How to import custom keywords and variables using RIDE

[N.T.]

Hello,

I'm trying to do a set of scripts where a test cases pulls the keywords and variables from resource files, which are placed in different folders. 

So there are 3 folders

-Test cases

-Variable files

-Keyword files

All 3 folders are in the same directory, and for one test case to access the variable files in the second they need to use the path: ../keywords/keyword.txt

Simply adding the path from RIDE causes a warning, and it looks like my test case cannot import it because using it on the test case doesn't highlight on ride.

This is the log:

20150522 15:30:21.439 [INFO]: Started RIDE 1.2.3 using python version 2.7.9 with wx version 2.8.12.1 in win32.


20150522 15:52:20.996 [WARN]: Importing test library "Customer Registration" failed


Traceback (most recent call last):
Importing test library 'CustomerRegistration' failed: ImportError: No module named CustomerRegistration
Traceback (most recent call last):
  None
PYTHONPATH:
  C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\robotide\lib\robot\libraries
  C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\robotide\lib
  C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode
  C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode
  C:\windows\system32\python27.zip
  C:\Python27\DLLs
  C:\Python27\lib
  C:\Python27\lib\plat-win
  C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk
  C:\Python27
  C:\Python27\lib\site-packages
  .
  C:\windows\system32
  C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\robotide\spec
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\robotide\spec\librarymanager.py", line 76, in _fetch_keywords
    return get_import_result(path, library_args)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\robotide\spec\libraryfetcher.py", line 20, in get_import_result
    lib = TestLibrary(path, args)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\robotide\lib\robot\running\testlibraries.py", line 37, in TestLibrary
    libcode = importer.import_class_or_module(name)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\robotide\lib\robot\utils\importer.py", line 64, in import_class_or_module
    self._raise_import_failed(name, err)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\robotide\lib\robot\utils\importer.py", line 102, in _raise_import_failed
    raise DataError('\n'.join(msg))

Am not sure how else I'm supposed to set it. Is it that Robot Framework does not accept custom libraries? I partially find that hard to believe.

[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

The error means that CustomRegistration library import did fail. I would assume, based on the error text, that you did import the library with object name and did not provide a path to the library. Because the library is not found from the PYTHON_PATH you will get the error. Adjusting your PYTHON_PATH or providing path to your library should fix the problem. More details can be found from user guide [1].

-Tatu
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[1] http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#taking-test-libraries-into-use

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[N.T.]

Hi Tatu,

Thanks for your help. I found out the reason for the import fail was because resource Libraries are not supposed to have a test suite, which is why it was failing. This was a mistake on my part.

I've removed the test suite and now it's running. The path seems to be okay since my test cases are running smoothly now. 

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