I have a select control on my site. I am using page objects to interact with the page. If I do (with the first 2 lines under my class and the selectByValue in my method)

@FindBy(id="foo")
private Select foo;

foo.selectByValue("myValue");

It fails with a null pointer. I also tried without the @FindBy.

Now if I do this in my method it all works fine and selects the correct item

Select foo = new Select(sDriver.findElement(By.id("foo")));
foo.selectByValue("myValue");

Here is the actual web snippet for that control (edited to protect the innocent)

<select id="foo" name="service_name">
    <option selected="selected" value="one">one</option>
    <option value="two">two</option>
    <option value="three">three</option>
</select>

Let me say that I have a work around for my issue but I don't get why the "normal" path is not working.

java selenium-webdriver webdriver
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