how to send screenshots from robotframework to reportportal - robotframework

Question

I have a robot testcase to upgrade my box...
If there is any error, the robot framework takes the screen shot and saves the screenshot.png in reports dirctory..
Now how do i send it to reportportal.in
I am passing the reportportal info while running the robot like below..
robot --outputDir /opt/robotframework/reports --listener robotframework_reportportal.listener -v RP_UUID:07-aeb0-315c81358edd -v RP_ENDPOINT:http://<reportportalipaddress>:8080 -v RP_LAUNCH:TEST_UPGRADE -v RP_PROJECT:TEST_UPGRADE /opt/robotframework/tests
My robot testcase
***Test Cases***
FROM_GUI
Close All Browsers
Open Browser ${URL} gc
Input Text name:username admin
Input Password name:password &{${CPE}}[cpe_password]
Click Button name:Continue
Log to Console Inside GUI ${uploadPath}//${uploadFile}
input text name=uploadFile ${uploadPath}//${uploadFile}
Page Should Contain firmware update is in progress
sleep 10 seconds
click link link=Logout
Close All Browsers
Sleep 180 seconds
with open("../", "rb") as image_file:
file_data = image_file.read()
rp_logger.info("Some Text Here",
attachment={"name": "selenium-screenshot-1.png",
"data": file_data,
"mime": "image/png"})
[Teardown]
In Report portal
I just see the below, can't see the screenshot
</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><img src="selenium-screenshot-1.png" width="800px">

Answer 1

I have tried 2 ways to do this (there can be more):
To embed the image into the report and it would also be embedded to the reportportal report.
Using the Run-on-failure functionality provided by SeleniumLibrary:
SeleniumLibrary has a handy feature that it can automatically execute a keyword if any of its own keywords fails. By default, it uses the Capture Page Screenshot
keyword. More info is available on the official documentation
By default the Capture Page Screenshot has the value for file name as
filename = selenium-screenshot-{index}.png
You can provide a custom keyword to the run_on_failure argument while loading the Selenium library.
In the custom keyword call the Capture Page Screenshot with filename=EMBED as shown below.
*** Settings ***
Library SeleniumLibrary run_on_failure=Capture Screenshot and embed it into the report
*** Keywords ***
Capture Screenshot and embed it into the report
Capture Page Screenshot filename=EMBED
Note: When you embed the image into the report, the image file will not be present as a separate file in your Result folder.
Capturing the screenshot and sending it as an attachment:
Create a custom python library with the below function robotframework-reportportal documentation , eg: utilityLib.py:
from robotframework_reportportal import logger
#keyword
def send_attachment_to_report_portal(path):
with open(path, "rb") as image_file:
file_data = image_file.read()
logger.info("Some Text Here",
attachment={"name": "test_name_screenshot.png",
"data": file_data,
"mime": "image/png"})
Similar to the steps in the 1st solution: Call the custom keyword via the Run-on-failure functionality
*** Settings ***
Library SeleniumLibrary run_on_failure=Capture Screenshot and attach it to reportportal
Library utilityLib.py
*** Keywords ***
Capture Screenshot and attach it to reportportal
${path} = Capture Page Screenshot
Send attachment to report portal ${path}