Print values in the dropdown

The below script explains you how to get the values in a dropdown and print the values to a notepad or excel sheet


import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;

import org.openqa.selenium.server.*;
import org.testng.annotations.*;


public class Dropdowngoogle {
public Selenium selenium;
public SeleniumServer seleniumserver;

  @BeforeClass
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
RemoteControlConfiguration rc = new RemoteControlConfiguration();
seleniumserver = new SeleniumServer(rc);
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*firefox", "http://");
seleniumserver.start();
selenium.start();
}

@Test
public void testDropdowngoogle()throws Exception {
selenium.open("http://www.google.com");
//click on Advanced Search Window
    selenium.click("link=Advanced Search");  
    selenium.waitForPageToLoad("5000");
     //Print all the available options from the results dropdown in the google advanced search page
    String[] option = selenium.getSelectOptions("name=lr");      
    //The above command returns a array of strings(options)
   //write results to excel and note pad
    File file = new File("C:/Dropdownvalues.xls");//excel
    File file1 = new File("C:/Dropdownvalues.txt");//notepad
    BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));//excel
    BufferedWriter out1 = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file1));//notepad
    out.write("Options in drop down\n");//Excel
    out1.write("Options in drop down\n");//notepad
    for (int i = 0; i < option.length; i++) {
        System.out.println("Option: " + i + " is" + option[i]);
        out.write(""+option[i]);
        out.newLine();      
        out1.write(""+option[i]);
        out1.newLine();      
    }
    out.close();//excel
    out1.close();//notepad
  }
 @AfterClass
 public void tearDown()throws Exception {
selenium.stop();
seleniumserver.stop();

 }
 }