[1.1.1] Using Robotframework with SikuliX (2016-05-25+)

I will try to sort it out within the next 24 hours:

Thanks RaiMan - any help is appreciated by you or anyone.

I am really liking Sikuli. The RunServer option worked like a charm!

I should add that I am new to coding of any sort, so sorry if I ask questions that are super obvious.

Should robot be put in %appdata%/Roaming/SikuliX/Lib/site-packages/?

Think support page on the Sikuli site says

"As a workaround, you have to have a copy of the robot module (the folder robot containing the file __init__.py) in the SikulixAppData/Lib folder (about SikulixAppData see tab QuickStart and create it, if it does not exists yet)."

Checking the QuickStart page, it says the 'SikuliAppData' location on windows is where the %AppData% path takes you - which is 'C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming' for me....

I made a 'Lib' folder inside the 'SikuliX' folder and placed the 'robot' folder within the 'Lib' folder.

So, I mistyped above. I have my robot folder in this location: '%appdata%/SikuliX/Lib/robot/'

Fixing OP.....

I have to admit, that there where offending bugs in the import support of SikuliX.

They are fixed now. Available with the next nightly 1.1.1 (hope tonight).

this works:

- the upper part (multiline comment) contains the Robot script
- the lower part (class LoginLibrary) defines the keywords

... packed together in some testrobot.sikuli

runScript("""
robot
*** Variables ***
${USERNAME} demo
${PASSWORD} mode
${TESTSITE} http://test.sikuli.de
*** Settings ***
Library ./inline/LoginLibrary
Test Setup start firefox and goto testsite ${TESTSITE}
Test Teardown stop firefox
*** Test Cases ***
User can log in with correct user and password
    Attempt to Login with Credentials ${USERNAME} ${PASSWORD}
    Status Should Be Accepted
User cannot log in with invalid user or bad password
    Attempt to Login with Credentials betty wrong
    Status Should Be Denied
""")

from sikuli import *

class LoginLibrary(object):
  def start_firefox_and_goto_testsite(self, page):
    popup("start_firefox_and_goto_testsite")
  def stop_firefox(self):
    popup("stop_firefox")
  def attempt_to_login_with_credentials(self, username, password):
    popup("attempt_to_login_with_credentials")
  def status_should_be(self, expected):
    popup("status_should_be")

Oooo, nice to hear it wasn't just me not doing something obvious :) And thanks for looking into this and fixing it.

I didn't see a nightly build that was built on the Night Build page. Before I dive in and try to figure out how to build from the raw bits, I'll see if a build is built tomorrow.

Hi RaiMan (or anyone else who is curious,

I thought I would share the steps I needed to take to get robot working now that a new build has been kicked off.

- I had to download the new nightly build of 1.1.1 (2016-05-19)
- I nuked my old SikuliX install and reinstalled the one from 05-19
- I downloaded the Robot zip file from here: http://download.sikuli.de/robot.zip
- I unzipped that zip file into %AppData%/SikuliX/Lib
- I pasted the test robot testcase directly into a new script in SikuliX from here: http://sikulix-2014.readthedocs.io/en/latest/scenarios.html#using-robotframework

The script ran and I see all the expected files - including the report files! WooOOO!

The reason I had to download the robot.zip file was because SikuliX was complaining, when I ran the script, before getting the zip, that a platform.py file was missing. Diffing the zip file against what SikuliX installs by default to the Lib/robot dir - the zip came in at a few K lighter, but contained ~4 extra files.

Now all I need to do is dive into how to tweak the report/script to my liking.

I should add that when I ran the script a 2nd time the .robot directory (that was created in the 1st run) was auto-deleted and the script complained it couldn't find any files. Another run of the script created all the files again and outputted everything.

I am not certain if this test script is supposed to do anything (as in actually launching firefox) because right now it is only popping up some messages with an OK button.

I think I figured out how to fix the '.robot' directory deleting itself.

I did not have 'from sikuli import *' in my script before the LoginLibrary class section.

I added that and now it seems to run each time.

with the latest nightly from today (2016-05-20) the RobotFramework support should work according to the docs:
http://sikulix-2014.readthedocs.io/en/latest/scenarios.html#using-robotframework

- no need for the extra steps as mentioned in comment #8 and #10 anymore
- when the script ends, the RFW report is automatically opened in your standard browser.

Thanks for the update! can't wait to try it!