MDL-72696 behat: support inplace editable fields of type select.

If an inplace editable field is using the "select" type, we should
treat it as a select field when setting it's value during scenarios.

lib/behat/behat_field_manager.php

@@ -181,7 +181,12 @@ class behat_field_manager {
 
         if ($tagname == 'span') {
             if ($node->hasAttribute('data-inplaceeditable') && $node->getAttribute('data-inplaceeditable')) {
-                return 'inplaceeditable';
+                // Determine appropriate editable type of this field (text or select).
+                if ($node->getAttribute('data-type') == 'select') {
+                    return 'inplaceeditable_select';
+                } else {
+                    return 'inplaceeditable';
+                }
             }
         }
 

lib/behat/form_field/behat_form_inplaceeditable_select.php

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+<?php
+// This file is part of Moodle - http://moodle.org/
+//
+// Moodle is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// Moodle is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+// GNU General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+// along with Moodle.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+// NOTE: no MOODLE_INTERNAL test here, this file may be required by behat before including /config.php.
+
+require_once(__DIR__  . '/behat_form_select.php');
+
+/**
+ * Custom interaction with inplace editable elements of type select
+ *
+ * @package     core_form
+ * @copyright   2021 Paul Holden <[email protected]>
+ * @license     http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
+ */
+class behat_form_inplaceeditable_select extends behat_form_select {
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the value to a field
+     *
+     * @param string $value
+     */
+    public function set_value($value): void {
+        // Require JS to run this step.
+        self::require_javascript();
+
+        // Enable editing.
+        self::execute('behat_general::i_click_on_in_the', [
+            '[data-inplaceeditablelink]',
+            'css_element',
+            $this->field,
+            'NodeElement',
+        ]);
+
+        // After editing is enabled, set the select field value.
+        $select = $this->field->find('css', 'select');
+        $select->selectOption($value);
+    }
+}

reportbuilder/tests/behat/behat_reportbuilder.php

@@ -93,10 +93,6 @@ class behat_reportbuilder extends behat_base {
         }
 
         $editlabel = get_string('aggregatecolumn', 'core_reportbuilder', $column);
-
-        // Work around for MDL-72696, which treats all inplace_editable elements as text boxes and causes unpredictable
-        // behaviour in Chrome when it types characters into an inplace_editable of type select (it selects the wrong option).
-        $this->execute('behat_general::i_click_on', [$this->escape($editlabel), 'link']);
         $this->execute('behat_forms::i_set_the_field_to', [$this->escape($editlabel), $this->escape($aggregation)]);
     }
 }