Thank you very much for your response

On Tuesday 6 February 2024 at 12:03:38 UTC+2 Jens wrote:

> Nothing that I am aware of. Also I think you need some naming conventions 
> for your debug ids anyways which makes automatic generation difficult. 
> Otherwise it will be difficult to write and later understand the UI test if 
> debug ids are generic like input-0, input-1, input-2. You also need to 
> verify if any of your widgets might already use an ID because of CSS 
> styling or element selection using document.querySelector(). This would 
> break if you override the ID.
>
> Every widget has onAttach/onDetach/onLoad/onUnload methods you can 
> override. You could copy GWT's Widget class into your own source code (keep 
> the original package) or give all your widgets a common super class and 
> adjust the code to set a debug id. But I think you will quickly realize 
> that generating stable but unique debug IDs on that abstract level will be 
> difficult. Also widgets usually want debug ids on some internal meaningful 
> elements as well, which you do not know at that abstract level.
>
> -- J.
>
>
> Sebastian Bota schrieb am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2024 um 09:15:33 UTC+1:
>
>> Hello everyone. 
>> I have a GWT application and for testing purposes ( using external UI 
>> testing tools ) i need that each widget to have an ID set. i know it is 
>> possible by using ensureDebugID(), but this approach will take forever to 
>> change in my project and is very error prone.
>>
>> So my question, is there any way i can set an ID to each widget 
>> automaticly ?
>> Perhaps some kind of hook, so when a widget is added to DOM i can set the 
>> ID.
>> This id will be only used in test, not in production.
>>
>> Thank you very much for any suggestions.
>> BR,
>> Sebastian
>>
>

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