example launcher in tutorial does not work

[Jeff Lane ]

So finally, after filing all these bugs:

1741116 Launcher does not list ANY stock reports. Checkbox-ng generates them anyway.
1741115 file output type returns a traceback.
1741111 checkbox-ng ignores UI type declaration in launcher
1741109 checkbox-ng doesn't know what the hide-automated UI output is

I decided to simply copy/paste the example fully automated launcher and try that. It too fails to do anything it's defined to do (other than automatically running the tests. The launcher, as defined in the docs at

http://checkbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/launcher-tutorial.html

is:

#!/usr/bin/env checkbox-cli

[launcher]
launcher_version = 1
app_id = com.canonical.certification:smoke-test
stock_reports = text

[test plan]
unit = com.canonical.certification::smoke
forced = yes

[test selection]
forced = yes

# ^^ The above parts work.

[ui]
type = silent
# This does not work, it dumps all the standard output to screen.

[transport:out]
type = stream
stream = stdout

[exporter:text]
unit = com.canonical.plainbox::text

[report:screen]
transport = outfile
exporter = text
#^^ this fails with a traceback.