Generate UUID

[Dave de bruin]

I am searching for an example of a keyword that generate a UUID 
and then from my test fill a variable with this UUID  

I found an example for the keyword 

Generate UUID
    ${uuid}=    Generate UUID
    ${generated_uuid}=    Get Regexp Matches    ${uuid}    ^(?P<uuid>[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-4[0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}).*    uuid
    Should Not Be Empty    ${generated_uuid}

but I do not manage to fill a variable in my test 

*** Test Cases ***
DSB-IN-19954-001 GetVRs  
    [Tags]  DSB-IN-19954-001  DSB-IN-19954   ART
    ${recordId}     Generate UUID

when I do this I get a error Maximum limit of started keywords exceeded.
No keyword with name 'Get Regexp Matches' found.

anyone who can help   ??

tnx 

[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

Instead of generating UUID in Robot Framework data, I would expose UUID from the Python side[1] as a library keyword [2].

-Tatu
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[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/uuid.html

[2] http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#creating-test-libraries

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[Wlad]

*** Keywords ***
Generate UUID
    [Documentation]     Generates a random UUIDv4 spec conform `uuid`.

    ${id}=              Evaluate    uuid.uuid4()    uuid
                        Set Test Variable    ${uuid}    ${id}

Cheers

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[Wlad]

instead of exposing variable to test scope level like in my last example you can just return it:

*** Keywords ***
Generate UUID
    [Documentation]     Generates a random UUIDv4 spec conform `uuid`.

    ${uuid}=            Evaluate    str(uuid.uuid4())    uuid

    [RETURN]            ${uuid}


*** Test Cases ***
simple test

    ${uuid}=        Generate UUID

                    Log To Console      ${uuid}

NOTE: consider returning it as string --> str()  because uuid.uuid4() will return a uuid object which may be not what you want.

Cheers

Am Fr., 26. Juli 2019 um 17:16 Uhr schrieb Dave de bruin <davedeb...@gmail.com>:

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