@aerokit/test 0.0.0-stage → 15.0.0

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package/README.md

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-# Temporary Holding Version
+# @aerokit/test (published as the `@aerokit/sdk/test` subpath)
 
-This version is a temporary placeholder for this package. An operational version to replace this has been submitted for review and is awaiting a staged release.
+> **Publishing note:** this package is NOT published standalone - the release workflow bundles
+> `src/` into the `@aerokit/sdk` npm package as its `./test` subpath export (the npm token cannot
+> create new packages in the scope). Consumers depend on `@aerokit/sdk` and import
+> `@aerokit/sdk/test` / `@aerokit/sdk/test/fixtures`; this folder stays the source of truth and the
+> local-development identity (`file:` installs during development resolve `@aerokit/test` directly).
+
+Generic [Playwright](https://playwright.dev) runner that executes an intent module's generated
+`<name>.test` manifest against a running Eclipse Dirigible instance. The manifest (emitted by the
+`AppTestIntentGenerator` in `engine-intent`, alongside `.edm`/`.model`/`.bpmn`/...) says WHAT the
+app promises — entities, layouts, fields, seeds, languages; this package knows HOW to verify a
+promise against the generated Harmonia UI and the reused REST controllers. So one runner, versioned
+alongside the templates whose markup it drives, checks every generated app the same way.
+
+This is the app-integration-test surface (drives a browser + the REST layer from outside the
+instance). It is distinct from `@aerokit/sdk/junit`, the in-instance server-side unit-test facade.
+
+## Use from a module
+
+A module keeps a tiny `test/` harness at its **repo root** (outside the published project folder, so
+it never enters the registry or the npm package):
+
+```js
+// test/app.spec.js
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { runTest } from '@aerokit/sdk/test';
+
+runTest(fileURLToPath(new URL('../<project>/<name>.test', import.meta.url)));
+```
+
+```json
+// test/package.json
+{
+  "type": "module",
+  "scripts": { "test": "playwright test" },
+  "devDependencies": { "@aerokit/test": "*", "@playwright/test": "^1.45" }
+}
+```
+
+```
+BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080 npm test        # defaults: admin/admin, installed Chrome
+APPTEST_SHELL=1 npm test                       # also assert the shared-shell menu item
+APPTEST_A11Y=strict npm test                   # fail on serious/critical accessibility violations
+```
+
+Env: `BASE_URL` (default `http://localhost:8080`), `APPTEST_USERNAME`/`APPTEST_PASSWORD`
+(default `admin`/`admin`), `APPTEST_SHELL` (opt-in shared-shell flow), `APPTEST_A11Y` (`report`
+default, `strict`, `off` - the accessibility flow).
+
+## Flows per entity
+
+- **list** — the shell breadcrumb naming the list by its plural label, the declared columns, and
+  (when `expectSeedData`) a row. An entity whose manifest carries `list` renders exactly those
+  columns, in order, and a field left off it must have no header at all; without `list` the columns
+  are the fields whose `major` is not `false`.
+- **crud** — UI create → filter → row appears; edit via the row menu → save (a `document` saves in
+  place, so the walk leaves through Cancel); delete via the row menu → confirm → gone. A walk
+  that fails halfway still removes its test row over REST. An entity without a `route` (a composition
+  child with no page of its own) has no list, crud, multilingual or shell flow.
+- **rest** — the same CRUD over the generated Java controllers via `APIRequestContext` (isolates
+  backend vs UI failures), asserting the manifest's field names bind and delete yields 404 — or,
+  for an entity a `whenDeleted: refuse` process guards, that the refused record is still served.
+- **multilingual** — switch the shared language key, reload, a seeded row shows its translated name.
+  The assertion waits for the list's own data GET and allows 15 s; a failure names the
+  `Accept-Language` that GET sent, whether its body carried the expected word, and the table's first
+  row, so a slow render reads differently from a missing translation.
+- **my** — the personal (my) surface WIRE contract, when the manifest marks an entity `personal`:
+  create through the scoped `<Entity>MyController` (owner FK forced server-side), every `sensitive`
+  field null on the personal wire, the own row in the personal list, foreign rows 404 (when the
+  owner relation is optional), own-row delete. Skips with a pointer when the test user has no
+  identity mapping (seed the dev identity row). Personal *UI* parity (resolved labels, chat,
+  calendar on the Personal shell) is deliberately not asserted yet — it tracks the personal-template
+  parity fixes.
+- **shell** (opt-in) — the shared application shell's nav item opens the module SPA in its iframe.
+- **a11y** — axe-core scans the list page and the create form against WCAG 2.1 A/AA and attaches
+  each page's result (`axe-<Entity>-<page>.json`) to the test report. `APPTEST_A11Y=report`
+  (default) only reports - a module's first release; `strict` also fails on a `serious` or
+  `critical` violation; `off` skips it. Needs `@axe-core/playwright` in the harness
+  `devDependencies` (the flow skips itself without it). Contrast against Harmonia's own
+  `--primary` is not counted in strict mode: the default palette misses 4.5:1 there, which the
+  component library fixes; every other contrast failure is.
+
+Test records carry an `APPTEST-` prefix and are removed in teardown; seed data is never mutated.
+A field the app owns rather than the user — a `number:` series, a calculated or `readOnly:` value —
+is never written or flipped by a flow (the manifest marks it `readOnly`). A relation the form renders
+read-only — a `calculatedActionOnUpdate`, a platform-owned FK — carries the same flag and is never
+picked in the UI. A field declaring a
+`pattern:` gets a value of that shape rather than the marker string. An optional `pattern:` field
+whose shape none of the sample candidates has (an IBAN, say) is left empty; a required one keeps the
+marker, so the controller's 400 names the field. Relations an `agree` check names are picked so
+their targets agree; a composite `uniqueKeys` entry is given a relation combination no live row
+carries, and the rest and crud flows skip with the key named when every combination tried is taken.
+A relation carrying `pickable` is sampled only from the rows its rule admits — the chooser offers no
+other, so a record built from one would never save — and one carrying `forbiddenTarget` only from
+rows the record's own `forbidWhen` does not refuse, which is what the REST flow needs, having no
+picker to read. When no row is left, a required relation fails naming the rule's own message rather
+than "no rows".
+
+## Custom UI hooks
+
+`runTest(manifest, { extend })` (`runAppTest` remains a deprecated alias):
+
+- `widgets: { '<widget>': async (page, field, value) => ... }` — custom widget fillers.
+- `entities: { <Entity>: { skip: ['delete'], beforeCreate, afterCreate } }` — per-entity hooks.
+
+Hand-written specs live in `test/custom/*.spec.js` and import `@aerokit/test/fixtures`
+(pre-logged-in `test`, an `api` client, `expect`) so login/baseURL/cleanup come free.

package/package.json

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 {
   "name": "@aerokit/test",
-  "version": "0.0.0-stage",
-  "stub": true,
-  "description": "Temporary package placeholder for staged publishing"
-}
+  "version": "15.0.0",
+  "description": "Generic Playwright runner that executes an intent module's generated <name>.test manifest against a running Eclipse Dirigible instance",
+  "license": "EPL-2.0",
+  "type": "module",
+  "main": "src/index.js",
+  "exports": {
+    ".": "./src/index.js",
+    "./fixtures": "./src/fixtures.js"
+  },
+  "files": [
+    "src"
+  ],
+  "keywords": [
+    "dirigible",
+    "playwright",
+    "integration-test",
+    "intent",
+    "low-code"
+  ],
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "https://github.com/eclipse-dirigible/dirigible.git",
+    "directory": "npm/test"
+  },
+  "peerDependencies": {
+    "@playwright/test": ">=1.45",
+    "@axe-core/playwright": ">=4.10"
+  },
+  "peerDependenciesMeta": {
+    "@axe-core/playwright": {
+      "optional": true
+    }
+  }
+}

package/src/api.js

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+// Thin REST client over the generated Java controllers described by the manifest.
+export function makeApi(request, manifest) {
+  const url = (entity, suffix = '') => manifest.restBase + entity.api + suffix;
+
+  async function asJson(response) {
+    if (!response.ok()) {
+      // APIResponse has no request(); report url + status + body
+      throw new Error(`${response.url()} -> ${response.status()} ${await response.text()}`);
+    }
+    const text = await response.text();
+    return text ? JSON.parse(text) : undefined;
+  }
+
+  return {
+    list: (entity, limit = 20) => request.get(url(entity, `?$limit=${limit}`)).then(asJson),
+    // absolute controller path (a cross-model relation target owned by another module)
+    listPath: (path, limit = 20) => request.get(`${path}?$limit=${limit}`).then(asJson),
+    getPath: (path) => request.get(path).then(asJson),
+    count: (entity) => request.get(url(entity, '/count')).then(asJson).then((body) => (typeof body === 'number' ? body : body.count)),
+    get: (entity, id) => request.get(url(entity, '/' + id)).then(asJson),
+    getResponse: (entity, id) => request.get(url(entity, '/' + id)),
+    // the generated controller's filtered read (what the list's filters POST): [{ propertyName, operator, value }]
+    search: (entity, conditions) => request.post(url(entity, '/search'), { data: { conditions } }).then(asJson),
+    create: (entity, data) => request.post(url(entity), { data }).then(asJson),
+    update: (entity, id, data) => request.put(url(entity, '/' + id), { data }).then(asJson),
+    // Answers whether the row is gone. A record whose process declares `whenDeleted: refuse` is
+    // REFUSED with 409 while that instance runs (dirigible #7074) - the guard doing its job, not a
+    // failure, so the caller is told rather than thrown at and its cleanup completes either way.
+    // Every other failing status still throws.
+    remove: async (entity, id) => {
+      const response = await request.delete(url(entity, '/' + id));
+      if (response.status() === 409 && entity.deleteGuardedByProcess?.length) {
+        return false;
+      }
+      if (!response.ok()) {
+        throw new Error(`DELETE ${response.url()} -> ${response.status()} ${await response.text()}`);
+      }
+      return true;
+    },
+  };
+}

package/src/env.js

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+export const BASE_URL = process.env.BASE_URL ?? 'http://localhost:8080';
+export const USERNAME = process.env.APPTEST_USERNAME ?? 'admin';
+export const PASSWORD = process.env.APPTEST_PASSWORD ?? 'admin';

package/src/fixtures.js

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+import { expect, test as base } from '@playwright/test';
+import { BASE_URL } from './env.js';
+import { login } from './session.js';
+
+// Pre-authenticated Playwright test:
+// - authState: worker-scoped form login, one session per worker
+// - storageState: every page starts logged in
+// - api: an APIRequestContext carrying the same session, for REST-level checks
+export const test = base.extend({
+  authState: [
+    async ({ browser }, use) => {
+      await use(await login(browser));
+    },
+    { scope: 'worker' },
+  ],
+  storageState: async ({ authState }, use) => {
+    await use(authState);
+  },
+  api: async ({ playwright, authState }, use) => {
+    const request = await playwright.request.newContext({
+      baseURL: BASE_URL,
+      storageState: authState,
+    });
+    await use(request);
+    await request.dispose();
+  },
+});
+
+export { expect };

package/src/flows/a11y.js

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+import { expect, test } from '../fixtures.js';
+import { CALENDAR_OR_SLOTS, listCrumb } from './list.js';
+
+// The WCAG 2.1 level AA conformance rules, and the level A ones it includes (dirigible #7645).
+const WCAG_21_AA = ['wcag2a', 'wcag2aa', 'wcag21a', 'wcag21aa'];
+const ENFORCED_IMPACTS = new Set(['serious', 'critical']);
+
+// report (default): attach every page's axe result to the test report and pass - the first
+// release of a module. strict: also fail on a serious or critical violation. off: no scan.
+const MODE = process.env.APPTEST_A11Y ?? 'report';
+
+// Harmonia's default palette fails contrast against its own --primary (white on it, and it as link
+// text in dark mode); that is fixed in the component library, so strict mode does not fail an app
+// for it. Any other contrast failure still counts.
+const PRIMARY_COLOR = () => {
+  const probe = document.createElement('div');
+  probe.style.color = 'var(--primary)';
+  document.body.appendChild(probe);
+  const color = getComputedStyle(probe).color;
+  probe.remove();
+  const context = document.createElement('canvas').getContext('2d');
+  context.fillStyle = color;
+  context.fillRect(0, 0, 1, 1);
+  const [r, g, b] = context.getImageData(0, 0, 1, 1).data;
+  return '#' + [r, g, b].map((v) => v.toString(16).padStart(2, '0')).join('');
+};
+
+function sameColor(measured, expected) {
+  if (typeof measured !== 'string' || measured.length !== 7 || !expected) return false;
+  for (let channel = 1; channel < 7; channel += 2) {
+    const a = parseInt(measured.slice(channel, channel + 2), 16);
+    const b = parseInt(expected.slice(channel, channel + 2), 16);
+    if (Math.abs(a - b) > 2) return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
+function onPrimary(node, primary) {
+  return (node.any ?? []).some((check) => sameColor(check.data?.fgColor, primary) || sameColor(check.data?.bgColor, primary));
+}
+
+async function axeBuilder() {
+  try {
+    return (await import('@axe-core/playwright')).default;
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+// The list page and the create form of every entity with a page of its own, scanned by axe-core.
+export function a11yFlow(manifest, entity) {
+  if (MODE === 'off' || !entity.route) return;
+  test(`${entity.name}: list and form pages pass axe-core (WCAG 2.1 AA)`, async ({ page }, testInfo) => {
+    const AxeBuilder = await axeBuilder();
+    test.skip(!AxeBuilder, 'add @axe-core/playwright to the harness devDependencies to run the accessibility flow');
+
+    const calendar = entity.layout === 'calendar' || entity.layout === 'slots';
+    const pages = [['list', entity.route, () => (calendar ? page.locator(CALENDAR_OR_SLOTS).first() : listCrumb(page, entity))]];
+    if (!calendar && !entity.hierarchy) {
+      pages.push(['form', entity.route + '/create', () => page.locator('input, select, textarea').filter({ visible: true }).first()]);
+    }
+
+    const findings = [];
+    for (const [name, route, ready] of pages) {
+      await page.goto(manifest.standaloneShell + route);
+      await expect(ready()).toBeVisible();
+      const results = await new AxeBuilder({ page }).withTags(WCAG_21_AA).analyze();
+      await testInfo.attach(`axe-${entity.name}-${name}.json`, {
+        body: JSON.stringify(results, null, 2),
+        contentType: 'application/json',
+      });
+      const primary = await page.evaluate(PRIMARY_COLOR);
+      for (const violation of results.violations) {
+        if (!ENFORCED_IMPACTS.has(violation.impact)) continue;
+        const nodes = violation.nodes.filter((node) => !(violation.id === 'color-contrast' && onPrimary(node, primary)));
+        if (nodes.length) {
+          const targets = nodes.slice(0, 5).map((node) => node.target.join(' ')).join(', ');
+          findings.push(`${name}: [${violation.impact}] ${violation.id} - ${violation.help} (${nodes.length} elements: ${targets})`);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    if (MODE === 'strict') {
+      expect(findings, 'serious or critical WCAG 2.1 AA violations:\n' + findings.join('\n')).toEqual([]);
+    }
+  });
+}