Simple function calling doesn't work in Robot Framework

Question

I'm new to Robot FW and I'm in the learning stage. In order to try calling external libraries, I made a very simple function and saved in tryingLibrary.py file. The content:

def myAdding(x, y):
    z = x + y
    return z

Then I worte the following RF test

*** Settings ***
Documentation    Suite description
Library          tryingLibrary.py

*** Variables ***
${x}

*** Test Cases ***
TestTest
    ${x}=  myAdding     30      26

However, when I check the log file, I find ${x} = 3026. I mean I'm expecting of course 56 not 3026

So where might be the problem?

Try z = int(x) + int(y) in the def myAdding(x, y): Robot f/w by default takes Unicode String as argument. You will have to explicitly convert it to int or the type you may want to use. — malhar
– malhar, Commented Feb 29, 2016 at 13:56

malhar · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-29 14:15:50Z

5

You may want to see this documentation

The doc clearly states that Argument type is Unicode String. There are two ways to implement your desired behavior

Convert it in the python function like this

def myAdding(x, y):
     z = int(x) + int(y)
     return z

Use it as follows, here is doc

 *** Test Cases ***
 TestTest
      ${x}=  myAdding     ${30}      ${26}

edited Feb 29, 2016 at 14:15

answered Feb 29, 2016 at 14:10

malhar

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