869688 - Click works but tap does not on msg textarea in Messages app

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Remote Protocol :: Marionette, defect)

Description

[Bob Silverberg [:bsilverberg]]

I need to tap/click on the element at https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/v1-train/apps/sms/index.html#L130 during a test of the keyboard. I can focus on this element with element.click(), but it does nothing if I try element.tap() or marionette.tap(element).

The test code is at https://github.com/mozilla/gaia-ui-tests/blob/master/gaiatest/tests/test_keyboard.py

Comment 1

[Bob Silverberg [:bsilverberg]]

The test referenced above has been changed to not use the Messages app, but there is another test that demonstrates this same problem: https://github.com/mozilla/gaia-ui-tests/blob/master/gaiatest/tests/test_sms.py

Note that there is a pull request open for that test at the moment, but once it is updated you will see a TODO to switch a click back to a tap, and that's this problem.

Comment 2

[Roy Collings]

On a sidenote: this means you have to use the keyboard to type a text or the 'Send' button is never enabled (you can't just use 'send_keys()').
Currently to get around this I'm using the keyboard for the first letter of the message ("p_msg[:1]" in python), then using "el.send_keys(p_msg[1:])" for the rest because the keyboard's too slow to use for all of it (especially for our 160 character sms test! ;o).

Comment 3

[Bob Silverberg [:bsilverberg]]

Thanks for the tip, Roy. I ended up using send_keys and then just clicking on the text input to enable the send button.

Comment 4

[Zac C (:zac)]

Current test implementation shows that this bug is no longer relevant.