[ftr] support --kibana-install-dir flag (#44552) (#44935)

* [ftr] support --kibana-install-dir flag

* improve spacing/style of success message

* Remove unused var

packages/kbn-dev-utils/src/index.ts

@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ export { withProcRunner } from './proc_runner';
 export { ToolingLog, ToolingLogTextWriter, pickLevelFromFlags } from './tooling_log';
 export { createAbsolutePathSerializer } from './serializers';
 export { CA_CERT_PATH, ES_KEY_PATH, ES_CERT_PATH } from './certs';
-export { run, createFailError, createFlagError, combineErrors, isFailError } from './run';
+export { run, createFailError, createFlagError, combineErrors, isFailError, Flags } from './run';
 export { REPO_ROOT } from './constants';

packages/kbn-dev-utils/src/run/index.ts

@@ -18,4 +18,5 @@
  */
 
 export { run } from './run';
+export { Flags } from './flags';
 export { createFailError, createFlagError, combineErrors, isFailError } from './fail';

packages/kbn-test/src/functional_test_runner/cli.ts

@@ -18,24 +18,36 @@
  */
 
 import { resolve } from 'path';
-import { run } from '@kbn/dev-utils';
+import { run, createFlagError, Flags } from '@kbn/dev-utils';
 import { FunctionalTestRunner } from './functional_test_runner';
 
+const makeAbsolutePath = (v: string) => resolve(process.cwd(), v);
+const toArray = (v: string | string[]) => ([] as string[]).concat(v || []);
+const parseInstallDir = (flags: Flags) => {
+  const flag = flags['kibana-install-dir'];
+
+  if (typeof flag !== 'string' && flag !== undefined) {
+    throw createFlagError('--kibana-install-dir must be a string or not defined');
+  }
+
+  return flag ? makeAbsolutePath(flag) : undefined;
+};
+
 export function runFtrCli() {
   run(
     async ({ flags, log }) => {
-      const resolveConfigPath = (v: string) => resolve(process.cwd(), v);
-      const toArray = (v: string | string[]) => ([] as string[]).concat(v || []);
-
       const functionalTestRunner = new FunctionalTestRunner(
         log,
-        resolveConfigPath(flags.config as string),
+        makeAbsolutePath(flags.config as string),
         {
           mochaOpts: {
             bail: flags.bail,
             grep: flags.grep || undefined,
             invert: flags.invert,
           },
+          kbnTestServer: {
+            installDir: parseInstallDir(flags),
+          },
           suiteTags: {
             include: toArray(flags['include-tag'] as string | string[]),
             exclude: toArray(flags['exclude-tag'] as string | string[]),
@@ -84,7 +96,7 @@ export function runFtrCli() {
     },
     {
       flags: {
-        string: ['config', 'grep', 'exclude', 'include-tag', 'exclude-tag'],
+        string: ['config', 'grep', 'exclude', 'include-tag', 'exclude-tag', 'kibana-install-dir'],
         boolean: ['bail', 'invert', 'test-stats', 'updateBaselines'],
         default: {
           config: 'test/functional/config.js',
@@ -100,6 +112,7 @@ export function runFtrCli() {
         --exclude-tag=tag  a tag to be excluded, pass multiple times for multiple tags
         --test-stats       print the number of tests (included and excluded) to STDERR
         --updateBaselines  replace baseline screenshots with whatever is generated from the test
+        --kibana-install-dir  directory where the Kibana install being tested resides
       `,
       },
     }

packages/kbn-test/src/functional_test_runner/lib/config/schema.ts

@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ export const schema = Joi.object()
         buildArgs: Joi.array(),
         sourceArgs: Joi.array(),
         serverArgs: Joi.array(),
+        installDir: Joi.string(),
       })
       .default(),
 

packages/kbn-test/src/functional_tests/lib/run_ftr.js

@@ -20,14 +20,20 @@
 import { FunctionalTestRunner, readConfigFile } from '../../functional_test_runner';
 import { CliError } from './run_cli';
 
-async function createFtr({ configPath, options: { log, bail, grep, updateBaselines, suiteTags } }) {
+async function createFtr({
+  configPath,
+  options: { installDir, log, bail, grep, updateBaselines, suiteTags },
+}) {
   const config = await readConfigFile(log, configPath);
 
   return new FunctionalTestRunner(log, configPath, {
     mochaOpts: {
       bail: !!bail,
       grep,
     },
+    kbnTestServer: {
+      installDir,
+    },
     updateBaselines,
     suiteTags: {
       include: [...suiteTags.include, ...config.get('suiteTags.include')],

packages/kbn-test/src/functional_tests/tasks.js

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import { relative } from 'path';
 import * as Rx from 'rxjs';
 import { startWith, switchMap, take } from 'rxjs/operators';
 import { withProcRunner } from '@kbn/dev-utils';
+import dedent from 'dedent';
 
 import {
   runElasticsearch,
@@ -33,14 +34,20 @@ import {
 
 import { readConfigFile } from '../functional_test_runner/lib';
 
-const SUCCESS_MESSAGE = `
+const makeSuccessMessage = options => {
+  const installDirFlag = options.installDir ? ` --kibana-install-dir=${options.installDir}` : '';
 
-Elasticsearch and Kibana are ready for functional testing. Start the functional tests
-in another terminal session by running this command from this directory:
+  return (
+    '\n\n' +
+    dedent`
+      Elasticsearch and Kibana are ready for functional testing. Start the functional tests
+      in another terminal session by running this command from this directory:
 
-    node ${relative(process.cwd(), KIBANA_FTR_SCRIPT)}
-
-`;
+          node ${relative(process.cwd(), KIBANA_FTR_SCRIPT)}${installDirFlag}
+    ` +
+    '\n\n'
+  );
+};
 
 /**
  * Run servers and tests for each config
@@ -118,15 +125,15 @@ export async function startServers(options) {
 
     // wait for 5 seconds of silence before logging the
     // success message so that it doesn't get buried
-    await silence(5000, { log });
-    log.info(SUCCESS_MESSAGE);
+    await silence(log, 5000);
+    log.success(makeSuccessMessage(options));
 
     await procs.waitForAllToStop();
     await es.cleanup();
   });
 }
 
-async function silence(milliseconds, { log }) {
+async function silence(log, milliseconds) {
   await log
     .getWritten$()
     .pipe(