I use UIAutomation to automate an iPad application. I have tried to use (object) performTaskWithPathArgumentsTimeout(path, args, timeout) to run Safari.app from my script:
var target = UIATarget.localTarget();
var host = target.host();
var result = host.performTaskWithPathArgumentsTimeout("/Applications/Safari.app", ["http://www.google.com"], 30);
UIALogger.logDebug("exitCode: " + result.exitCode);
UIALogger.logDebug("stdout: " + result.stdout);
UIALogger.logDebug("stderr: " + result.stderr);
I got the following results: exitCode: 5 stdout: stderr:
I’ve also tried to launch echo:
var target = UIATarget.localTarget();
var host = target.host();
var result = host.performTaskWithPathArgumentsTimeout("/bin/echo", ["Hello
World"], 5);
UIALogger.logDebug("exitCode: " + result.exitCode);
UIALogger.logDebug("stdout: " + result.stdout);
UIALogger.logDebug("stderr: " + result.stderr);
Results: exitCode: 0 stdout: Hello World stderr:
So, looks like performTaskWithPathArgumentsTimeout works for specific applications only.
Could you please help me to answer the following questions: 1. What does exitCode = 5 mean? 2. Which processes can be launched using performTaskWithPathArgumentsTimeout function?