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Lloyd Ryan David
Lloyd Ryan David

Reputation: 117

Robot Framework: How to redirect console output to file

I was wondering if it was possible to redirect Robot Framework's stdout from console to file? Currently, when I run pybot, the output is in the command prompt (for Windows), can I change it in such a way that it will go to a file instead? (Nothing displayed on the command prompt).

Upvotes: 3

Views: 10453

Answers (4)

Aleh Khmel
Aleh Khmel

Reputation: 1

If you run from code, you can do something like

import robot.run
with open("message_out.log", "w") as log_file_out, open("message_err.log", "w") as log_file_err:
    robot.run("test",
               stdout=log_file_out,
               stderr=log_file_err)

Upvotes: 0

Sandeep Vaidya
Sandeep Vaidya

Reputation: 113

On a linux server you can just pipe the robot commandline to tee

robot -d results <test name>.robot  | tee <test name>.out

Upvotes: 2

Michel
Michel

Reputation: 9440

Maybe you just want to log it to you console (in case of Jenkins):

*** Keywords ***
Log To Current Console
    [Arguments]  ${TO_LOG}
    Log To Console  \n\n${TO_LOG}

Or sometimes it is nice to check the debug of your robot tests:

-b --debugfile file      Debug file written during execution. Not created
                         unless this option is specified.

Upvotes: 2

PradeepKumbhar
PradeepKumbhar

Reputation: 3421

Apart from the suggestion from @Bryan, if you want to redirect your output (xml, log, report) to a particular directory or a file, you can use following options for pybot script:

-d --outputdir dir       Where to create output files. The default is the
                      directory where tests are run from and the given path
                      is considered relative to that unless it is absolute.
-o --output file         XML output file. Given path, similarly as paths given
                      to --log, --report, --xunit, and --debugfile, is
                      relative to --outputdir unless given as an absolute
                      path. Other output files are created based on XML
                      output files after the test execution and XML outputs
                      can also be further processed with Rebot tool. Can be
                      disabled by giving a special value `NONE`. In this
                      case, also log and report are automatically disabled.
                      Default: output.xml
-l --log file            HTML log file. Can be disabled by giving a special
                      value `NONE`. Default: log.html
                      Examples: `--log mylog.html`, `-l NONE`
-r --report file         HTML report file. Can be disabled with `NONE`
                      similarly as --log. Default: report.html

Upvotes: 1

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