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Reputation: 971

Robot Framework: why does Log ignore my argument?

When I run the code below I get an error message

Keyword 'BuiltIn.Log' expected 1 to 5 arguments, got 0.

for the second log to console (within the if-clause). Why? Why doesn't it "see" the variable I try to send as an argument?

Googling doesn't return anything useful. I have tried several combinations of spaces and apostrophes but nothing has worked.

Function key above F12
    [Arguments]  ${fkey}
    ${ValidFKeys}=    Create List    F13  F14  F15  F16  F17
    log to console  ${fkey}
    Run Keyword If   $fkey in $ValidFKeys  run keywords
    ... log to console  ${fkey}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 270

Answers (1)

Todor Minakov
Todor Minakov

Reputation: 20047

Check the Run Keywords documentation:

By default all arguments are expected to be keywords to be executed.

What happened is Run Keywords treated Log To Console as the first keyword to be ran, then the value of ${fkey} as the second - it did not pass it as argument to the log. To overcome this, add an "AND" - so now it knows ${fkey} is an argument; if yo udon't have any other keyword to be ran, either drop Run Keywords, or use No Operation:

Run Keyword If   $fkey in $ValidFKeys  run keywords
... log to console  ${fkey}  AND  No Operation

Upvotes: 2

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