697492 - Should have a mozdevice API for interacting with remote devices

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: Mozbase, defect)

Description

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

We currently use two copies of the devicemanager API for interacting with remote devices in talos and mozilla-central automation. We should move this API into a mozbase module (I propose we call it mozdevice) and just have one copy of it that's usable by everything.

Comment 1

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

I'm going to take a stab at this.

Comment 2

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

This is checked in here:

https://github.com/wlach/mozbase/tree/mozdevice

Probably no point in doing anything with this until we have an actual use case for this. Likely making talos use mozbase would be the first one (since we may as well replace its built-in devicemanager*.py with this if we're importing other components).

Comment 3

[Jeff Hammel]

Is there any reason not to but it in mozilla/mozbase?

Comment 4

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

(In reply to Jeff Hammel [:jhammel] from comment #3)
> Is there any reason not to but it in mozilla/mozbase?

It's probably going to go out of date quickly, as devicemanagerSUT.py and devicemanagerADB.py change frequently as problems are found in production. We already have to sync these files between two places (m-c and talos), no point in adding a third.

Comment 5

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

Unassigning this from myself for now

Comment 6

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

Ok, it turns out that merging this helps Jeff a bit, so I just did so.

Comment 7

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

Here's the relevant commit: https://github.com/mozilla/mozbase/commit/1f07df828415fe36c27eb6d7574b6555794d3b66