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twile wrote:

I've been looking for where to add support for the 'Command' field drop-down for a plugin's Actions.

 

Similar to how the default 'eval' Action will show a drop-down of all the possible commands and then tooltip help for how to use that command once the command is uniquely identified.

 

How does that work, do tool plugins have access to that?

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If I'm correct, I think you want to look in the plugin.xml.  This is where you specify what "actions" are available to use on whatever type of session you're creating.  It's here that you also provide a name of a file to use for the popup help when that particular action is selected.  See my example below:

 

<plugin>
   <extension
         point="com.fnfr.open.automation.tool">
      <tool
            id="com.example.iTest.XMLGen2"
            name="XMLGen2">
         <open
               handler="com.example.itest.xmlgen2.request.handlers.OpenRequestHandler"
               nextAction="add"
               openNewWindow="true"
               sessionFactory="com.example.itest.xmlgen2.XMLGen2SessionFactory">
         </open>
         <request
               action="add"
               handler="com.example.itest.xmlgen2.request.handlers.AddRequestHandler"
               help="popup_help/add.html">
         </request>
         <request
               action="generate"
               allowAutoMapResponse="false"
               handler="com.example.itest.xmlgen2.request.handlers.GenerateRequestHandler"
               nextAction="close"
               help="popup_help/generate.html">
         </request>
         <close
               nextAction="open">
         </close>
      </tool>
   </extension>
</plugin>

 

The green text is the action that you're creating.  The blue text is the class to call when the action is invoked from a test case, and the red text is what help file to use to populate the popup for this particular action.

 

In this example, I have my html files located in a folder in the top level of the project called "popup_help".  Take a look at the structure of the network tool SDK sample they give, and you'll see the same is mirrored there.

 

Does this answer your question?