Pass argument to test runner

forgot some imports at the begninng but it doesnt matter

can be reduced to this:

#coming from sys.argv[1]:
"HagercadTests.regressionSuite()"

.... this is a string !!!

but for
runner.run(parameter)

parameter must be a test suite object !!!

Hence you first have to convert sys.argv[1] to a valid test suite.

eval() might be helpful ;-)

--- something like
runner.run(eval("unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(" + sys.argv[1] ")")

where the parameter in this case must name the Test class.

Thanks RaiMan, that solved my question.

Is it possible to make it run from outside the class?

I'm trying to make a configuration to run the tests like this from command line.

So i have 200 methods let's say that are steps basically,step1(),step2()...step200(). I want to create a configuration in wich if someone wants to run a test, it gives in the command line :java -jar pathToSikuli -r pathToScript --args step1 step5 step127 and from there my script knows to add those steps into a test and run it.

So i was thinking to create a method that collects the arguments from cmd and adds them to a list and returns it. Then the list is passed to another method wich adds the arguments in list to a test suite. Now the method that creates the test suite is passsed to the Runner file and runs it. Is this to complicated? Or is there a simpler way to do it?

That's why I;m asking if I can run something from outisde a class because I want to add at some point this method that creates a suite and it's outside my test class.
Thanks

yes you can - but this is basic Python knowledge.
Has nothing to do with SikuliX.

I'm halfway trough.

I give the following arguments in cmd:

java -jar pathToSikuli -r pathToTestRunner --args MyClass.startApp() MyMethodLocation.createProject()

The class that contains the tests looks like this:

class TestSuites(unittest.TestCase):

    def firstTest(self,aList):
        #steps returned by argumentsCollector()

def argumentsCollector():
    argumentsList = list()
    for i in sys.argv:
        argumentsList.append(i)
    argumentsList.pop(0)
    HagercadLogger.Logger.Log(HagercadLogger.LEVEL_WARNING, "PRINT: " + ', '.join(argumentsList))
    return argumentsList

def hagerTests():
    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
    suite.addTest(TestSuites('firstTest'))
    return suite

argumentsCollector() return a list that looks like this [MyClass.startApp(),MyMethodLocation.createProject()]
hagerTest() - is a suite that contains one test, the test inside my unittest class.

Is there a restriction to unittest in it;s default implementation, or i can pass arguments to e method inside a unittest class, like in my method firstTest(self,aList) , where aList would be the list of arguments(action/steps) collected from cmd? And then this method knows that the list is actually some steps in a test.

I'm noob in python unfortunately.

Sorry, but due to private priorities I have no time to help you the next 2 - 3 weeks.

No problem. In the meantime i hope i will find a solution.

Wish you all the best.