IOS UI Automation - working with external Data

Question

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 ?

Answer 1

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.