Support for XCTest addUIInterruptionMonitor for iOS system alerts and dialogs

[antgly]

I'm aware that the XCTest framework on iOS supports intercepting and interacting with system alerts, which is currently not a part of Detox.

It would be great if we could overload expect to await on an alert by text, instead of an element, passing in the text of the button to tap and/or the alert text to verify.

An example method call would look like this:

await expect(alert(by.text('This is an alert')).toBeVisible()

await alert(by.button('OK').tap()

If this has to be done as a setup step, then maybe an API like this could be useful:

beforeEach(async () => {
  // existing code
  await interceptAlert('This is an alert', buttons -> {
    buttons['OK'].tap()
  }
})

It could reject the promise if no button with label appears or if the alert doesn't appear within expect timeframe.

Apple's resource on the matter: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xctest/xctestcase/handling_ui_interruptions

[d4vidi]

Thanks for the suggestion, @antgly! We will keep this in mind in the context of our work on XCTest integ. in #2741.

@asafkorem FYI 😄

[lukebrandonfarrell]

@antgly Currently, for system alerts such as permissions (it's not possible, yet) but... for system alerts triggered by Alert.alert this is possible, see: https://lukebrandonfarrell.medium.com/detecting-system-dialogs-with-detox-e2e-and-react-native-45e9b88e826b

[d4vidi]

Nice blogpost, @lukebrandonfarrell! 😄

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[antgly]

Still interested in this (as are many following this project) 👍

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[antgly]

Can we keep this issue open as it’s a blocker for many apps’ system interactions?

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[asafkorem]

Released with Detox v20.22