Ability to hide container for flow and thread?

[olw-medcom]

Hey there!

I like to use the group like so <group hiddenContainer="true">. Would it also be possible to have such an attribute on <flow> and <thread>? That would help greatly in my presentation to the end user to just display the contents of the flow/thread element and not the container it self😊

[costas80]

Sounds good to me! Adding it to our backlog and will ping you as usual when it's ready to pull.

[olw-medcom]

Awesome, thank you!

[costas80]

Hi @olw-medcom! This update is now ready to pull from the latest nighly build.

As you had initially suggested, this is supported by defining a hiddenContainer="true" on the flow element. This can be set as true or false, but can also accept a variable expression that is evaluated at test case load time (e.g. $DOMAIN{showContainers}).

To illustrate with an example, the following TDL snippet ...

<flow title="Threads">
  <thread>
    <verify desc="Check in thread 1 - 1" handler="StringValidator">...</verify>
    <verify desc="Check in thread 1 - 2" handler="StringValidator">...</verify>
    <verify desc="Check in thread 1 - 3" handler="StringValidator">...</verify>
  </thread>
  <thread>
    <verify desc="Check in thread 2 - 1" handler="StringValidator">...</verify>
    <verify desc="Check in thread 2 - 2" handler="StringValidator">...</verify>
    <verify desc="Check in thread 2 - 3" handler="StringValidator">...</verify>
  </thread>
</flow>

... displays the flow step as such ...

... whereas setting hiddenContainer="true" as follows ...

<flow title="Threads" hiddenContainer="true">
  <thread>
    <verify desc="Check in thread 1 - 1" handler="StringValidator">...</verify>
    <verify desc="Check in thread 1 - 2" handler="StringValidator">...</verify>
    <verify desc="Check in thread 1 - 3" handler="StringValidator">...</verify>
  </thread>
  <thread>
    <verify desc="Check in thread 2 - 1" handler="StringValidator">...</verify>
    <verify desc="Check in thread 2 - 2" handler="StringValidator">...</verify>
    <verify desc="Check in thread 2 - 3" handler="StringValidator">...</verify>
  </thread>
</flow>

... hides the container:

Can you confirm that this covers you so we close the issue? Thanks!