New pyauto automation hook to get browser process information.

chrome/test/pyautolib/pyauto.py

Index: chrome/test/pyautolib/pyauto.py
diff --git a/chrome/test/pyautolib/pyauto.py b/chrome/test/pyautolib/pyauto.py
index c8b5270fa57f3c564e30e54e80d42d2bf5872c2b..0059df122a63db39200a9168cc3dc83d1a07515e 100644
--- a/chrome/test/pyautolib/pyauto.py
+++ b/chrome/test/pyautolib/pyauto.py
@@ -1381,6 +1381,65 @@ class PyUITest(pyautolib.PyUITestBase, unittest.TestCase):
     }
     return self._GetResultFromJSONRequest(cmd_dict, windex=-1)
 
+  def GetProcessInfo(self):
+    """Returns information about browser-related processes that currently exist.
+
+    This will also return information about other currently-running browsers
+    besides just Chrome.
+
+    Returns:
+      A dictionary containing browser-related process information as identified
+      by class MemoryDetails in src/chrome/browser/memory_details.h.  The
+      dictionary contains a single key 'browsers', mapped to a list of
+      dictionaries containing information about each browser process name.

[Nirnimesh, 2011/09/21 22:42:35]

do you expect multiple browser processes?

[dennis_jeffrey, 2011/09/22 18:25:35]

Yes.  It doesn't seem to happen on Linux or ChromeOS, but I noticed on the
Win/Mac trybots that we get browser entries returned for other browsers like IE,
Firefox, and Safari.

+      Each of those dictionaries contains a key 'processes', mapped to a list
+      of dictionaries containing the specific information for each process
+      with the given process name.
+
+      The memory values given in |committed_mem| and |working_set_mem| are in
+      KBytes.
+
+      Sample:
+      { 'browsers': [ { 'name': 'Chromium',
+                        'process_name': 'chrome',
+                        'processes': [ { 'child_process_type': 'Browser',
+                                         'committed_mem': { 'image': 0,
+                                                            'mapped': 0,
+                                                            'priv': 0},
+                                         'is_diagnostics': False,
+                                         'num_processes': 1,
+                                         'pid': 7770,
+                                         'product_name': '',
+                                         'renderer_type': 'Unknown',
+                                         'titles': [],
+                                         'version': '',
+                                         'working_set_mem': { 'priv': 43672,
+                                                              'shareable': 0,
+                                                              'shared': 59251}},
+                                       { 'child_process_type': 'Tab',
+                                         'committed_mem': { 'image': 0,
+                                                            'mapped': 0,
+                                                            'priv': 0},
+                                         'is_diagnostics': False,
+                                         'num_processes': 1,
+                                         'pid': 7791,
+                                         'product_name': '',
+                                         'renderer_type': 'Tab',
+                                         'titles': ['about:blank'],
+                                         'version': '',
+                                         'working_set_mem': { 'priv': 16768,
+                                                              'shareable': 0,
+                                                              'shared': 26256}},
+                                       ...<more processes>...]}]}
+
+    Raises:
+      pyauto_errors.JSONInterfaceError if the automation call returns an error.
+    """
+    cmd_dict = {  # Prepare command for the json interface.
+      'command': 'GetProcessInfo',
+    }
+    return self._GetResultFromJSONRequest(cmd_dict, windex=-1)
+
   def GetNavigationInfo(self, tab_index=0, windex=0):
     """Get info about the navigation state of a given tab.