Test Complete 9 - Console Automation

Created a Function in python which will capture the contents to clipboard and return the results as an array

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TanyaYatskovskawrote:

Hi Steve,

 

Try using the following approach: copy the PuTTY window's contents to the clipboard. The following code snippet gets the output of the PuTTY window and prints it to the log to the Additional Info panel:

 

  //...

  var w = Sys["Process"]("putty")["Window"]("PuTTY", "*", 1);

  w["SystemMenu"]["Click"]("Copy All to Clipboard");

  Log["Message"](w["WndCaption"], Sys["Clipboard"]);

  //...

 

 

 

As soon as you get the needed text, you can use the indexOf method or a regular expression to find out whether the text matches a specific search pattern. Please see the "C++Script, C#Script - Working With Strings" article for information on these features and some sample scripts.

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#*****************************************************************************
# def name: GetPuttyText
#
# Description: Gets putty txt from terminal and returns contents.
#
# Inputs: sXTerm = Terminal Name
#
# Outputs: Captured data from screen
#
# Limitations: None
#
# Examples: GetPuttyText(sXTerm)
#
#*****************************************************************************

def GetPuttyText (sXTerm):
 # Create Putty object
 w = Sys.Process("putty").Window("PuTTY", sXTerm, 1)
 w.Restore()
 w.Activate()

 # Capture data to clipboard
 w.SystemMenu.Click("Copy All to Clipboard")
 sScreen = Sys.Clipboard

 #Log Putty window contents
 Log.Message(sScreen)

 # Put contents into an array
 aScreen = sScreen.splitlines()

 # Clean up array and remove blank lines
 aScreen = [s and s.strip() for s in aScreen]
 aScreen = list(filter(None, aScreen))

 # Clear Scrollback in putty
 w.SystemMenu.Click("Clear Scrollback")
 
 return aScreen
# GetPuttyText