action #133451: Backend dies when passing non-US-keyboard letters to the 'type_string' function size:M - openQA Project - openSUSE Project Management Tool

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Backend dies when passing non-US-keyboard letters to the 'type_string' function size:M

Added by okurz 10 months ago. Updated 9 months ago.

Status:

Resolved

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

livdywan

Category:

Feature requests

Target version:

Ready

Start date:

2023-07-25

Due date:

2023-08-11

% Done:

Estimated time:

Description

Motivation¶

The backend process dies after passing russian language characters to the 'type_string' function, see #133319

Acceptance criteria¶

AC1: os-autoinst provides explicit feedback about language support, either proper unicode support or clear error message

Suggestions¶

Read how https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/tree/master/consoles/VNC.pm currently works
Read qemu docs about emulated keyboards because that is what is important for what we need to pass to the test systems
Of course don't add support for individual characters. Try to provide a generic support (or "more generic"). If not possible then at least provide a clear error message what encodings or what keyboard keys are supported
If no better solution is found fall back to plain old try/catch and "unknown letter" error message
Check pending PRs for extending support for other keyboard layouts

Related issues 2 (2 open — 0 closed)

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Updated by okurz 10 months ago

Copied from action #133319: Backend dies when passing russian letters to the 'type_string' function added

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Updated by okurz 10 months ago

Subject changed from Backend dies when passing russian letters to the 'type_string' function to Backend dies when passing non-US-keyboard letters to the 'type_string' function size:M

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Updated by livdywan 10 months ago

Status changed from Workable to In Progress
Assignee set to livdywan

I'll be doing some reading first. Let's see what seems feasible.

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Updated by openqa_review 9 months ago

Due date set to 2023-08-11

Setting due date based on mean cycle time of SUSE QE Tools

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Updated by tinita 9 months ago

I played a bit to get familiar with how this is currently working.
So far I wasn't even manually able to send a german umlaut, e.g. "ä".
In the function consoles::VNC::map_and_send_key I added push @events, (195, 164); because that's the bytes for ä ("\303\244"), and that's also what xev is telling me.
I added -k de to the qemu-system-x86_64 arguments in backend::qemu::start_qemu.
Things like systemctl showed up as szstemctl as expected, but I wasn't able to find out which keycode to send for ä.