tree a75b7383d0285ee73db59fbc8f650221ef2b3087
parent a6dda25ac90b7ce6a9afa7da6cc86fade59f9ebf
author Svet Ganov <svetoslavganov@google.com> 1529969963 -0700
committer Sooraj Sasindran <sasindran@google.com> 1550779154 +0000

Allow UiAutomation to adopt the shell permission indentity

For testing we often need to run shell commands. This can be done
today via running a shell command from an instrumentation test
started from the shell. However, this requires adding shell commands
which are not in the API contract, involve boilerplate code, require
string parsing, etc.

This change allows an instrumentation started from the shell to
adopt the shell UID permission state. As a result one can call APIs
protected by permissions normal apps cannot get by are granted to
the shell. This enables adding dedicated test APIs protected by
signatures permissions  granted to the shell.

Test: cts-tradefed run cts-dev -m CtsUiAutomationTestCases
          -t android.app.uiautomation.cts.UiAutomationTest#testAdoptShellPermissions

bug:80415658

Merged-In: I4bfd4b475225125512abf80ea98cd8fcacb6a1be
Change-Id: I4bfd4b475225125512abf80ea98cd8fcacb6a1be