Hi, I want to instantiate global variables dynamically in Robot Framework, but I’ve encountered challenges with making this simple and user friendly, and getting my IDE to recognize these dynamically created variables for auto-completion for users to use them. Despite trying various methods, none s…

Hi, I have encountered this, for example to access non standard html lists, where xpath needs to contain list items dynamically. Depending of differences in xpath (just a variable or complete path), I would do this: The difference is just a variable in the xpath: For now the solution I’m using…

Thanks for your help. I managed to work around the issue using the following approach: Run Before Every Selenium Test Case Run Before Every Test ${hostname} Initialize TS7700 Locators Initialize TS7700 Locators Set Locators For Categories Page Set Locators For Cluster Summary …

Haven’t tested this but could using python file as variable file be able to solve this ? At least if you pass the server version from cli to robot, variable file could get that and then return the correct xpath’s for that particular version ?

It is possible to pass some variables from CLI, im actually passing some variables using CLI, but Robot Framework does not currently offer a direct way to pass arguments to Python variable files (any kind of variable, even if they come from the cli, you can not pass variables/arguments to Variables…

I made a poc of what i was suggesting; dyn.py: from robot.libraries.BuiltIn import BuiltIn _rf = BuiltIn() _ver = _rf.get_variable_value("${SERVER_VERSION}") if _ver != None: FOO=_ver else: FOO="FOOBAR!!" And demo.robot: *** Settings *** Variables dyn.py *** Test Cases *** Try Someth…

In a Python variables file, if there is a def get_variables method, RF will call it when importing the variables file. That get_variables implementation can take arguments. So your Variables locators.py ${SERVER} in combination with variables.py: def get_variables(server: dict[str, str) -> d…

Is there a Way to Instantiate Global Variables Dynamically? Page Object Model (POM)

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wolfred (Cesar Martinez) 18 September 2024 19:33 8

Awesome solutions, guys! I can’t believe I didn’t notice that earlier.

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