Is there a way to trigger custom key presses?

[netoabel]

I'm building an application that simulates a terminal window, and I have some test cases related to command history, for example. For those, I need the test runner to press the arrow up and arrow down keys. I tried several different approaches using .data() but always got "Misalignment" messages (it tries to type <arrow up>). I also need the "Ctrl+C" combination to be triggered and wasn't able to make it happen. The Enter key press works though, both with .data("Enter") and .data("{Enter}")

I didn't find anything related to this in the documentation or any discussions or issues.

Is it possible to do this?

Thanks!

[anerli]

Hi, currently this is not possible. Very soon we are overhauling the test syntax so that you can run custom playwright code (including arbitrary keypresses) - however we'd also like to enable the agent to do this natively soon as well.

[netoabel]

Ok, thanks!

[anerli]

related to #16 as well, some kind of keypress control system

[anerli]

Hey @netoabel, the 0.1.0 update we released enables running custom playwright code so you can execute arbitrary keypresses in your magnitude tests! docs here: https://docs.magnitude.run/integrations/playwright

Example:

import { test } from 'magnitude-test';

test('my test', async ({ ai, page }) => {
  await ai.step("do something");
  await page.keyboard.press('ArrowLeft');
  await ai.check("some check");
});

[netoabel]

Wow, that's great news, thanks!