Calling TCL commands via robot framework

[Sreeram R]

Hi,

I am using the base framework as Robot which is in Python.

I want automate scripts using Spirent Abacus 100 which is designed only in TCL.

I need to call the tcl api via robot framework.

Could you please guide me on how to use the Spirent TCL API's via robot framework.

Thanks

Sreeram

[leross]

Hi,
There may already be a library that does this. I am not aware of one, but I don't have a lot of robot experience.

You would have to create a library to make tcl calls.  You could use something like tkinter (http://wiki.tcl.tk/1395)

[Bryan Oakley]

No, tkinter is not what you would use. Tkinter is for creating GUIs, not servers. 

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[David]

You'd probably have to interface to TCL, I don't think there's an existing RF library for this. But there's several options:

• Call TCL from python. Some related posts: [1], [2]
• Run keywords that execute shell commands and the shell command would be to execute some TCL script via the native TCL runtime/engine
• Call TCL from Java or .NET and interface to that via jython/ironpython maybe, not sure if that will work
• Call TCL from any other language with RF remote library/server support, for some language that has better TCL support/integration, you could then interface/expose that to RF via the remote library/server interface

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/robotframework-users/PsywrMc2fDI

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1004434/know-any-creative-ways-to-interface-python-with-tcl