Issue in Pycharm with 4.x vs 3.1.2

Robot Framework
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So I have an installation of Pycharm, using robotframework 3.1.2 All of our tests run fine locally, note that they are *.txt files, not *.robot files. In the configuration for pycharm, under Settings > File Types, we have *.txt associated with “RobotFramework Language”, and it’s been working fine.

However, today, I tried to update to RobotFramework 4.1.2, and as soon as I try to run any of my tests, I get this error in Pycharm: Error 252 no tests found. I had this issue before during initial setup of my environment, and that was resolved by associating the *.txt filetype to RobotFramework Language.
Nothing else changed except the update to the RobotFramework library. Is there some other library/plugin I also need to update to fix this?
I reverted back to RobotFramework 3.1.2 and all my tests work fine.

Dan

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Robot nowadays parses only .robot files by default. I think it was changed already in RF 3.2 but latest in RF 4.0. There’s a command line option to tell Robot to parse other files that you need if renaming files isn’t an option. I think it’s --extension but you need to check that.

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So even though pycharm has a setting to associate *.txt files as robot files, that is no longer honored?

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When you run robot command, it knows absolutely nothing about your PyCharm configuration. You need to explicitly tell it to parse *.txt files. My recommendation is renaming files so that test case files use *.robot and resource files use *.resource. That way plugins (at least the LSP plugin) can give you correct context specific completion and Robot can easily decide what files to parse.