Re: [tm-dev] TextCanvas in automatic testing - a method to read the cont

["Oberhuber, Martin" <Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Vaclav,

Thanks for the background information, and for your drive towards test automation!

Code contributions would be welcome to provide the APIs that you need.

Thanks,
Martin
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Martin Oberhuber, SMTS / Product Owner – Development Tools, Wind River

On 29/05/17 12:22, "tm-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Vaclav Kadlcik" <tm-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of vkadlcik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    Hello list!
    
    o.e.tm.terminal has become *the* text interface in several other
    Eclipse projects, e.g.
     - Docker containers' terminal in Linuxtools
     - Debugger Console view in CDT
    therefore its accessibility in automatic testing is more and
    more important. Testing frameworks (for example SWTBot or Red
    Deer) need to locate widgets and perform some actions on them.
    In case of o.e.tm.terminal, these tasks roughly translate to:
    
     1. locating instances of TextCanvas
     2. typing some text
     3. reading the content
    
    There's no major obstacle in achieving 1 and 2. However, 3 isn't
    that easy; at least I cannot see a public method in TextCanvas
    that would provide that. For now, I'm using a "clipboard"
    workaround:
    
      textCanvas.selectAll();
      content = textCanvas.getSelectionText();
    
    which sort of works but is obviously bad and inherently fragile.
    
    I already filed this as a RFE [1] but then it came to me that
    bringing the issue to the mailing list (and adding some
    background) could be a good idea...
    
    Best regards
    Vaclav
    
    [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=517358
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