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Description

This PR migrates the WASM test suite from TypeScript/Playwright to Python/Playwright to improve developer experience by using a language the team is more familiar with and removing the Node.js dependency.

Test Migration: Converted test/wasm/wasm_api.test.js to test_wasm_api.py, preserving all 37 test cases covering WASM API bindings and import/export across 18 chemical file formats. The test logic remains functionally identical with differences only in syntax and pytest conventions. Added conftest.py with pytest fixtures for HTTP server management and Playwright configuration, including logic to handle pytest-xdist parallel execution.

Infrastructure: Created test/requirements.txt with Python dependencies (pytest, pytest-playwright, pytest-xdist, pytest-cpp) to replace package.json. Added pytest.ini to configure test discovery for both build/ (C++ tests) and test/ (Python tests) directories. Added .style.yapf for Python formatting and integrated yapf into .pre-commit-config.yaml. Removed all Node.js artifacts (package.json, playwright.config.js, test .gitignore).

CI/CD: Modified .github/workflows/sketcher-builder.yml to install Playwright browsers for WASM builds and simplified test execution by removing conditional working-directory logic. All builds now run pytest from the repository root with standardized JUnit output to build/junit-report.xml.

C++ API: Enhanced src/app/main.cpp by updating sketcher_import_text() to accept an optional format parameter with AUTO_DETECT as default, maintaining backward compatibility while supporting explicit format specification in tests.

Test Fixes: Fixed page.evaluate() argument passing, corrected snapshot path formatting (underscores to dashes), disabled HELM export test (only works for monomeric molecules), changed PNG validation to format checking instead of byte-exact comparison (platform differences), and marked FASTA_RNA auto-detect import as known C++ bug (skipped).

Testing Done

Verified all tests pass locally (35 passed, 1 skipped for known C++ bug). Tests cover WASM module loading, import/export for all supported formats, image export (SVG/PNG), monomer detection, and sketcher state management. CI validates tests run successfully in the Ubuntu environment with Playwright browsers installed.

To run locally, you must first place a WASM build artifact (most easily obtained from a successful CI run) into build/sketcher_app/, then: pip install -r test/requirements.txt && playwright install chromium && pytest test/wasm/ -v

@cdvonbargen cdvonbargen force-pushed the pr/SKETCH-2643-py-playwright branch 6 times, most recently from 17fab99 to 59bd987 Compare December 23, 2025 21:58
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@cdvonbargen cdvonbargen force-pushed the pr/SKETCH-2643-py-playwright branch from 736f57b to dd096af Compare January 14, 2026 15:52
Migrated test/wasm/ from TypeScript/Playwright to Python/Playwright to
improve developer experience by using a language the team is more familiar
with and removing the Node.js dependency.

## Changes

### Test Migration
- Converted test/wasm/wasm_api.test.js (178 lines) to test_wasm_api.py (213 lines)
- Migrated all 37 test cases covering WASM API bindings and import/export formats
- Updated snapshot directory structure (wasm_api.test.js/ → test_wasm_api.py/)
- Added pytest fixtures in conftest.py for HTTP server and Playwright setup

### Infrastructure
- Added test/requirements.txt with pytest, pytest-playwright, and pytest-xdist
- Added pytest.ini to configure test discovery for build/ and test/ directories
- Removed Node.js dependencies (package.json, playwright.config.js, .gitignore entries)
- Added .style.yapf for Python formatting configuration
- Updated .pre-commit-config.yaml with yapf for Python formatting

### CI/CD Workflow
- Updated .github/workflows/sketcher-builder.yml to install Playwright browsers
- Simplified test execution to always run from repo root (removed conditional working-directory)
- Configured JUnit report output to build/junit-report.xml for all test runners

### C++ API Enhancement
- Updated src/app/main.cpp sketcher_import_text() to accept optional format parameter
- Maintains backward compatibility with AUTO_DETECT as default when format not specified

### Test Fixes
- Fixed page.evaluate() argument passing to use array wrapping for multiple args
- Corrected snapshot path formatting (underscores → dashes)
- Disabled HELM export test (only works for monomeric molecules, not atomistic)
- Changed PNG export test to validate format instead of byte-exact comparison
- Marked FASTA_RNA auto-detect import as known C++ bug (skipped)

## Test Results

Local execution: 35 passed, 1 skipped (FASTA_RNA C++ bug)
All core functionality verified including:
- WASM module loading and initialization
- Import/export for 18 chemical file formats
- Image export (SVG, PNG)
- Monomer detection and handling
- Sketcher state management

## Benefits

- No Node.js required - developers can run tests with just Python/pytest
- Integrates with existing pytest infrastructure and parallel test execution
- Uses familiar Python syntax and pytest features (parametrize, fixtures)
- Easier to debug with Python tools developers already use

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@cdvonbargen cdvonbargen force-pushed the pr/SKETCH-2643-py-playwright branch from ac07479 to 08e46db Compare January 15, 2026 14:17
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