How to write automation test for ace editor ?

[Madhusudhan Seetharamiah]

Hi 

I wanted to write some automation cases to ace editor implementation in my project. 

How can i add some text to editor dynamically through nightwatch ? anyone have some sample test which can help me out? 

usually setValue is used for textboxs, textarea etc, in nightwatch. Any idea how can i do for a div ?

Thanks in advance. 

[Harutyun Amirjanyan]

You can either use javascript api of ace, or send keyboard events for ctrl-a and then typing the text.

[Rob S]

Using mabl testing, it was difficult to get set up.  Mabl does not allow access to the "window" JavaScript object, which restricted setting up some tests.

I got around it by adding a hidden element, using JavaScript to unhide it, clicking on the button, and the button itself called a function that references ace editor functionality because it has access to ace editor in the document's scope.

Mable doesn't record keyboard events on the ace editor - because it doesn't recognize DIV elements as editable.  The test that I created needed to remove all the current text and use a dropdown on the form to add new text into the Ace Editor.  So I needed a backdoor access to the ace editor object, which wasn't available within the Mable scope because the window object was not available.

[Hao Wu]

.clearValue('textarea')

.setValue('textarea', content ）

works for me with nightwatch