I’m new to Selenide and I’m experiencing an issue with $$x method. Here’s a simple method that should return a collection of elements (store items actually) by an xpath, the defaut implicit wait here is 10 seconds:

public ElementsCollection getSearchResults() {
        if ($$x(searchResultsXpath).isEmpty()) {
            Assertions.fail("Web page doesn't contain search results");
        }
        return $$x(searchResultsXpath);
    }

The issue is that it may return less elements than it should if it happens before all elements are loaded on the page.

Also the thing is that I may not know the actual number of elements, it can be zero or more. If I don’t use any filters on the page (but I may) it’s basically about 16 of elements but I shouldn’t rely on that number anyway.

I know that I can specifically wait for the page to fully load with executing a script, but I’m trying to use only Selenide and, if really need, Selenium.

I know that I might seem ignorant here, but I’m really stuck.

I tried using “should” methods with CollectionConditions but they don’t seem to solve the problem. I’m 60% sure there’s is some condition that may help, but I don’t see it. Is there a way to avoid using Selenium’s presenceOfAllElementsLocated()?

In a nut I want the method to return the actual number of elements that the page will contain after it’s fully loaded, whether there are zero or more elements.