Robot Framework: How to sort by - robotframework

I have a webpage with a combobox to sort a list by Price, Name,... The list is in many pages, so I need to get all elements first and after, I will sort by and check if the elements are correct. Right?
I am trying to do it and navigate for all pages and get all elements. But it is only taking the elements in first page. I am totally new in Robot framework.
Does anyone have a suggestion how I can do it?
${name_list_actual} Create List
${cnt_pages}= Get Element Count //div[#class='container index-new-p']/div/nav[#class='text-center']/ul/li/*
Log To Console ${cnt_pages}
:FOR ${n} IN RANGE 1 ${cnt_pages}
\ Click link //div[#class='container index-new-p']/div/nav/ul/li[${n}]/a
\ ${cnt}= Get Element Count //*[#class="title"]/*
:FOR ${i} IN RANGE 1 ${cnt}
\ ${get_names} Get Element Attribute //table[#class='result-table']/tbody/tr[${i}]/td/div/div[2]/div/a text
\ Append To List ${name_list_actual} ${get_names}
${get_names}= Select All From List //table[#class='result-table']/tbody/tr[${i}]/td/div/div[2]/div/a
\ Log To Console ${name_list_actual}
\ Continue For Loop
Thanks so much

First and foremost, by your code sample's indent it looks like you're doing nested for loops - an outer one for the changing the pages, and an inner that'll get the text in each row. The thing is - Robot Framework doesn't support nested for loops - see the documentation.
What happened on execution is the first loop (the pagination) ran with just two statements and finished:
\ Click link //div[#class='container index-new-p']/div/nav/ul/li[${n}]/a
\ ${cnt}= Get Element Count //*[#class="title"]/*
Then all the rest were executed as part of the second.
A solution would be to have a keyword "Get All Values In The Table" that'll hold the inner loop, and call it in the current outer, which will paginate.
Another issue - you're using IN RANGE, passing 1 as start and ${cnt} as end; if it had value of 4, you probably expect the tracking variable to get all values from 1 to 4.
Yet range works with the first argument inclusive, and up to - but not getting to - the second argument; thus it covers the range 1 to 3. To salvage that, you'd need to set the upper bound to cnt+1, e.g. ${cnt + 1}.
Minor stuff:
You have a statement that's within the loop block, but not prefixed with \:
${get_names}= Select All From List //table[#class='result-table']/tbody/tr[${i}]/td/div/div[2]/div/a
I'm surprised it didn't give you a syntax error - it effectively breaks the loop, and the framework should complain the next lines are prefixed as if in a loop, but one is not started.
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When you are changing the pages by the click, you are not making sure the UI has loaded the data for the new page. If this happens through ajax calls, you may very well be working with the previous page's data, thinking it is the new one - the selenium click returns control very fast, and the operands for getting the text are running - while the UI still waits for the new data and is displaying the previous one.
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In RF version 3.1 the loop syntax is different - the block members are not prefixed with \, and it's closed with an END statement.
I'd suggest to migrate to it - a) the current one is going to be eventually deprecated, and b) in the new one the nesting would have been marked as syntax error (you're starting a new loop without END-ing the running one), instead of silently passing with unexpected behavior.

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Sabre Scribe Scripting Specifically Looping

Anybody have any tips for looping, and continue? For example, I placed about 2500 pnrs on a queue, and I need to add a remark to each of them. Is it possible for a script to add the remark then move to the next pnr?
For example, I placed about 2500 pnrs on a queue, and I need to add a remark to each of them. Is it possible for a script to add the remark then move to the next pnr?
Loops are supported in Scribe but have to be built manually by creating your own iteration variables and breaking the loop manually when you know the work is complete.
What you are describing is definitely possible, but working in queues can be difficult as there are many possible responses when you try to end the PNRs. You'll have to capture the response to detect whether you need to do something else to get out of the error condition (e.g. if a PNR warning indicates you have to double-end the record).
If possible, its likely simpler to work off the queue by collecting all PNR locators and then looping through that list, adding your remarks, and then ending the PNRs. You'll still have to capture the response to determine if the PNR is actually ended properly, but you won't have to deal with the buggy queue behavior. A basic Scribe loop sample is below. Note that I haven't been a Scribe developer for a while and I did this in Notepad so there might be some errors in here, but hopefully it's a good starting point.
DEFINE [ROW=N:8] ;iteration variable/counter
DEFINE [LOCATOR_FILE=*:60] ;File Path
DEFINE [TEMP_LOCATOR=*:6] ;pnr locator variable, read from the temp file
DEFINE [BREAK=*:1] ;loop breaking variable
OPEN F=[TEMP_LOCATOR] L=0 ;open the file of locators
[BREAK] = ""
[ROW] = 0
REPEAT
[ROW] = [ROW] + 1
[TEMP_LOCATOR] = "" ;Reset temp locator variable, this will break our loop
READ F=[LOCATOR_FILE] R=[ROW] C=1 [TEMP_LOCATOR]
IF $[TEMP_LOCATOR] = 6 THEN ;test length of locator, if this is 6 chars, you have a good one, pull it up and add your remark
»"5YOUR REMARK HERE"{ENTER}«
»ER{ENTER}«
;trap errors
READ F="EMUFIND:" R=0 C=0 [TEMP_LOCATOR] ;read for the locator being present on this screen, which should indicate that the ER was successful - you'll have to trap other errors here though
IF [#SYSTEM_ERROR] = 0 THEN ;this locator was found, ER appears successful
»I{ENTER}« ;Ignore this PNR and move to the next one
ELSE
[BREAK] = "Y" ;error found afeter ER, break loop. Maybe show a popup box or something, up to you
ENDIF
ELSE ;No locator found in file, break the loop
[BREAK] = "Y"
ENDIF
UNTIL [BREAK] = "Y"
CLOSE [LOCATOR_FILE]

How to loop on a table column?

Badly need your help. In Vehicle ID column, I would like to find a vehicle and once it finds it, it will click on it... How can I do that in Robot Framework? What approach should i be using?
For looping in table you can use xpath easily:
*** Test Cases ***
Stackoverflow Test
[Tags] #InDevelop
Go To https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
Wait Until Element Is Visible id=customers ${global_timeout}
:FOR ${index} IN RANGE 2 8
\ Wait Until Element Is Visible xpath=//*[#id="customers"]/tbody/tr[${index}]/td[1] ${global_timeout}
\ ${var} = Get Text xpath=//*[#id="customers"]/tbody/tr[${index}]/td[1]
\ Log ${var}
In order to click the correct element, you probably need to compare the variable content with your expected value. That can be done this way:
${areYouMyLine} = Run Keyword and Return Status Should Be Equal As Strings ${var} Island Trading
Run Keyword If ${areYouMyLine} Click Elementxpath=//*[#id="customers"]/tbody/tr[${index}]/td[1]
And also don't forget to Exit your For Loop since you found your element.
Exit For Loop
However this is not the best practice. You probably should go to your product team asking for some data attributes which will help you to find your line. Alternatively, if you know your table content, put it into a list and use For In Loop instead. Good stuff about loops can be found here: https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2013/05/robot-framework-tutorial-loops-conditional-execution-and-more/

ZSH avoid adding empty commands to history?

In zsh (with oh-my-zsh, is that matters) when I enter empty commands (e.g. just press enter) I see empty lines added to my ~/.zsh_history:
: 1508496422:0;ls
: 1508496422:0;vim
: 1508496482:0;
: 1508496482:0;
: 1508496482:0;
: 1508496482:0;
: 1508496490:0;
: 1508496490:0;
: 1508496490:0;
: 1508496490:0;
: 1508496494:0;ls
I'm wondering if it's possible to avoid adding these lines. I checked http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Options.html but no luck. The reason why I'm trying to avoid adding empty lines is I'm using fzf and fzf lists these empty commands when I search in last commands in a directory.
If this is not possible in zsh side I'll try to search for a solution in fzf side.
There are a few Zsh settings to control what goes into your history
(though I'm surprised emtpies end up there; I can't reproduce that
despite also using fzf and hitting blank RETs a lot).
The man page for zshoptions(1) describes:
HIST_IGNORE_[ALL_]DUPS — This should at least reduce your
consecutive multiple empties down to one.
HIST_IGNORE_SPACE — Your empties might be treated as whitespace
and thus be eliminated. I like this feature anyway for intentionall
discarding commands by starting them with a space.
There is also the HISTORY_IGNORE option (not to be confused with
Bash's HISTIGNORE) — described in zshparam(1) with an example —
which lets you remove a set of patterns. An empty pattern may fix
your case. It also has a zshaddhistory hook that you could use to
more finely control exactly what goes into history.

Qt error is printed on the console; how to see where it originates from?

I'm getting this on the console in a QML app:
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (0.000000), must be greater than 0
The app is not crashing so I can't use the debugger to get a backtrace for the exception. How do I see where the error originates from?
If you know the function the warning occurs in (in this case, QFont::setPointSizeF()), you can put a breakpoint there. Following the stack trace will lead you to the code that calls that function.
If the warning doesn't include the name of the function and you have the source code available, use git grep with part of the warning to get an idea of where it comes from. This approach can be a bit of trial and error, as the code may span more than one line, etc, and so you might have to try different parts of the string.
If the warning doesn't include the name of the function, you don't have the source code available and/or you don't like the previous approach, use the QT_MESSAGE_PATTERN environment variable:
QT_MESSAGE_PATTERN="%{function}: %{message}"
For the full list of variables at your disposal, see the qSetMessagePattern() docs:
%{appname} - QCoreApplication::applicationName()
%{category} - Logging category
%{file} - Path to source file
%{function} - Function
%{line} - Line in source file
%{message} - The actual message
%{pid} - QCoreApplication::applicationPid()
%{threadid} - The system-wide ID of current thread (if it can be obtained)
%{qthreadptr} - A pointer to the current QThread (result of QThread::currentThread())
%{type} - "debug", "warning", "critical" or "fatal"
%{time process} - time of the message, in seconds since the process started (the token "process" is literal)
%{time boot} - the time of the message, in seconds since the system boot if that can be determined (the token "boot" is literal). If the time since boot could not be obtained, the output is indeterminate (see QElapsedTimer::msecsSinceReference()).
%{time [format]} - system time when the message occurred, formatted by passing the format to QDateTime::toString(). If the format is not specified, the format of Qt::ISODate is used.
%{backtrace [depth=N] [separator="..."]} - A backtrace with the number of frames specified by the optional depth parameter (defaults to 5), and separated by the optional separator parameter (defaults to "|"). This expansion is available only on some platforms (currently only platfoms using glibc). Names are only known for exported functions. If you want to see the name of every function in your application, use QMAKE_LFLAGS += -rdynamic. When reading backtraces, take into account that frames might be missing due to inlining or tail call optimization.
On an unrelated note, the %{time [format]} placeholder is quite useful to quickly "profile" code by qDebug()ing before and after it.
I think you can use qInstallMessageHandler (Qt5) or qInstallMsgHandler (Qt4) to specify a callback which will intercept all qDebug() / qInfo() / etc. messages (example code is in the link). Then you can just add a breakpoint in this callback function and get a nice callstack.
Aside from the obvious, searching your code for calls to setPointSize[F], you can try the following depending on your environment (which you didn't disclose):
If you have the debugging symbols of the Qt libs installed and are using a decent debugger, you can set a conditional breakpoint on the first line in QFont::setPointSizeF() with the condition set to pointSize <= 0. Even if conditional breakpoints don't work you should still be able to set one and step through every call until you've found the culprit.
On Linux there's the tool ltrace which displays all calls of a binary into shared libs, and I suppose there's something similar in the M$ VS toolbox. You can grep the output for calls to setPointSize directly, but of course this won't work for calls within the lib itself (which I guess could be the case when it handles the QML internally).

How to insert text into middle of text file in QT?

I'm writing a program that performs several tests on a hardware unit, and logs both the results of each test and the steps taken to perform the test. The trick is that I want the program to log these results to a text file as they become available, so that if the program crashes the results that had been obtained are not lost, and the log can help debug the crash.
For example, assume a program consisting of two tests. If the program has finished the first test and is working on the second, the log file would look like:
Results:
Test 1 Result A: Passed
Test 1 Result B: 1.5 Volts
Log:
Setting up instruments.
Beginning test 1.
[Steps in test 1]
Finished test 1.
Beginning test 2.
[whatever test 2 steps have been completed]
Once the second test has finished, the log file would look like this:
Results:
Test 1 Result A: Passed
Test 1 Result B: 1.5 Volts
Test 2 Result A: Passed
Test 2 Result B: 2.0 Volts
Log:
Setting up instruments.
Beginning test 1.
[Steps in test 1]
Finished test 1.
Beginning test 2.
[Steps in test 2]
Finished test 2.
All tests complete.
How would I go about doing this? I've been looking at the help files for QFile and QTextStream, but I'm not seeing a way to insert text in the middle of existing text. I don't want to create separate files and merge them at the end because I'd end up with separate files in the event of a crash. I also don't want to write the file from scratch every time a change is made because it seems like there should be a faster, more elegant way of doing this.
QFile.readAll will read the entire file into a QByteArray.
On the QByteArray you can then use insert to insert text in the middle,
and then write it back to file again.
Or you could use the classic c style that can modify files in the middle with the help of filepointers.
As #Roku pointed out, there is no built in way to insert data in a file with a rewrite. However if you know the size of the region, i.e., if the text you want to write has a fixed length, then you can write an empty space in the file and replace it later. Check
this discussion in overwriting part of a file.
I ended up going with the "write the file from scratch" method that I mentioned being hesitant about in my question. The benefit of this technique is that it results in a single file, even in the event of a crash since the log and the results are never placed in different files to begin with. Additionally, rewriting the file only happens when adding new results (an infrequent occurrence), whereas updating the log means simply appending text to the file as usual. I'm still a bit surprised that there isn't a way to have the OS insert text into a file for you.
Oh, and for those of you who absolutely must have this functionality as efficiently as possible, the following might be of use:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/17716/Insert-Text-into-Existing-Files-in-C-Without-Temp
You just cannot add more stuff in the middle of a file. I would go with two separate files, another for the results and another for the logs.

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