[Feature] Access Electron context menu in test

[c3er]

I didn't found any way to access a context menu that is generated in the renderer process via the Remote module.

The renderer JS under test looks like this:

"use strict"

const remote = require("@electron/remote")

function handleContextMenuEvent() {
    const menu = new remote.Menu()
    if (window.getSelection().toString()) {
        menu.append(
            new remote.MenuItem({
                label: "Copy selection",
                role: "copy",
            })
        )
        menu.popup({
            window: remote.getCurrentWindow(),
        })
    }
}

document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
    document.getElementById("text-area").innerText = "This is a test"
})

window.addEventListener("contextmenu", handleContextMenuEvent)

Neither Playwright's nor Electron's documentation seems to show any way to access a menu that is not the application main menu.

I assume after my unsuccessful research that this feature is missing. Maybe such a feature is in the responsibility of the Electron team but I only need this for E2E testing.

I made a demo project with this context menu approach.

[RADDEV]

This would be nice to have!

[eliw00d]

Despite only really being useful for E2E tests, is this something we should bring to the Electron side? Something like Menu.getContextMenu() as a counterpart to Menu.getApplicationMenu() seems like something that would be on their side. If so, I can open an issue if there isn't one already.