Robot Task Webservice

A web service managing Robot Framework tasks/tests.

Goal

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

Installation and Execution

Docker

You can run the image and map your test cases into the webservice with a volume :

docker run --rm --publish 5003:5003 \
           --volume <host directory of test cases>:/robot/tests \
           --env SUITE_FOLDER=tests \
           ghcr.io/marketsquare/robotframework-webservice:master

You can also run the image and map your test cases and your variable files (separated by spaces) into the webservice with volumes :

docker run --rm --publish 5003:5003 \
           --volume <host directory of test cases>:/robot/tests \
           --volume <host directory of variable files>:/robot/variables \
           --env SUITE_FOLDER=tests \
           --env "VARIABLE_FILES=variables/variables.py variables/variables2.py" \
           ghcr.io/marketsquare/robotframework-webservice:master

Podman

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

podman run --network host -v ./examples:/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/test, for instance:

Call robot task/test:

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

Call robot task/test 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 (see reporting endpoints)

There are endpoints for synchronous and asynchronous request:

# connection remains open for duration of my task/test
http://localhost:5003/robotframework/run/mytask

# connection closes immediately - result must be requested with the x-request-id
http://localhost:5003/robotframework/run/mytask/async

There is also the all-in-one endpoint POST http://localhost:5003/robotframework/run which trigger execution of a robot files, test, task or suite.

It can be customized with options in JSON payload. All available options are documented in Swagger schema and examples.

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

By default, execution is asynchronous, but it can be changed with sync option.

There is no limitation on executed Robot processes! It is easy to push the webservice in DOS with too many requests at once

Call robot test

curl -X 'POST' \
  'http://localhost:5003/robotframework/run' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "paths": [
    "examples"
  ],
  "test": "Demonstration Test"
}'

Call robot task

curl -X 'POST' \
  'http://localhost:5003/robotframework/run' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "paths": [
    "examples"
  ],
  "task": "Demonstration Task"
}'

Call robot task with variables

curl -X 'POST' \
  'http://localhost:5003/robotframework/run' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "paths": [
    "examples"
  ],
  "task": "Task with more variables",
  "variables": {
    "firstname": "Max",
    "lastname": "Mustermann"
  }
}'

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, tests and variables for demonstration. They are located in examples folder. You may add your own task/test 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