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Extracted from before v0.46.1 / #582

Enhanced Terminal Content Waiting Utility

Overview

This PR introduces a significant enhancement to the terminal content waiting utility in libtmux. The changes include a more fluent API inspired by Playwright, improved error handling, type checking fixes, and the ability to wait for multiple content patterns.

Key Features

1. Fluent API with Playwright-Inspired Design

# Before
result = wait_for_pane_content(pane, "hello world", ContentMatchType.CONTAINS)

# After
result = expect(pane).wait_for_text("hello world")

# With method chaining
result = (
    expect(pane)
    .with_timeout(5.0)
    .without_raising()
    .wait_for_exact_text("completed successfully")
)

2. Multiple Pattern Support

# Wait for any of these patterns to appear
result = wait_for_any_content(
    pane, 
    ["Success", "Error:", "timeout"], 
    ContentMatchType.CONTAINS
)
if result.success:
    print(f"Pattern '{result.matched_content}' found at index {result.matched_pattern_index}")

# Wait for all patterns to appear
result = wait_for_all_content(
    pane,
    ["Database connected", "Server started"],
    ContentMatchType.CONTAINS
)
if result.success:
    for pattern in result.matched_content:
        print(f"Found pattern: {pattern}")

3. Mixed Pattern Types

# Different match types in a single call
result = wait_for_any_content(
    pane,
    [
        "exact match",                   # String for exact match
        "partial text",                  # String for contains match
        re.compile(r"\d+ items found"),  # Regex pattern
        lambda lines: len(lines) > 10    # Predicate function
    ],
    [
        ContentMatchType.EXACT,
        ContentMatchType.CONTAINS,
        ContentMatchType.REGEX,
        ContentMatchType.PREDICATE
    ]
)

4. Performance and Debugging Improvements

  • Added elapsed time tracking for timing information
  • Improved error messaging with detailed type checking
  • Fixed return type handling for wait_for_all_content to return a list of matched patterns
  • Enhanced exception handling for more reliable testing

Fixed Issues

  • Resolved all type checking issues with proper type annotations
  • Fixed inconsistencies between matched_line and match_line attributes
  • Improved doctest examples to prevent execution failures
  • Resolved timeout message formatting
  • Fixed CI test failures by adding robust error handling in doctests
  • Added explicit try/except blocks in doctests for better error reporting
  • Fixed issues with timeouts in the CI environment

Documentation

  • Created comprehensive documentation in docs/test-helpers/waiter.md
  • Added examples for all usage patterns including the new fluent API
  • Updated API reference with accurate return types
  • Added detailed explanation of the WaitResult object properties
  • Improved doctest examples with better error handling and timing parameters
  • Made examples more robust for different execution environments

Example Code

  • Added example file in tests/examples/test/test_waiter.py demonstrating different ways to use the enhanced API
  • Ensured examples follow best practices and appropriate error handling
  • Added examples showing how to properly handle timeouts

Type Checking

  • Improved type annotations for better IDE support and static type checking
  • Ensured full mypy compatibility with no type errors
  • Added mypy overrides for test examples

Testing

  • All existing tests pass with no failures
  • Fixed test cases for wait_for_any_content and wait_for_all_content
  • Added comprehensive tests for the new fluent API methods
  • Made test_wait_until_ready.py more robust with fallback patterns and better error handling
  • Enhanced doctests to be more reliable in CI environments
  • Added timeouts and error handling to prevent test failures

Recent Improvements

  • Fixed linting and formatting issues throughout the waiter module
  • Improved error handling in wait functions with proper else blocks
  • Optimized code for readability and maintainability
  • Added conftest.py to register the example pytest marker
  • Made the shell prompt detection more robust using common prompt characters
  • Added and improved type annotations throughout the codebase
  • Improved doctest reliability with explicit exception handling
  • Added better feedback in doctest examples for debugging

CI Compatibility

  • Made doctests more resilient to CI environments with different timing characteristics
  • Used shorter timeouts and non-raising behavior in examples to prevent test failures
  • Added explicit result validation to ensure tests are meaningful
  • Fixed issues with quoted strings and formatting

Documentation

  • Updated example code in test_wait_until_ready.py to use contextlib.suppress
  • Made all examples compatible with automated testing and documentation
  • Documentation is now fully synchronized with code examples via literalinclude directives
  • Improved doctest examples for better clarity and reliability

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tony added 15 commits November 27, 2025 09:48
…essaging

- Add descriptive timeout message to WaitTimeout exception
- Ensure consistent handling of timeout errors
- Fix type hints for function return values
…I and multi-pattern support

- Implement Playwright-inspired fluent API for more expressive test code
- Add wait_for_any_content and wait_for_all_content for composable waiting
- Fix type annotations for all wait_for functions
- Improve WaitResult class to handle different return types
- Fix doctest examples to prevent execution failures
- Enhance error handling with better timeout messages
- Fix test_wait_for_pane_content_exact to use correct match type
- Update test_wait_for_any_content to check matched_pattern_index
- Fix test_wait_for_all_content to handle list of matched patterns
- Add comprehensive type annotations to all test functions
- Ensure proper handling of None checks for Pane objects
…iters

- Create detailed markdown documentation in docs/test-helpers/waiter.md
- Add key features section highlighting main capabilities
- Include quick start examples for all functions
- Document fluent API with Playwright-inspired design
- Explain wait_for_any_content and wait_for_all_content with practical examples
- Add detailed API reference for all waiters
- Include testing best practices section
- Adds a conftest.py file in tests/examples to register the pytest.mark.example marker
- Eliminates pytest warnings about unknown markers in example tests
- Improves test output by removing noise from warnings
- Each test file focuses on a single feature or concept of the waiter module
- Added descriptive docstrings to all test functions for better documentation
- Created conftest.py with session fixture for waiter examples
- Added helpers.py with utility functions for the test examples
- Test files now follow a consistent naming convention for easier reference
- Each test file is self-contained and demonstrates a single concept
- All tests are marked with @pytest.mark.example for filtering

This restructuring supports the documentation update to use literalinclude directives,
making the documentation more maintainable and ensuring it stays in sync with actual code.
Fixes test_wait_for_pane_content_exact_match_detailed failure on tmux 3.1b
where capture_pane() was called immediately after send_keys() before the
content had been flushed/rendered by tmux.

The race condition manifested as:
  AssertionError: assert 'UNIQUE_TEST_STRING_123' in ''

Adding a 0.1s delay after send_keys() allows tmux to flush the content
before capture_pane() is called, fixing the timing issue on older versions.
why: test_wait_for_any_content_exact_match was flaky due to race
condition - pane content captured before terminal finished redrawing
after clear command.
what:
- Add wait_until_pane_ready() after send_keys("clear") to ensure
  shell prompt is ready before capturing content
- Uses idiomatic waiter pattern instead of arbitrary time.sleep()
why: Test was unreliable because shell prompts vary by environment
what:
- Replace prompt detection ($, %, >, #) with echo marker pattern
- Remove skip decorator - test now runs reliably
- Simplify test logic by using deterministic output
why: Module had no direct tests, only indirect coverage via waiter mocking
what:
- Test immediate success (returns True on first call)
- Test success after multiple retries
- Test timeout with raises=True (raises WaitTimeout)
- Test timeout with raises=False (returns False, WaitTimeout)
why: test_wait_for_pane_content_exact_match_detailed is flaky on tmux 3.4
due to capture-pane line wrapping behavior differences introduced in that
version (commit 9cc8e40a added GRID_STRING_EMPTY_CELLS flag)
what:
- Add pytest.mark.skipif to skip test on tmux 3.4 specifically
- Import has_version for exact version checking
why: Sphinx autodoc failed with ModuleNotFoundError
what:
- Change libtmux.test.retry_extended to libtmux._internal.retry_extended
tony added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 28, 2025
Add deprecation warning (`FutureWarning`) for tmux versions below 3.2a,
introduce `TMUX_SOFT_MIN_VERSION` constant for deprecation threshold, and
prepare for future hard minimum version bump.

Motivation:

tmux 3.2a was released in April 2021 and is the version shipped with
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Older versions (3.1 and below) are only found on EOL
platforms like Ubuntu 20.04. Deprecating these versions allows libtmux to:

- Remove legacy compatibility code in future releases
- Take advantage of newer tmux features (e.g., `format-defaults`,
  extended hooks, `display-menu` APIs)
- Align supported versions with actively maintained distributions

Changes:

Source (`src/libtmux/common.py`):
- `TMUX_SOFT_MIN_VERSION`: New constant set to `"3.2a"`
- `_version_deprecation_checked`: Module-level flag ensuring warning fires
  only once per process
- `_check_deprecated_version()`: New helper that emits `FutureWarning` when
  tmux version is below 3.2a
- `get_version()`: Now calls `_check_deprecated_version()` to trigger
  warning on first version check

Environment Variable:
- Users can suppress warning via `LIBTMUX_SUPPRESS_VERSION_WARNING=1`

Tests (`tests/test_common.py`):
- `test_version_deprecation_warning` - 5 parametrized cases covering
  deprecated versions, current versions, and env var suppression
- `test_version_deprecation_warns_once` - Verifies warning fires once
- `test_version_deprecation_via_get_version` - Integration test verifying
  warning through full `get_version()` call chain

Documentation:
- `docs/quickstart.md`: Updated Requirements with version recommendations
- `CHANGES`: Added Deprecations and Internal sections for 0.48.x

Future Work:

In a future release (e.g., 0.49.0 or 0.50.0):
- Bump `TMUX_MIN_VERSION` from `"1.8"` to `"3.2a"`
- Remove `_check_deprecated_version()` helper and `TMUX_SOFT_MIN_VERSION`
- Remove tests that mock old version values

See Also: #516, #594, #603, #604
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