uia_type_string fails to input the correct case or incorrectly touches the wrong character on _devices_

[jmoody]

this is new. we have seen problems with the keyboard_enter_char, but with uia_type_string, we have not had problems.

# arrows added for emphasis
expected: 'l!f7F"]E:yM6l#,mE!J-y)~d_ScJi ==> E <== %~.>gR>!iOYbB^h-^$egS'
   found: 'l!f7F"]E:yM6l#,mE!J-y)~d_ScJi ==> e <== %~.>gR>!iOYbB^h-^$egS'

expected: 'Kz?+dc@R#z^/qe##r+oNB+€:MrwBQ~.JAMRr':pW.,_;MN>|#{%'
   found: 'Kz?+dc@R#z^/qe##r+oNB+€:MrwBQ~C'

expected: 'bBg7¥a ==> i <== ,P!xh<n0'e^@a0=2><=_gn,$u@(9xd.43]E#vZ$HHdqh' 
   found: 'bBg7¥q ==> I <== ,P!xh<n0'e^@a0=2><=_gn,$u@(9xd.43]E#vZ$HHdqh'

expected: '}= ==> k <== ,Gk-f"&7{2&ZRq$2zyzsq#y.R,?<R)T;w,xQYm€*3!,Nu?PY' 
   found: '}= ==> I <== ,Gk-f"&7{2&ZRq$2zyzsq#y.R,?<R)T;a,xQYm€*3!,Nu?PY'

for issue #259 i tested 100,000's of key strokes and found no errors on the simulator.

UPDATE: Andrew Reed reported problems on the simulator as well.

the failures where detected on:

• iOS 7.0.3 iPhone 5C
• iOS 7.0.4 iPad 4

this is a bug in Apple's UIAutomation - we are simply calling UIA.typeString()

[jmoody]

filed a radar 15748415

[krukow]

With commit 30b12c8 this should be improved at least in the case of UIA errors.

[jmoody]

iPhone 5C iOS 7.0.2

OT%.I&k&~[@1p4`wGw$UF^Q{_!+_!E6{DkFz_ON@^E.@.1{eA@ - 'VerboseError: Unable to type: 
OT%.I&k&~[@1p4`wGw$UF^Q{_!+_!E6{DkFz_ON@^E.@.1{eA@

those look like the same string to me.

# could not reproduce with 
10.times { 
    clear_text("textField marked:'top tf'")
    sleep(0.4)
     keyboard_enter_text 'OT%.I&k&~[@1p4`wGw$UF^Q{_!+_!E6{DkFz_ON@^E.@.1{eA@'; sleep(0.4) 
}

UPDATE

after further investigation, i think this a different bug.

#310

[jmoody]

Apple Bug

UIAKeyboard typeString() does not enter the correct characters on devices
Duplicate of 15699700 (Open)

[thestumonkey]

I am also getting this issue.
It works absolutely fine on my machine, but my build machine this happens 100% of the time. It can find the views, but it's really slow to type (in some cases doing a long press instead of a normal press). It then crashes out on the verbose error when it tries to touch the next field
I have calabash 0.9.165
This was using keyboard_enter_text

[jmoody]

@thestumonkey

Are you sure that it is this issue you are seeing?

Or are you seeing this one: #310?

Please inspect the RuntimeError to confirm. Another check is to make sure that the keyboard contains all the characters in your string.

I ask because this particular case is intermittent, the other always occurs.

Is this on a device or the simulator?

[thestumonkey]

I was sent to this page from this forum thread which describes my issue
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/calabash-ios/UodC_Akk-Ho
My issue happens on the simulator and happens 100% on one machine, but 0% on a different machine with the same codebase. My string does not contain any odd characters, however the keyboard does seem to be trying to type some strange characters as it types very slowly. Maybe the error message I am getting is a symptom of anoher bug which is causing it to try to write an anvalid character?

[jmoody]

related: http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=6431756878086144

17869497 UIAKeyboard.typeString() cannot set value on invalid element: UIATextField