On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:32:36AM -0700, Vicnet wrote:
Hello,
Expect is a librarie/tools in perl or Tcl that is aim to control a process. You could send command on the stdin and wait for answer on stdout, then react on this event (thant why it is call 'expect').
Uselfull for executable tests, or control an automatic telnet session ...
I know OSProcess to launch executable and play with stdin/stdout but it's not exactly what do Expect.
Do you know something like that on Pharo ?
I do not know of anything equivalent to Expect, but if you are using OSProcess and CommandShell, then the scripting methods in CommandShell such as #script:onFailureDo: and #if:then:else: may be of some interest. There are examples in CommandShellTestCase in category "testing-scripts". Basically it works like this: result := CommandShell new script: 'who help ls -l NOSUCHFILE help' onFailureDo: [:p | 'the pipeline collection that failed was ', p printString]. or this: CommandShell new if: 'who ls NOSUCHFILE pwd' then: ['the script succeeded'] else: ['the script failed'] Dave