[dts] [PATCH] Strip prompt by default in send_expect

Owen Hilyard ohilyard at iol.unh.edu
Mon Apr 19 16:01:35 CEST 2021


Hello All,

David submitted the patch on my behalf as he was the one doing testing for
it while I was occupied with school. We considered this patch important
enough to sidestep waiting for me to come back to submit it due to the
issue's impact on ARM testing.

Owen Hilyard

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 10:09 AM dliu <dliu at iol.unh.edu> wrote:

> From: Owen Hilyard <ohilyard at iol.unh.edu>
>
> During investigation of timeout exceptions during performance testing, the
> community lab found that trailing whitespace in run commands was the cause
> of some of the timeouts. This patch makes the Crb version of send_expect
> strip whitespace from the expected string by default. It is possible to
> disable this behavior should it be needed, but we expect that the majority
> of use-cases are matching non-whitespace characters.
>
> Signed-off-by: Owen Hilyard <ohilyard at iol.unh.edu>
> ---
>  framework/crb.py | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/framework/crb.py b/framework/crb.py
> index e7c1cc1c..3964e213 100644
> --- a/framework/crb.py
> +++ b/framework/crb.py
> @@ -79,12 +79,19 @@ class Crb(object):
>              self.alt_session = None
>
>      def send_expect(self, cmds, expected, timeout=TIMEOUT,
> -                    alt_session=False, verify=False):
> +                    alt_session=False, verify=False,
> trim_whitespace=True):
>          """
>          Send commands to crb and return string before expected string. If
>          there's no expected string found before timeout, TimeoutException
> will
>          be raised.
> +
> +        By default, it will trim the whitespace from the expected string.
> This
> +        behavior can be turned off via the trim_whitespace argument.
>          """
> +
> +        if trim_whitespace:
> +            expected = expected.strip()
> +
>          # sometimes there will be no alt_session like VM dut
>          if alt_session and self.alt_session:
>              return self.alt_session.session.send_expect(cmds, expected,
> --
> 2.27.0
>
>
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