Robot Task Webservice

A web service managing Robot Framework tasks.

Status: Prototype

Goal

This web service shall start Robot Framework tasks and return and cache the according reports.

Installation and Execution

Default docker image does not support variable files, yet

Docker

docker pull ghcr.io/marketsquare/robotframework-webservice:master

After that you can run the image and map your test cases in to the webservice with a volumen:

docker run -v <host directory of test cases>:/robot/tests --env SUITE_FOLDER=tests rf-webservice:latest

Podman

Almost as Docker, but you might need to attach the webservice to the host network:

podman run --network host -v ./tasks:/robot/tasks --env SUITE_FOLDER=tasks rf-webservice:latest

Local

pip install robotframework-webservice

and execute from command line:

python -m RobotFrameworkService.main -p 5003 -t path_to_my_taskfolder

Usage

There are 2 types of endpoints:

1. Execution
2. Reporting

Execution

Endpoints that trigger execution of a robot task, for instance:

Call robot task:

http://localhost:5003/robotframework/run/mytask

Call robot task with variables:

http://localhost:5003/robotframework/run/mytask?myVariable1=42&anotherVariable=Mustermann

Response contains a header field x-request-id that can be used to retrieve logs and reports of this execution asynchronously.

Reporting

Endpoints that provide log.html and report.html for a specific task execution. You require the x-request-id from a previous response that triggered the execution.

Start web service

The web service starts automatically with uvicorn inside. Simply call:

python -m RobotFrameworkService.main

You can check available options with

python -m RobotFrameworkService.main --help

Example:

python -m RobotFrameworkService.main -p 5003 -t path_to_my_taskfolder

Example - Variablefiles:

You can provide variable files that are passed to all robot suites on execution:

python -m RobotFrameworkService.main -p 5003 -t path_to_my_taskfolder --variablefiles config/env/test.py

Custom WSGI server

You can start RobotFrameworkService with bare WSGI servers:

uvicorn RobotFrameworkService.main:app --port 5003

Or start web service with other WSGI server, i.e waitress:

waitress-serve --port 5003 RotbotFrameworkService.main:app

SwaggerUi

Swagger-UI is available under http://localhost:5003/docs

Demo-Tasks

This project contains some tasks for demonstration. They are located in tasks folder. You may add your own task suites in that directory, if you like.

Task name with spaces in URL

Tasks may contain spaces, URL must not. Luckily, Robot Framework supports CamelCase as well as snake_case syntax. Meaning: "Another Task" can be trigger in url with parameter AnotherTask or another_task