Asking for a specific autopilot stack backend should either succeed or raise an exception

[Thomi Richards]

Currently you can do this:

>>> from autopilot.input import Keyboard
>>> kbd = Keyboard.create("UInput")
>>> type(kbd)
autopilot.input._X11.Keyboard

So here autopilot has silently decided that it cannot give us the backend variant we asked for, and has decided that giving us anything is better than raising an exception.

However, I'm not sure that's a good idea.

Certainly creating a keyboard with:

kbd = Keyboard.create()

should return any keyboard. But if we ask for a specific type, we should either get that type, or fail.

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:autopilot at revision 159, scheduled for release in autopilot, milestone 1.3

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopilot - 1.3daily13.06.05-0ubuntu2

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autopilot (1.3daily13.06.05-0ubuntu2) saucy; urgency=low

  * autopilot-touch only suggests python-ubuntu-platform-api for now.
    It's not in distro and we need that requirement to be fulfilled to
    have unity 7, 100 scopes and the touch stack to distro.
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:33:46 +0200

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

raring has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the raring task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".