Scrolling tree should be testable
Created attachment 148582 [details] Patch
Please wait for approval from abarth@webkit.org, dglazkov@chromium.org, fishd@chromium.org, jamesr@chromium.org or tkent@chromium.org before submitting, as this patch contains changes to the Chromium public API. See also https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/ChromiumWebKitAPI.
Here's my original patch from bug 89216. It has the problem that the output of scrollingTreeAsText() is very specific to Chromium's implementation of the scrolling tree. Is there a way to make that output more portable, or should we use some entirely other mechanism to test ScrollingCoordinator?
Simon's feedback on bug 89216 was that we should test using the ScrollingTree nodes, but I disagree. The ScrollingTree notion as it exists is very mac-specific (or in particular CoreAnimation-specific) and is not something that can be supported by the chromium or Qt compositor, so I do not think it is appropriate to rely on for cross-platform tests. If ScrollingTree was factored differently - perhaps if it was more of a data type rather than encapsulating a specific threading model - then maybe we could use it elsewhere, but today that's not an option. An alternate approach to dumping a tree would be to dump a serialization of ScrollingCoordinator calls. That part of the interface is shared everywhere.
(In reply to comment #4) > An alternate approach to dumping a tree would be to dump a serialization of ScrollingCoordinator calls. That part of the interface is shared everywhere. I like this idea, although it seems like these logs could grow large fairly quickly depending on the complexity of the page. For instance, even for a blank page the non-fast scrollable region is calculated 4 times. Since we only really care about the end state in tests, I propose we start by dumping just the bits of information we need and work from there. I'll upload a patch that gives the following both with Chromium and the ScrollingTree implementations: - Whether non-main-thread scrolling is supported with the current page contents. - Whether there are registered wheel event handlers on the page. - The non-fast scrollable region of the page. - Number of fixed position layer containers and layers.
Created attachment 148787 [details] Patch - scrollingTreeAsText() now only returns basic high-level facts about the tree. - Added test to verify current (buggy) behavior of fixed position containers.
The scrolling tree is already being tested by layout tests.
Comment on attachment 148787 [details] Patch The work on this bug has ceased, removing the r? flag on the patch.