I have used ${SUITE NAME} tag. It is giving the Suite name along with the path as
"Robotframework.TestSuites.foldername.testsuitename". I need suite name only. How can I get that?
${the name}= Set Variable ${SUITE NAME}
# split the output on every . character
${the name}= Split String ${the name} separator=.
# get the last member of the split
${the name}= Set Variable #{the name}[-1]
Log To Console ${the name} # prints testsuitename in your example
P.S. It'll get nasty if you use dots in your suite names.
You can do that in-line as well.
${SUITE NAME.rsplit('.')[0]}
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Here I want to pass only specific variable value and should get other values as default but I am not getting that...
Ex: I want to pass only word2 variable value and want to get word1 value as default Like "Hello See"
*** Keywords ***
Check order
[Arguments] ${word1}=Hello ${word2}=World
log to console word1 is : ${word1}
log to console word2 is : ${word2}
*** Test Cases ***
Test case 1
Check order ${word2}=See
Test case 1 | FAIL |
Variable '${word2}' not found.
The way to do this is to use only the variable name to the left of the equals:
Check order word2=see
This is from the robot framework user guide, in a section titled Named arguments
When the named argument syntax is used with user keywords, the argument names must be given without the ${} decoration. For example, user keyword with arguments ${arg1}=first, ${arg2}=second must be used like arg2=override.
I'm writing a test case in robot framework. I'm getting the response in below json string:
{"responseTimeStamp":"1970-01-01T05:30:00",
"statusCode":"200",
"statusMsg":"200",
"_object":{"id":"TS82",
"name":"newgroup",
"desc":"ttesteste",
"parentGroups":[],
"childGroups":[],
"devices":null,
"mos":null,
"groupConfigRules" {
"version":null,
"ruleContents":null
},
"applications":null,"type":0
}
}
From that I want to take "_object" using:
${reqresstr} = ${response['_object']}
... but am getting the error "No keyword with name '=' found" error
If I try the following:
${reqresstr}= ${response['_object']}
... I'm getting the error "Keyword name cannot be empty." I tried removing the '=' but still get the same error.
How can I extract '_object' from that json string?
When using the "=" for variable assignment with the space-separated format, you must make sure you have no more than a single space before the "=". Your first example shows that you've got more than one space on either side of the "=". You must have only a single space before the = and two or more after, or robot will think the spaces are a separator between a keyword and argument.
For the "keyword must not be empty" error, the first cell after a variable name must be a keyword. Unlike traditional programming languages, you cannot directly assign a string to a variable.
To set a variable to a string you need to use the Set Variable keyword (or one of the variations such as Set Test Variable). For example:
${reqresstr}= Set variable ${response['_object']}
${reqresstr}= '${response["_object"]}'
wrap it inside quotes and two spaces after =
There is a syntax error in your command. Make sure there is a space between ${reqresstr} and =.
Using your example above:
${reqresstr} = ${response['_object']}
Situation.. I have two tags defined, then I try to output them to the console. What comes out seems to be similar to an array, but I'd like to remove the formatting and just have the actual words outputted.
Here's what I currently have:
[Tags] ready ver10
Log To Console \n#{TEST TAGS}
And the result is
['ready', 'ver10']
So, how would I chuck the [', the ', ' and the '], thus only retaining the words ready and ver10?
Note: I was getting [u'ready', u'ver10'] - but once I got some advice to make sure I was running Python3 RobotFramework - after uninstalling robotframework via pip, and now only having robotframework installed via pip3, the u has vanished. That's great!
There are several ways to do it. For example, you could use a loop, or you could convert the list to a string before calling log to console
Using a loop.
Since the data is a list, it's easy to iterate over the list:
FOR ${tag} IN #{Test Tags}
log to console ${tag}
END
Converting to a string
You can use the evaluate keyword to convert the list to a string of values separated by a newline. Note: you have to use two backslashes in the call to evaluate since both robot and python use the backslash as an escape character. So, the first backslash escapes the second so that python will see \n and convert it to a newline.
${tags}= evaluate "\\n".join($test_tags)
log to console \n${tags}
I'm trying to ask a user to insert a filepath and then output the result to that filepath:
DEFINE VARIABLE outputPath AS CHARACTER FORMAT "x(50)".
UPDATE outputPath.
OUTPUT TO outputPath.
This doesn't seem to be working. But when I do for example:
OUTPUT TO "C:\temp\test.txt".
It seems to work.
To use the value of a variable in an OUTPUT statement:
OUTPUT TO VALUE( outputPath ).
VALUE is also used with INPUT FROM, INPUT THROUGH and INPUT-OUTPUT THROUGH.
(A "naked" variable name will be treated as a file name, no quotes needed -- a result of one of those "makes a good demo" decisions 30 years ago...)
How Can we use value returned from one keyword as input argument to other keyword directly (without assigning return value to variable)
Currently I am maintaining all Web Elements or Variable names and corresponding xpath in an Excel Sheet. I get XPath using keyword read_xpath by passing web element/variable name as argument.
I store the xpath in separate variable then make use of it for other or Next line keyword. Since I need to use a variable for each XPath access, i am trying to find out, whether is there any way to directly use one keyword output as input to other keyword without assigning it to variable.
The main purpose of storing XPath in Excel sheet is to avoid multiple test cases change with single Element XPath change, making just single change on Excel Sheet should be sufficient.
For Example:
read_xpath reads values from a Excel sheet, Excel sheet has two columns, one variable name and second one is xpath. Function read_xpath(element) takes variable name as input and gives back xpath.
xlread.py file looks like xlread.py code Excel Sheet look like Excel sheet
sample.robot file looks as below
${login_user_textctrl}= read_xpath username_textctrl
clear element text ${login_user_textctrl}
Input text ${login_user_textctrl} admin
Now let us check how I used read_xpath keyword in my robot file
I called Keyword read_xpath with argument username_texctrl, which returns xpath for username text Control which is stored in variable ${login_user_textctrl}. Now Input Text ${login_user_textctrl} admin works fine.
For below code
clear element text read_xpath username_textctrl
I am getting, clear element text requires 1 argument but two arguments provided, is there any way i can use the the value returned from Keyword(read_xpath) as input to other keyword directly, without assigning it to any variable?
Thanks in advance.
Separating your locators from your robot code through an Object Repository is often done when the locators are reused a lot. An alternative implementation paradigm is to use the Page Object Model. An example of such an implementation can be found in the Robotframework-PageObjectLibrary.
In case you still prefer the Object Repository approach, then using the Selenium2Library keyword Add Location Strategy might be of interest to you. Below is a working example which uses a YAML file as it's OR to fetch the search input box and search button from Google.
ObjectRepo.yaml
OR:
searchbox: '//input[#id="lst-ib"]'
searchbutton: '//button[#id="_fZl"]'
Robot Script
*** Settings ***
Library Selenium2Library
Variables ObjectRepo.yaml
*** Test Cases ***
Yaml Object Repository
[Setup] Add Location Strategy yro Yaml Locator Strategy
Open Browser http://www.google.com Chrome
Input Text yro=searchbox Robot Framework
Click Element yro=searchbutton
Sleep 3s
[Teardown] Close All Browsers
*** Keywords ***
Yaml Locator Strategy
[Arguments] ${browser} ${criteria} ${tag} ${constraints}
${xpath}= Set Variable ${OR.${criteria}}
${retVal}= Get Webelement xpath=${xpath}
[Return] ${retVal}
As you can see the abstraction through a custom locator keyword allows for clearner code and not require you to fetch into a variable for later reuse.
You can use Evaluate to call python functions directly. Example:
${my element to clear}= Evaluate read_xpath("username_textctrl") xlread
See the documentation here
(Note: Example is untested and you should check if xlread is in PYTHONPATH, or found at test run time)