Karate Robot cannot handle the ‘>’ character, yield org.graalvm.polyglot.PolyglotException: Invalid key code

[cloudmadeofcandy]

I have a reproducible code:

`
Feature: Test

Scenario: Test
Given robot { window: '^Notepad', fork: 'notepad', highlight: true, highlightDuration: 500 }
* click('Text Editor')
* input('>>')
`

everything ran as is, except for the final line * input('>>'), which first gave a warning:

[main] WARN com.intuit.karate - cannot resolve char: >

Then an error:
org.graalvm.polyglot.PolyglotException: Invalid key code

• java.desktop/sun.awt.windows.WRobotPeer.keyPress(Native Method)
• java.desktop/java.awt.Robot.keyPress(Robot.java:351)
• com.intuit.karate.robot.RobotBase.input(RobotBase.java:368)
• .:anonymous(Unnamed:1) -

Why can’t I input the symbol ‘>’?

[ptrthomas]

it looks like we may have completely missed adding this here: https://github.com/karatelabs/karate/blob/master/karate-robot/src/main/java/com/intuit/karate/robot/RobotUtils.java

this is a great opportunity for you to submit a PR after confirming it works for you, do you want to try ?

[cloudmadeofcandy]

While I would absolutely love to create a PR and contribute, but due to security policies that are employed by my company, I am not allowed to do so. (Nor is it in my ability to do so, since I don’t have a personal laptop - I am typing on an iPad).

Which is annoying, since I can see that I can just add in another line of code…

I’ll wait for a patch, though :D

[cloudmadeofcandy]

I found the problem, it’s on line 248 of the file you sent: https://github.com/karatelabs/karate/blob/master/karate-robot/src/main/java/com/intuit/karate/robot/RobotUtils.java

Apparently the symbol ‘|’ is repeated twice, on line 240 (the right one) and line 248 (which should be ‘>’)

[ptrthomas]

@cloudmadeofcandy thanks for the details ! when there is a new version, I'll update this ticket so you know. hopefully within a couple of weeks