Programmatically sending input from the client

[dpage-edb]

Hi

How can I programmatically send input from the client? Doing something like:

term.writeln('ls -al');

will write the text to the terminal, but it doesn't send it to the server (even when hitting return afterwards).

Thanks!

[tsl0922]

You can access the javascript Terminal object via window.term.

[dpage-edb]

Thanks for the quick reply. My issue is not how to access the Terminal object; that seems to work fine - the problem is that using term.write() displays the text on the terminal UI, but never sends it to the server.

For example, in the screenshot below, I first sent the "select version()" command using the Javascript console. That never gets sent to the server. If I then type the same command into the terminal window, it works fine and I get the version info I expect.

[tsl0922]

There isn't an api from ttyd or xterm that can do it, but you can simulate keyboard dom events to xterm's textarea, it should work.

[tsl0922]

example code to send ls to the terminal:

var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = 'https://unpkg.com/keysim@latest/dist/keysim.js';
script.onload = function() {
	var input = document.querySelector('textarea');
	var keyboard = Keysim.Keyboard.US_ENGLISH;
	keyboard.dispatchEventsForInput("ls", input);
	keyboard.dispatchEventsForAction("enter", input);
};
document.body.appendChild(script);

[dpage-edb]

Yes, that works. Thanks!