Using avocado HTML report for negative filtering

[pevogam]

He HTML results report plugin of avocado has generally been very useful for us throughout the years for filtering out relevant results by status or test name. Something that I have been wondering more and more with time recently however is if there is any way to perform "negative matching" by typing a word in the search box (possibly a special or a regex syntax?) that could remove certain repeated test fails/errors. Does anyone know if this is easily possible?

[richtja]

Hi @pevogam, AFAIK this is not possible right now because avocado uses datatables 1.10.2 version for HTML report which doesn't have this feature. We could enable the negative search and more by updating the datatables 2 which has this kind of features, but right now I can't consider how difficult it would be. If you are interested, you could investigate the possibilities of such update.

[clebergnu]

I like the idea, would welcome both the update of datatables and all the features that will come with it.

[pevogam]

@lmr How difficult do you think an endeavor like this is going to be? Is it just a matter of simple replacement of a few javascript libraries (plug and play HTML plugin) or perhaps it will have a lot more adapted interfacing involved?

[pevogam]

Alright, I went ahead and did this in #6091, I hope you enjoy the advanced search that datatables 2 offers!