Re: [pgAdmin4][RM3936] Feature tests failing intermittently for SQLeditor related test cases

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:05 PM Aditya Toshniwal
<aditya.toshniwal@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 5:01 PM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 7:00 AM Aditya Toshniwal
>> <aditya.toshniwal@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Hackers,
>> >
>> > Attached is the patch to fix failing SQL editor related feature tests.
>> > The failure is occurring mostly because of send_keys function of selenium which sometimes does not input the
completetext. The change will use Codemirror javascript object to set the text.
 
>> >
>> > I have also added new args flag "--modules" which can be used after --pkg where you can test a specific module
fileunder the pkg. This is not so useful for build but definitely helpful for the developers.
 
>>
>> One of the most common failures I see is failure to fill in the
>> details on the Add Server dialogue (it might type half of an entry,
>> then just hang). Should we get rid of all uses of send_keys?
>
> Setting the text using javascript executor can be done. send_keys simulate an actual person,  so if you try to set a
disabledtext box using send_keys, it won't. Places where disabled fields doesn't matter, send_keys can be removed.
 

Can't we just do something like:

if input.disabled == false:
  input.value = 'Foo';
else:
  raise exception ....

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