[selenium-developer-activity] Issue 5327 in selenium: SelectElement doe snot work on a page factory element after 2.31.2

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New issue 5327 by ikman...@yahoo.co.uk: SelectElement doe snot work on a
page factory element after 2.31.2
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5327

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Recently upgraded to 2.31.2. Change log mentions that page factory may
give unexpected problems after the update. Reporting the issue so that it
is known to everyone and solution can be found out.
2. A page factory element is defined as
[FindsBy(How = How.Id, Using = "EducationLevelID")] [CacheLookup]
public IWebElement _eEducationLevel = null;

An option is selected as below:
new SelectElement(_eEducationLevel ).SelectByText("text of option to be
selected");

3. Worked perfectly fine before 2.31.2. After 2.31.2, it does not work.
Selenium hangs at the above step. On stopping the test (in Nunit),
unhandled socketexception error is shown. No call stack information is
displayed as no source is available.

3. However below 2 methods still work:
IWebElement _eL1 = driver.FindElement(By.Id("EducationLevelID"));
new SelectElement(_eL1 ).SelectByText("text of option to be selected")

_eEducationLevel.SendKeys("text of option to be selected")


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