How to mimic a pressing ENTER on a TextField in Flutter Tests

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Given that tester.enterText will allow me to enter the text on a TextField in a flutter test, how would I mock pressing the DONE key on the android keyboard or pressing ENTER on my keyboard inside the textfield?

This would also be equivalent to checking for the pressing of the DONE button on the IOS/android keyboard

Accept your own answer as the answer to this question :) It helped me a lot — Evaldo Bratti, May 14 '19 at 14:20

score 53 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '19 at 16:41

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I found the implementation in the flutter repo tests @ https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/7e445a17324ee7e615ef2c886d0cb9407853f338/packages/flutter/test/widgets/editable_text_test.dart#L558:

ex: await tester.testTextInput.receiveAction(TextInputAction.done);

// example
await tester.enterText(find.byKey(new Key('txtFieldKey')), 'Hello World!');
await tester.testTextInput.receiveAction(TextInputAction.done);
await tester.pump();

answered Feb 05 '19 at 16:41

xpeldev

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this obviously works for this, but for integration tests this wont work theres an open issue for this here https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/9383 – martinseal1987 Jul 10 '19 at 09:49
@xpeldev Still, there is no solution for this in integration tests :( – Asif Nawaz Dec 30 '20 at 09:46
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With integration_test package this implementation works. – vrnvorona May 06 '21 at 10:54
Great work. This helped .. – Asim Khan Oct 14 '21 at 14:45
@xpeldev How to simulate keyboard action to clear text from TextField()? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70893913/flutter-integration-test-how-to-simulate-keyboard-action-to-clear-text-from-tex – Rajesh Patil Jan 28 '22 at 12:38

How to mimic a pressing ENTER on a TextField in Flutter Tests

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