Multiline string as single argument to a test template

Robot Framework
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I was exploring my options clean up my test structures and was wondering about the possibility to pass a multiline string to a test template.

Given something like this;

Templated test case
    [Template]    keyword that receives sql query
    SELECT * FROM FOOBAR

this ofcourse works but extending the query to multiline “…” syntax does not seem to help. For example;

Normal test case
  [Template]    keyword that receives sql query
  SELECT
  ...  *
  ...  FROM FOOBAR

Now, this would receive the whole query but each row as a separate argument. This probably could be dealt with by making the test template to expect varargs and then join them on the keyword but that feels a bit off putting :wink:

PS. using varargs as keyword argument and then catenate it to a single string will work but thats sort of a workaround to actual question …