Hey guys, thank you in advance and I’m sorry if my english is not perfect. I’ve read some parts of Robot doc but I can’t find exactly what I’m looking for. In my project I have a “test descriptor” written in YAML, and we want to pass some variables/arguments (with specific values) to our Robot test…

Hi Retourned, everything you are wanting to do is documented in the documentation I referenced in my previous post, here is a working example, create these three files, run robot Retourned.robot and look at the log, hopefully everything will be clear: Retourned.yaml: string: Hello, world! integ…

I am not sure I understand what you mean to be honest. Here is how I pass the variables I need when I run the tests robot --outputdir results --variable ENV:test --variable email:test@tests.com tests/00__GUI_Tests/02__Something.robot Or when I run the tests using docker, I pass the variables insi…

Hey! Thank you so much for your answer. I learned some things from it. But what I mean is that we already have a YAML file which contains a lot of things, etc etc, AND the values I want as variables in robot. So I want to read/pass the variables to the robot test, and then use these variables insi…

Yes, by passing the variables in the execution command you can use them inside the tests (they will be Global variables then). Just make sure you do make those variables actually available for other scripts to use.

Hi Retourned, I’m also not exactly sure what you are asking, but I think this section of the documentation most closely matches what you seem to be trying to do: resource-and-variable-files Implementing variable file as Python or Java class Variable file as YAML If so, give some example of what…

Dave, you literally solved my life right now. I have a lot of other things to do, and that Robot part has been very stressful for me since I had not use it a lot. Thank you!!!

Hi Retourned, When you get some time, read the documentation for the core robot framework, even if you just skim over it so you have some idea what is there, it’s really good documentation and will save you a lot of pain. Also read over the keyword documentation for the libraries you use the most,…

Hi damies13, Yeah, of course I will take a deep read of Robot framework document, since it’s a tool that looks very interesting and useful for some things I will do in the future. Ty again :slight_smile:

Hey again Damies! I made my project work with the info you gave me last month. I’ve been reading some things from Robot doc and learning a bit more. But I’m stuck in something again. It’s the same case than before, BUT now I have nested hierarchy inside the YAML file which acts as variable file. I …

Hi Retourned, Remember from my example Log ${dict} Log is your friend when you are unsure it helps you see what is going on. But from memory I think it goes like this: Log ${test_phases} # returns a Dictionary Log ${test_phases['setu…

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retourned (Retourned Ruiz) 29 July 2021 09:56 6

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Hi guys, thank you so much for your answers. I draw a little diagram to show you my idea, so maybe it is clear now. I’m sure it’s something pretty simple and factible (I hope).

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