[Feature] ability group outputs in the trace viewer

[scott-au]

the show steps/fixtures in the trace is certainly a nice feature released in 1.34 - grouping all the associated actions makes a trace file easier to go through.

is there any chance we could also have some sort of mechanism that allows us to group actions together in a similar fashion for users not using playwright test.

[DetachHead]

i looked into this and would like to have a go at implementing it. it seems straightforward, looks like trace events just need the parentId field in the metadata.

i will probably make a step context manager that works the same as the test.step method in @playwright/test

[EldoradoEU]

Any update ? I also looking for similar feature

[DetachHead]

unfortunately it turned out to be more difficult than i thought, so i went with a very hacky solution that's tied to my own project which i can't really share.

@mxschmitt would you happen to have some insight on how i could go about implementing this? do i need to expose TestInfo._addStep to python? if so, how?

[danielmhair]

Grouping outputs is important to what I'm doing but I'm in Python, not typescript. I would love this feature!

[scott-au]

unfortunately it turned out to be more difficult than i thought, so i went with a very hacky solution that's tied to my own project which i can't really share.

@mxschmitt would you happen to have some insight on how i could go about implementing this? do i need to expose TestInfo._addStep to python? if so, how?

@mxschmitt any guidance here ? sounds like @DetachHead is keen to submit a PR

[Snooz82]

this feature should be possible when microsoft/playwright#33081 is merged into Playwright NodeJS.

it introduces a grouping possibility for context.tracing.

Tracing.group('<group_name>')
it also can get a location as test.step but works without Playwright Test.

[Snooz82]

FYI: this feature has just been merged to core!🎊

Hi Dmitry (@dgozman),

is that already automatically added to Playwright-Python?

if so, i think this issue can also be closed.

Thanks
René

[DetachHead]

they have a bot that automatically creates issues for porting changes from the main playwright repo. since your PR is mentioned in #2606 i guess this issue can now be closed

thanks for your work on this! i can finally delete a bunch of hacky patches from my project