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.
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