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bkoiiz
bkoiiz

Reputation: 1

How Can I import robot file from different locations

I have a path of a project like this.

Main project
'-Service
   '-Main service
      '- A.robot
      '- B.robot
'-resource.robot

When I run B.robot I would like to call resource.robot in setting file in my code

*** Settings ***
Documentation   Test building
Resource        resource.robot
Test Template   Send data to bus

I expect to include resoucre.robot, but It's return resource.robot does not exist.

How can I import resouce.robot.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3206

Answers (2)

Bryan Oakley
Bryan Oakley

Reputation: 385800

The simplest solution is to use a path relative to the test file. For example, in B.robot you would refer to the resource file like this:

*** Settings ***
Resource  ../../resource.robot

Robot will also search through the module search path, so you could define PYTHONPATH to include the directory with your resource files.

The user guide says this about locating resource files:

If the path is given in an absolute format, it is used directly. In other cases, the resource file is first searched relatively to the directory where the importing file is located. If the file is not found there, it is then searched from the directories in Python's module search path. The path can contain variables, and it is recommended to use them to make paths system-independent (for example, ${RESOURCES}/login_resources.robot or ${RESOURCE_PATH}). Additionally, forward slashes (/) in the path are automatically changed to backslashes () on Windows.

Upvotes: 1

Brian O'Neill
Brian O'Neill

Reputation: 329

Resource        resource.robot

Would work if resource.robot was at same (directory) level as B.robot...

Main project
'-Service
   '-Main service
      '- A.robot
      '- B.robot
      '-resource.robot

You could give it the full path.

You could just use ${CURDIR}

Resource        ${CURDIR}/../resource.robot

You also have https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#built-in-variables

Upvotes: 2

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