wrong.
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class tripadviser {
static WebDriver driver;
public static void main(String[] args) {
String start_date = "29-March 2017";
String[] splitter = start_date.split("-");
String start_day = splitter[0];
String start_month = splitter[1];
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\rakesh\\software\\selenium browser\\New folder\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://www.tripadvisor.in/");
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.findElement(By.id("rdoFlights")).click();
WebElement datepicker_ele = driver.findElement(By.id("metaCheckInSpan"));
datepicker_ele.click();
select_date_fun(start_day, start_month);
WebElement check_in_ele = driver.findElement(By.id("checkIn"));
String datepicker_expected_str = "29/3/2017";
if (check_in_ele.getText().equals(datepicker_expected_str)) {
System.out.println("Date selection is done succesfully");
} else {
System.out.println("Something went wrong");
}
driver.close();
}
public static void select_date_fun(String day, String month_year) {
List < WebElement > month_ele = driver.findElements(By.xpath(".//div[#class='calendar']/div[#class='month']/table/thead/tr/th[#class='caption']"));
for (int i = 0; i < month_ele.size(); i++) {
//System.out.println(month_ele.get(i).getText());
if (month_ele.get(i).getText().equals(month_year)) {
List < WebElement > day_ele = driver.findElements(By.xpath(".//div[#class='calendar']/div[#class='month'][1]/table/tbody/tr/td/a"));
for (WebElement j: day_ele) {
//System.out.println(j.getText());
if (j.getText().equals(day)) {
j.click();
return;
}
}
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

My question is resolved by using .getAttribute("value") instead of .getText()