I have some settings-type global vars that I'd like to be able to access from python code. For example:
pybot --variable RESULTS_PATH:/wherever/this/points test.txt
Now, my module logger.py needs to know the results_path to set up properly.
I know that I can initialize the logger with a variable, like
***Settings***
Library logger ${RESULTS_PATH}
and then in logger I'll be passed results_path:
def __init__(self, results_path):
#whatever
However the problem with doing it this way for me is that I want to access and use the logger from both python code and within test cases. So if I set it up this way, if I want to use the logger from python code I run into the same problem of needing results_path to initialize the logger properly.
Are there any functions in the robot framework library that would allow me to grab the value of ${RESULTS_PATH} from python code? What is the proper way to do something like this?
Right now, my workaround for the issue is to set RESULTS_PATH as an environment variable. So I have something like:
run like:
RESULTS_PATH=/wherever/this/points pybot test.txt
test.txt:
***Settings***
Library logger
...
logger.py:
results_path = os.environ["RESULTS_PATH"]
# other set up stuff
Thanks for any help.
