Problem

The Playwright UI smoke tests added in PR #145 are failing in CI (job https://github.com/OpenIdentityPlatform/OpenIDM/actions/runs/24090898599/job/70277045732). All 11 failures come from the same root causes in e2e/ui-smoke-test.spec.mjs:

1. clickDropdownItem times out at line 56 — The navbar dropdown toggle (.navbar-nav a.dropdown-toggle) never becomes visible within 10 seconds. This affects all "Configure dropdown" tests (lines 161–213).
2. "Admin UI login with openidm-admin succeeds" fails (line 73) — The login assertion checking #login field visibility is flaky; after login the field may still briefly exist in the DOM.
3. "Manage dropdown opens and navigates to Users list" times out at line 220 — The Manage dropdown toggle isn't found within the timeout either.

Root Cause

The OpenIDM Admin UI (built on Backbone/jQuery) renders navigation asynchronously after login. The loginToAdmin function only waits for #content or .navbar to exist — but the dropdown links inside the navbar may not yet be rendered at that point. The 10-second timeout in clickDropdownItem is too short for CI environments where the UI renders slower.

Required Changes in e2e/ui-smoke-test.spec.mjs

1. Fix loginToAdmin (line 8–19)

After clicking submit and waiting for #content/.navbar, also wait for .navbar-nav a.dropdown-toggle to become visible with a generous timeout (60s). This ensures the navbar is fully populated before any test proceeds:

async function loginToAdmin(page) {
    await page.goto(`${BASE_URL}/admin/`);
    await page.waitForSelector("#login", { timeout: 30000 });
    await page.fill("#login", ADMIN_USER);
    await page.fill("#password", ADMIN_PASS);
    await page.click("[type=submit], .btn-primary");
    // Wait until the navbar actually contains dropdown toggles,
    // which signals the UI has finished rendering post-login.
    await page.waitForSelector(".navbar-nav a.dropdown-toggle", {
        state: "visible",
        timeout: 60000,
    });
}

2. Fix clickDropdownItem (line 52–62)

Increase the toggle wait timeout from 10s to 30s, and the menu item timeout from 10s to 15s:

async function clickDropdownItem(page, dropdownLabel, itemHref) {
    const toggle = page
        .locator(".navbar-nav a.dropdown-toggle")
        .filter({ hasText: dropdownLabel });
    await toggle.waitFor({ state: "visible", timeout: 30000 });
    await toggle.click();
    const item = page.locator(`.dropdown-menu a[href="${itemHref}"]`).first();
    await item.waitFor({ state: "visible", timeout: 15000 });
    await item.click();
    await page.waitForLoadState("networkidle");
}

3. Fix "Admin UI login with openidm-admin succeeds" test (line 73–78)

Replace the flaky #login visibility check with a positive assertion that navigation appeared:

test("Admin UI login with openidm-admin succeeds", async ({ page }) => {
    await loginToAdmin(page);
    // Instead of checking the login field is gone, assert navigation appeared
    const navToggle = page.locator(".navbar-nav a.dropdown-toggle").first();
    await expect(navToggle).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30000 });
});

4. Fix "Manage dropdown opens and navigates to Users list" test (line 215–234)

Increase the toggle timeout from 10s to 30s:

test("Manage dropdown opens and navigates to Users list", async ({ page }) => {
    const toggle = page
        .locator(".navbar-nav a.dropdown-toggle")
        .filter({ hasText: /^manage$/i });
    await toggle.waitFor({ state: "visible", timeout: 30000 });
    await toggle.click();

    const firstManagedItem = page.locator("a.navigation-managed-object").first();
    await firstManagedItem.waitFor({ state: "visible", timeout: 15000 });

    const usersLink = page.locator('a[href="#resource/managed/user/list/"]').first();
    await usersLink.waitFor({ state: "visible", timeout: 10000 });
    await usersLink.click();
    await page.waitForLoadState("networkidle");
    await assertNoErrors(page);
    expect(page.url()).toContain("managed/user/list");
});

Files to Modify

• e2e/ui-smoke-test.spec.mjs — apply the four changes above

Important

• Do NOT modify any other files
• Do NOT change the test structure or add/remove tests
• Only adjust timeouts and wait conditions as described

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