Bug 334514

Description Markus Tiede 2011-01-17 09:10:03 EST

The client and remote control usage of parameter-lists within a single parameter value should be unified / restricted: currently there are two ways to specify a test e.g. to select the first and second element from a given list (a; b; c; d):
 1. select index from list; index: "1, 2"
 2.1. select index from list; index: "1";
 2.2. select index from list; index: "2"; extend selection "true"

Some time ago we added the second way to replace the first one as it is not really user friendly. Due to the necessity to mask functional characters for the client the first way of specifying test data may be complicated, e.g. for the list ( 1; 1, 2; 2; 2, 3; 3):
 1. select value from list; value: "1\, 2, 2\, 3"
 2.1. select value from list; value: "1\, 2"
 2.2. select value from list; value: "2\, 3"; extend selection "true"
 
I suggest to completely remove the "," as a functional character to specifiy a list of parameters for a single parameter-value. In future:
 1.1. select value from list; value: "1, 2"
 1.2. select value from list; value: "2, 3"; extend selection "true"
 
Things to keep in mind when adressing this issue:
 - backwards compatibility / migration plan for existing projects