plainbox needs to support the interpolation syntax in job descriptions

EXAMPLE:

plugin: user-verify
name: graphics/resolution
requires:
 device.category == 'VIDEO'
command: resolution_test
estimated_duration: 0.750
_description:
 PURPOSE:
     This test will verify the default display resolution
 STEPS:
     1. This display is using the following resolution:
 INFO:
     $output
 VERIFICATION:
     Is this acceptable for your display?

This is not critical for now, but something we will need to fix when we want to adopt plainbox for checkbox and checkbox-certification

This is a bit annoying since JobDefinition is immutable and I don't want to change that. We'll introduce appropriate APIs to get interpolated description field for a given job and session though. Just assign me to this whenever you want this fixed

jobs relying on the interpolation feature are: graphics/resolution and networking/info children

The consensus is:

1) we should be able to work around the 2 tests needing $output, so
2) we may not need to implement that now, but
3) we still need to design a way to show command output to the user to help him decide outcomes (may be an adaptation of the log viewer)

graphics/resolution could be handle differently by creating an overlay with the screen resolution using qml, see: https://code.launchpad.net/~sylvain-pineau/checkbox/graphic_resolution_test_qml/+merge/199418

networking/info jobs should be replaced by their fully automated versions, see ethernet.txt.in and wireless.txt.in

So far we have ethernet/info_automated and a request to have its counterpart for wireless (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkbox/+bug/1262205)

I think it's Won't Fix, another bug should be filed for what we actually did

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Sylvain Pineau
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> ** Changed in: checkbox
> Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
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> ** Changed in: checkbox-ihv-ng
> Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
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