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@cwh Thanks for the feedback. As a feature itself it's not that important, but having functionality to do actions on any kind of controls is a must. As this testing framework was kind of abandoned, I believe YaST team doesn't have capacity to do the development and my proposal, which got positive feedback from stakeholders, is to do that development inside of QA team as of now. Complexity was understood from very beginning, whereas I don't have an idea better and smaller than this. Continuing using openQA for all GUI tests is not scalable option.

For YTable in libyui currently neither get nor set is implemented for a bunch of properties:

bool
YTable::setProperty( const std::string & propertyName, const YPropertyValue & val )
{
    propertySet().check( propertyName, val.type() ); // throws exceptions if not found or type mismatch

    if      ( propertyName == YUIProperty_Value         )       return false; // Needs special handling
    else if ( propertyName == YUIProperty_CurrentItem   )       return false; // Needs special handling
    else if ( propertyName == YUIProperty_SelectedItems )       return false; // Needs special handling
    else if ( propertyName == YUIProperty_Items         )       return false; // Needs special handling
    else if ( propertyName == YUIProperty_Cell          )       return false; // Needs special handling
    else if ( propertyName == YUIProperty_Item          )       return false; // Needs special handling
    …

So we need not only to enhance the API.
Changes to libyui itself (including ~-qt and ~-ncurses) are necessary.

Asked Huha about how to proceed. Her pointed me to the UI-interpreter.
Continue investigation.

Code blindness hit me: For tables the currently selected item is already shown in the json output - but a bit different than I expected:

  {
    "labels" : 
    [
      "fe00::0",
      "ipv6-localnet",
      ""
    ],
    "selected" : true
  },

I implemented a select_table API call.

Unfortunately it brought up an libyui bug in a method returning the label of a table cell.
It got fixed but now I need to rebuild also some other packages.

-> WIP

select_table API call to select table rows works now.
https://github.com/libyui/libyui/pull/139

It searches the labels in the first column of the table by value and selects the first match.
curl -X POST 'http://d133.suse.de:14155/widgets?id=table&action=select_table&value=ff02::1'

My next step is to provide always up-to-date rpm to make it available to others.