Setting permission not working

[billburgess]

When run locally on a clean simulator (app not installed) the command does not set the permissions for notifications.

1. Open the iOS Simulator (using iPhone 7)
2. Open terminal
3. Run command applesimutils --simulator "iPhone 7" --bundle "my.bundle.id" --setPermissions "notifications=YES"
4. Simulator restarts.
5. Run test suite
6. Apple Notification Permission dialog still appears while tests are running

Am I missing something?

[LeoNatan]

You need to provide the simulator UUID for the --simulator argument. Use xcrun simctl list / fbsimctl list to obtain the UUID of the simulator you are using.

[LeoNatan]

I've opened an enhancement issue for this. I'll see what I can do.

[billburgess]

I tried once with the simulator UUID. Maybe that is the trick. Subsequent runs still seemed to run against the open iPhone 7 simulator and restarted the Springboard. So something is working on the simulator.

The main for me is how would I be able to use this in my CI script. I won't know the UUID on the remote machine where my tests are running, so I can't hardcode a UUID in. Is it possible to fuzzy logic the match and run on the closest match? Or first match?

[LeoNatan]

For now, you can use fbsimctl "iPhone 7" list | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | head -1 to obtain the UUID of the simulator you want to use in your CI.

[LeoNatan]

It might be possible to somehow filter xcrun simctl list as well, but the output there is more complex / less convenient.

[billburgess]

I'll give that a try. I appreciate the help.

[billburgess]

Here is the command I ultimately ended up using in my yml file to set the permission. It does work once I set the permissions on the UDID rather than the name.

applesimutils --simulator $(fbsimctl 'iPhone 7' list | tr -s '' | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | head -1) --bundle "com.myapp.bundle" --setPermissions "notifications=YES"

[LeoNatan]

Thanks for posting this. I will work on a future improvement to allow specifying the simulator by name.