How to verify whether a link read from file is present on webpage or not? - file-io

Question

I am new at automation. I have to write a code as follow
I have to read around 10 url's from a file and store it into one hashtable then I need to read one by one url's from hashtable and while iterating through this url I also need to read one more file conataining 3 url's and search them on webpage . If present need to click that link
I have written following code but I am not getting the logic for checking whether a link from file is present on webpage or not...
Please check my code and help me to solve/improve it.
Main test script
package com.samaritan.automation;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Set;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class FirstScript {
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
String data;
CommonControllers commonControll = null;
Hashtable<String, String> recruiters = null;
#Test
public void script() throws Exception {
CommonControllers commonControll = new CommonControllers();
recruiters = new Hashtable<String,String>();
recruiters = commonControll.readDataFromFile("D:/eRecruiters/_Recruiters.properties");
Set<String> keys = recruiters.keySet();
for(String key: keys){
/**HERE I NEED TO WRITE THE FUNCTION TO VERIFY WHETHER THE LINK READ FROM SECOND FILE IS PRESENT ON WEBPAGE OR NOT**/
}
}
}
and function to read from file into hashtable
public Hashtable<String, String> readDataFromFile(String fileName) {
try {
FileReader fr = new FileReader(fileName);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
String strLine = null;
String []prop = null;
while((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
prop = strLine.split("\t");
recruiters.put(prop[0], prop[1]);
}
br.close();
fr.close();
}catch(Exception exception) {
System.out.println("Unable to read data from recruiter file: " + exception.getMessage());
}
return recruiters;
}
PLease take a look! thanks

Answer 1

Priya...You can use
if(isElementPresent(By.linkText(LinkTextFoundFromFile))){
//code when link text present there
}else {
//code for not finding the link
}
Now the following method is generalized for any By object you can use like By.xpath, By.id etc.
private boolean isElementPresent(By by) {
try {
driver.findElement(by);
return true;
} catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
return false;
}
}