Is there any way to work with external Data, for example Textfiles ?
With JS there isn´t any option to do I/O, for a good reason.
The purpose is, that i want to validate data from a file or a database with the data represented in the APP (comparison tests)…
Is there any trick for the UI Automation tool ?
Text file
This is something I came up with based on performTaskWithPathArgumentsTimeout method:
var target = UIATarget.localTarget();
var host = target.host();
var result = host.performTaskWithPathArgumentsTimeout(
"/bin/cat", ["/Users/username/Documents/test.txt"], 5)
var content = result.stdout;
UIALogger.logMessage(content);
Content of the test.txt:
Hello World!
This is a test.
And this is how it looks in the Editor Log:
The downside is that you'll have to manually parse file's content.
Database
The only feasible option I can see, is to use this same method in conjunction with Command Line Shell For SQLite. But, alas, I haven't tried this approach, so I can't guarantee it'll work.
Related
I have written a script that is placed on different websites. It puts some html/css there. I have also written a website that enables to configure this html/css for each website.
That's why the script has to load html/css from the database. And that's why I have to keep javascript inside the database, and then use some eval to fire it from the script.
My question is - how can I keep something like this minified in the database, and then display it nicely formatted in some wysiwyg editor?
Sample text:
var el = document.createElement('body');
el.innerHTML = 'foobar';
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(el);
This is what I want to get in my wysiwyg editor, but in DB I want this:
var el = document.createElement('body');el.innerHTML = 'foobar';document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(el);
So I have to somehow convert between those two.
I think you can use a regular expressions to do that (if you just want to place all code at the single line into the DB):
To store from the editor to the database do
var codeToDB = WYSIWYG_value.replace(/\r\n|\r|\n/g,"");
To restore from the database
var codeToWYSIWYG = codeFromDB.replace(/;/g,";\n")
I want to identify few properties during my run and form a json object which I would like to write to a ".json"file and save it on the disk.
var target = UIATarget.localTarget();
var properties = new Object();
var jsonObjectToRecord = {"properties":properties}
jsonObjectToRecord.properties.name = "My App"
UIALogger.logMessage("Pretty Print TEST Log"+jsonObjectToRecord.properties.name);
var str = JSON.stringify(jsonObjectToRecord)
UIALogger.logMessage(str);
// -- CODE TO WRITE THIS JSON TO A FILE AND SAVE ON THE DISK --
I tried :
// Sample code to see if it is possible to write data
// onto some file from my automation script
function WriteToFile()
{
set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
set s = fso.CreateTextFile("/Volumes/DEV/test.txt", True);
s.writeline("HI");
s.writeline("Bye");
s.writeline("-----------------------------");
s.Close();
}
AND
function WriteFile()
{
// Create an instance of StreamWriter to write text to a file.
sw = new StreamWriter("TestFile.txt");
// Add some text to the file.
sw.Write("This is the ");
sw.WriteLine("header for the file.");
sw.WriteLine("-------------------");
// Arbitrary objects can also be written to the file.
sw.Write("The date is: ");
sw.WriteLine(DateTime.Now);
sw.Close();
}
But still unable to read and write data to file from ui automation instruments
Possible Workaround ??
To redirect to the stdout if we can execute a terminal command from my ui automation script. So can we execute a terminal command from the script ?
Haven't Tried :
1. Assuming we can include the library that have those methods and give it a try .
Your assumptions are good, But the XCode UI Automation script is not a full JavaScript.
I don't think you can simply program a normal browser based JavaScript in the XCode UI Automation script.
set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
Is not a JavaScript, it is VBScript which will only work in Microsoft Platforms and testing tools like QTP.
Scripting.FileSystemObject
Is an ActiveX object which only exists in Microsoft Windows
Only few JavaScript functions like basic Math, Array,...etc..Are provided by the Apple JavaScript library, so you are limited to use only the classes provided here https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/UIAutomationRef/
If you want to do more scripting then Try Selenium IOS Driver http://ios-driver.github.io/ios-driver/
Hey so this is something that I was looking into for a project but never fully got around to implementing so this answer will be more of a guide of what to do than step by step copy and paste.
First you're going to need to create a bash script that writes to a file. This can be as simple as
!/bin/bash
echo $1 >> ${filename.json}
Then you call this from inside your Xcode Instruments UIAutomation tool with
var target = UIATarget.localTarget();
var host = target.host();
var result = host.performTaskWithPathArgumentsTimeout("your/script/path", ["Object description in JSON format"], 5);
Then after your automation ends you can load up the file path on your computer to look at the results.
EDIT: This will enable to write to a file line by line but the actual JSON formatting will be up to you. Looking at some examples I don't think it would be difficult to implement but obviously you'll need to give it some thought at first.
I have code in place where I'm using EO.WebBrowser to get the html from a page using the EO.WebView Request:
var cookie = new EO.WebBrowser.Cookie("cookie", "value");
cookie.Path = path;
cookie.Domain = domain;
var options = new BrowserOptions();
options.EnableWebSecurity = false;
Runtime.SetDefaultOptions(options);
var request = new Request(url);
request.Cookies.Add(cookie);
webView.LoadRequestAndWait(request);
Finally I use the following to get the HTML I need:
webView.GetDOMWindow().document.body.outerHTML
My issue is that this is very slow and although I can get it to run it locally, I can not get it to run on Azure server code. Is there a way to do the same thing using HttpWebRequest?
You can use JavaScript:
var data = (string)webView.EvalScript("document.body.outerHTML");
No, HttpWebRequest (and other similar "get me HTML response") methods will only give you HTML itself and will not run JavaScript on the page.
For server side processing of dynamic HTML consider using proper headless internet browser? instead of trying to convince regular IE to work correctly without UI.
the eo.webbrowser runs multi-process like chrome and unsupported by many cloud service environment.
just use WebClient or HttpWebRequest or RestSharp or something like that can do http requests to get the response html.
Is there a possible way to read a local file in JavaScript.
MyFolder:
db.csv
Parse.js
Trying to fetch the contents of file db.csv in Parse.js, But in vain.
Can you share some links where I can get enough knowledge how to read a file.
Running Instruments in Xcode5, with test scripts in .js file where I have to feed in some values from a .csv file.
iOS UIAutomation, apple provides an api for running a task on the target's host.
performTaskWithPathArgumentsTimeout
Using this, we can have a bash script to printout the contents of a file that we wanted to fetch in the first case.
Bash script can be as simple as this for this requirement.
#! /bin/bash
FILE_NAME="$1"
cat $FILE_NAME
Save it as for example FileReader.sh file.
And in your automation script,
var target = UIATarget.localTarget();
var host = target.host();
var result = host.performTaskWithPathArgumentsTimeout(executablePath,[filePath,fileName], 15);
UIALogger.logDebug("exitCode: " + result.exitCode);
UIALogger.logDebug("stdout: " + result.stdout);
UIALogger.logDebug("stderr: " + result.stderr);
where in,
executablePath is where the command need to be executed.
var executablePath = "/bin/sh";
filePath is the location of the created FileReader.sh file. When executed, outputs the content to standard output (in our requirement).
[give full absolute path of the file]
fileName is the actual file to fetch contents from.
[give full absolute path of the file] In my case I had a Contents.csv file, which I had to read.
and the last parameter is the timeout in seconds.
Hope this helps others, trying to fetch contents (reading files) for performing iOS UIAutomation.
References:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/19016573/344798
https://developer.apple.com/library/iOS/documentation/UIAutomation/Reference/UIAHostClassReference/UIAHost/UIAHost.html
If the file is on the same domain as the site you're in, you'd load it with Ajax. If you're using Ajax, it's be something like
$.get('db.csv', function(csvContent){
//process here
});
Just note that the path to the csv file will be relative to the web page you're in, not the JavaScript file.
If you're not using jQuery, you'd have to manually work with an XmlHttpRequest object to do your Ajax call.
And though your question doesn't (seem to) deal with it, if the file is located on a different domain, then you'd have to use either jsonP or CORS.
And, just in case this is your goal, no, you can't, in client side JavaScript open up some sort of Stream and read in a file. That would be a monstrous security vulnerability.
This is a fairly simple function in Illuminator's host functions library:
function readFromFile(path) {
var result = target.host().performTaskWithPathArgumentsTimeout("/bin/cat", [path], 10);
// be verbose if something didn't go well
if (0 != result.exitCode) {
throw new Error("readFromFile failed: " + result.stderr);
}
return result.stdout;
}
If you are using Illuminator, this is host().readFromFile(path).
So similar to ALt-Shift-F in Netbeans, is there a to do this right in the ide in TestComplete? Not sure if this is possible or if anyone can think of a workaround to autoFormat without leaving the TestComplete window.
I'm trying to get the below solution to work with http://jsbeautifier.org/ for javascript / Jscript code in TestComplete.
Thanks
Great question!
There is no built-in function for that. So, we should not expect any solution to be 100% convenient - it is just not a simple task to modify the current script editor contents (if at all possible). So, whatever you do, it will still be some kind of compromise.
In general, the task is three-fold:
Get the current unit code.
Format the code.
Put the code back to the unit.
According to my understanding, items 1 and 3 can be accomplished only by creating a TestComplete plug-in - accessing editors for project nodes is not an easy thing.
UPDATE: silly me! There is a way to access the script editor code - I've updated the below part.
What will help us avoid switching to a different app, are the Script Extensions:
We create a custom Checkpoint in the form of a Script Extension, and install it to TestComplete. As a result, we get a button on the toolbar that we can click to invoke our code.
In the design time action, we call some code that reads the editor contents, then uses external code formatting functionality, and replaces the editor contents with the formatted code.
It would extremely interesting to see the implementations other TestComplete users can suggest! As a start, I am posting a solution that includes using an external web site to format VBScript code (http://www.vbindent.com/). I know that the starter of the post is probably using JScript, but I have not found a JScript formatter yet.
My solution is a simple Script Extension. I can't post a file here, so I will post the code of the two Script Extension files:
Description file:
<!-- Description.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ScriptExtensionGroup>
<Category Name="Checkpoints">
<ScriptExtension Name="VBScript Code Indent" Author="SmartBear Software" Version="0.1" HomePage="smartbear.com">
<Script Name="VBIndent.js">
<DesignTimeAction Name="Indent Current VBScript Unit" Routine="DesignTimeExecute"/>
</Script>
<Description>
Indents VBScript code in the currently active unit.
</Description>
</ScriptExtension>
</Category>
</ScriptExtensionGroup>
Code file:
// VBIndent.js
function DesignTimeExecute()
{
if (CodeEditor.IsEditorActive)
{
var newCode = IndentVBSCode_Through_VBIndent(CodeEditor.Text);
if (null == newCode)
return;
CodeEditor.Text = newCode;
}
}
function IndentVBSCode_Through_VBIndent(codeToIndent)
{
var URL_VBIndent = "http://www.vbindent.com/?indent";
var httpObj = Sys.OleObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP");
httpObj.open("POST", URL_VBIndent, false);
httpObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
httpObj.send("thecode=" + escape(codeToIndent));
var responseText = httpObj.responseText;
// Extract the indented code from the response
var rx = /<textarea name=\"thecode\".*?>((.*\n)*?)<\/textarea>/;
matches = rx.exec(responseText);
if (null == matches)
{
return null;
}
codeIndented = matches[1];
return codeIndented;
}
After you create these files, and put them to something like "\Bin\Extensions\ScriptExtensions\VBIndent", and click "File | Install Script Extensions | Reload", you will see a new "Indent Current VBScript Unit" item in the custom checkpoints drop-down button on the Tools toolbar. Clicking the element will format the VBScript code in the currently active editor.
So, this is to give a clear idea of what a solution can look like. Better suggestions are welcome! Share your thoughts!
FYI
I've done. Based on your posts.
JSFormat.tcx
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B1x_73bHRc2Jcm8wbTJ2dUpZQTQ
To install the extension copy attached file JSFormat.tcx to C:\Program Files (x86)\SmartBear\TestComplete 10\Bin\Extensions\ScriptExtensions
To use view next image:
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B1x_73bHRc2Jc3RuLXFpTnlCSnc
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