Bug 11125 – [S60] command-line to open URL in Reindeer

• Component: Accessibility
• Status: CLOSED INVALID

[Franklin Davis]

Tools and content developers need to test with latest S60 Webkit. Need a way to invoke Reindeer on a URL from the command line.

This would be similar to how S60 SDK already supports command line for Web Browser for S60. In the emulator, choose Help>User's Guide, then open Tools and Utilities>Command Line Interface>S60 Browsers

Also need to document the above in the wiki in places where a content developer might find it -- e.g. in the page for how to run the browser on Windows, and in the page on how to build the browser.

[Bradley Morrison]

Created attachment 10871 [details]
Implements a command line interface to reindeer

[alan]

Comment on attachment 10871 [details]
Implements a command line interface to reindeer

r=me

[Bradley Morrison]

Comment on attachment 10871 [details]
Implements a command line interface to reindeer

Actually I am rejecting this patch as it will not accept a URL on the command line and open it in Reindeer as expected.

[Bradley Morrison]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (From update of attachment 10871 [details] [edit])
> Actually I am rejecting this patch as it will not accept a URL on the command
> line and open it in Reindeer as expected.

Ok, it turns out that passing a URL from a DOS window all the way down to reindeer. I think there are two possible ways forward:

  - it's obviously possible, as sdk.exe manages to do this. We could talk to the people behind the SDK and see if we can get their source to learn how this is done
  - 3.1 SDK is shortly scheduled for release. This will have an updated browser engine in it.


For future reference, how this works in the above (rejected patch) is:
 1 - Perl calls epoc.exe, everything else runs in the s60 emulator environment
 2 - epoc.exe uses start.rsc, which points at the compiled uilauncher.exe
 3 - uilauncher launches the reindeer exe
 4 - reindeer parses any arguments, opens homepage if none

For the automated testing, step 3 launches reindeer with an extra '-autotest' flag, and this flag is parsed in step 4 and the test suite is executed.

Therefore, it's quite easy to specify static flags such as '-autotest' or even one url to load. However, having fully dynamic URL loading from step 1 all the way down to step 4 will require Perl modifying the uilauncher.cpp source on the fly to add the specified URL, recompiling uilauncher and then proceeding to parse the URL from within Reindeer. I'll mull it over ;-)

[Bradley Morrison]

Bulk update of s60 bugs - tagging and closing.

[Bradley Morrison]

Bulk closing of all s60 platform bugs. 

Sorry for the noise!

[Joel Parks]

re-purposing InTSW keyword for use by QtWebkit team