Unable to pass JWT token via extras in startActivity method

[skibos]

Hi.

Im trying to pass via extras random JWT token to my activity. My code looks in a following way:

    await driver?.execute('mobile: startActivity', {
      intent: 'example_intent',
      extras: [
        [
          's',
          'authToken',
'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJhZDE4MTg3OS02NzdjLTQzODQtOTE0NC0xMmY0M2FhOTJiMjkiLCJ1bmlxdWVfbmFtZSI6ImFkMTgxODc5LTY3N2MtNDM4NC05MTQ0LTEyZjQzYWE5MmIyOSIsImp0aSI6IjIxYmU3NzcxLTU1OTAtNDVjOS1hNTgyLTVjOTBjNTM0ZDc0OCIsImlhdCI6IjE3MzM4MzcyMTU4MDkiLCJodHRwOi8vc2NoZW1hcy5taWNyb3NvZnQuY29tL3dzLzIwMDgvMDYvaWRlbnRpdHkvY2xhaW1zL3JvbGUiOiJDbGllbnQiLCJuYmYiOjE3MzM4MzcyMTUsImV4cCI6MzMyMzgzMDEyMTUsImlzcyI6ImJlYXV0eWJveCJ9.BuAOPTVC1GXX4zSwH0ItP-yfsxvcFng90bp44lXeuvA',
        ],
        ['s', 'varName2', 'My String2'],
        ['ia', 'arrName', '1,2,3,4'],
      ],
    });

In appium logs I see that under the hood command is not parsed correctly:

[478ae273][AndroidUiautomator2Driver@7a99] Calling AppiumDriver.execute() with args: ["mobile: startActivity",[{"intent":"example_intent","extras":[["s","authToken","eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJhZDE4MTg3OS02NzdjLTQzODQtOTE0NC0xMmY0M2FhOTJiMjkiLCJ1bmlxdWVfbmFtZSI6ImFkMTgxODc5LTY3N2MtNDM4NC05MTQ0LTEyZjQzYWE5MmIyOSIsImp0aSI6IjIxYmU3NzcxLTU1OTAtNDVjOS1hNTgyLTVjOTBjNTM0ZDc0OCIsImlhdCI6IjE3MzM4MzcyMTU4MDkiLCJodHRwOi8vc2NoZW1hcy5taWNyb3NvZnQuY29tL3dzLzIwMDgvMDYvaWRlbnRpdHkvY2xhaW1zL3JvbGUiOiJDbGllbnQiLCJuYmYiOjE3MzM4MzcyMTUsImV4cCI6MzMyMzgzMDEyMTUsImlzcyI6ImJlYXV0eWJveCJ9.BuAOPTVC1GXX4zSwH0ItP-yfsxvcFng90bp44lXeuvA"],["s","varName2","My String2"],["ia","arrName","1,2,3,4"]]}],"478ae273-7d92-4544-8227-cdcd9407ca40"]
[478ae273][ADB] Running '/Users/x/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb -P 5037 -s emulator-5554 shell am start-activity example_intent --es authToken eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJhZDE4MTg3OS02NzdjLTQzODQtOTE0NC0xMmY0M2FhOTJiMjkiLCJ1bmlxdWVfbmFtZSI6ImFkMTgxODc5LTY3N2MtNDM4NC05MTQ0LTEyZjQzYWE5MmIyOSIsImp0aSI6IjIxYmU3NzcxLTU1OTAtNDVjOS1hNTgyLTVjOTBjNTM0ZDc0OCIsImlhdCI6IjE3MzM4MzcyMTU4MDkiLCJodHRwOi8vc2NoZW1hcy5taWNyb3NvZnQuY29tL3dzLzIwMDgvMDYvaWRlbnRpdHkvY2xhaW1zL3JvbGUiOiJDbGllbnQiLCJuYmYiOjE3MzM4MzcyMTUsImV4cCI6MzMyMzgzMDEyMTUsImlzcyI6ImJlYXV0eWJveCJ9.BuAOPTVC1GXX4zSwH0ItP-yfsxvcFng90bp44lXeuvA --es varName2 'My String2' --eia arrName 1\,2\,3\,4'
[478ae273][AndroidUiautomator2Driver@7a99] Responding to client with driver.execute() result: "Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=example_intent }"

It looks like there are missing ' ' in the start and end of JWT passed to ADB. In documentation there is said also that string must be valid - what does it mean?

The purpose of passing JWT via extras is to have possibility to skip whole login/register flow and speed up my tests.

[mykola-mokhnach]

not sure what is the problem here. The token string is base64-encoded. It does not have any chars that require escaping

[skibos]

I use package https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-launch-arguments

The thing is that:

adb -P 5037 -s emulator-5554 shell am start-activity my_package/my_activity --es authToken eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJhZDE4MTg3OS02NzdjLTQzODQtOTE0NC0xMmY0M2FhOTJiMjkiLCJ1bmlxdWVfbmFtZSI6ImFkMTgxODc5LTY3N2MtNDM4NC05MTQ0LTEyZjQzYWE5MmIyOSIsImp0aSI6IjIxYmU3NzcxLTU1OTAtNDVjOS1hNTgyLTVjOTBjNTM0ZDc0OCIsImlhdCI6IjE3MzM4MzcyMTU4MDkiLCJodHRwOi8vc2NoZW1hcy5taWNyb3NvZnQuY29tL3dzLzIwMDgvMDYvaWRlbnRpdHkvY2xhaW1zL3JvbGUiOiJDbGllbnQiLCJuYmYiOjE3MzM4MzcyMTUsImV4cCI6MzMyMzgzMDEyMTUsImlzcyI6ImJlYXV0eWJveCJ9.BuAOPTVC1GXX4zSwH0ItP-yfsxvcFng90bp44lXeuvA

which plugin is executing doesn't work. I did small investigation and "" doesnt matter.

When I run this command in CMD - get response which looks like:

"Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=my_package/my_activity }"

It seems extras aren't passed to the activity. (?)

I tried different approach and I added -n before my_package/my_activity and

adb -P 5037 -s emulator-5554 shell am start-activity -n my_package/my_activity --es authToken eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJhZDE4MTg3OS02NzdjLTQzODQtOTE0NC0xMmY0M2FhOTJiMjkiLCJ1bmlxdWVfbmFtZSI6ImFkMTgxODc5LTY3N2MtNDM4NC05MTQ0LTEyZjQzYWE5MmIyOSIsImp0aSI6IjIxYmU3NzcxLTU1OTAtNDVjOS1hNTgyLTVjOTBjNTM0ZDc0OCIsImlhdCI6IjE3MzM4MzcyMTU4MDkiLCJodHRwOi8vc2NoZW1hcy5taWNyb3NvZnQuY29tL3dzLzIwMDgvMDYvaWRlbnRpdHkvY2xhaW1zL3JvbGUiOiJDbGllbnQiLCJuYmYiOjE3MzM4MzcyMTUsImV4cCI6MzMyMzgzMDEyMTUsImlzcyI6ImJlYXV0eWJveCJ9.BuAOPTVC1GXX4zSwH0ItP-yfsxvcFng90bp44lXeuvA

and response from emulator was:

Starting: Intent { cmp=my_package/my_activity (has extras) }

also package from react native manage to fetch my extras. I tried to pass also via driver.execute additional parameter "component" which was the same like intent:

await driver?.execute('mobile: startActivity', {
  intent: 'my_package/my_activity',
  component: 'my_package/my_activity',
  extras: [
    [
      's',
      'authToken',

'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJhZDE4MTg3OS02NzdjLTQzODQtOTE0NC0xMmY0M2FhOTJiMjkiLCJ1bmlxdWVfbmFtZSI6ImFkMTgxODc5LTY3N2MtNDM4NC05MTQ0LTEyZjQzYWE5MmIyOSIsImp0aSI6IjIxYmU3NzcxLTU1OTAtNDVjOS1hNTgyLTVjOTBjNTM0ZDc0OCIsImlhdCI6IjE3MzM4MzcyMTU4MDkiLCJodHRwOi8vc2NoZW1hcy5taWNyb3NvZnQuY29tL3dzLzIwMDgvMDYvaWRlbnRpdHkvY2xhaW1zL3JvbGUiOiJDbGllbnQiLCJuYmYiOjE3MzM4MzcyMTUsImV4cCI6MzMyMzgzMDEyMTUsImlzcyI6ImJlYXV0eWJveCJ9.BuAOPTVC1GXX4zSwH0ItP-yfsxvcFng90bp44lXeuvA',
],
],
});

adb -P 5037 -s emulator-5554 shell am start-activity my_package/my_activity -n my_package/my_activity --es authToken eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJhZDE4MTg3OS02NzdjLTQzODQtOTE0NC0xMmY0M2FhOTJiMjkiLCJ1bmlxdWVfbmFtZSI6ImFkMTgxODc5LTY3N2MtNDM4NC05MTQ0LTEyZjQzYWE5MmIyOSIsImp0aSI6IjIxYmU3NzcxLTU1OTAtNDVjOS1hNTgyLTVjOTBjNTM0ZDc0OCIsImlhdCI6IjE3MzM4MzcyMTU4MDkiLCJodHRwOi8vc2NoZW1hcy5taWNyb3NvZnQuY29tL3dzLzIwMDgvMDYvaWRlbnRpdHkvY2xhaW1zL3JvbGUiOiJDbGllbnQiLCJuYmYiOjE3MzM4MzcyMTUsImV4cCI6MzMyMzgzMDEyMTUsImlzcyI6ImJlYXV0eWJveCJ9.BuAOPTVC1GXX4zSwH0ItP-yfsxvcFng90bp44lXeuvA

but still response was:

"Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=my_package/my_activity }"

The easiest way to resolve it I think would be mark intent as optional but maybe problem is somewhere else?