Better keyword usage experience

Question

Better keyword usage experience

mikahanninen opened this issue 2 years ago · 5 comments

List of cases where a developer needs to use for example Evaluate or inline Python evaluation and the usage is difficult or unclear.

Handling Get WebElement/WebElements results, ie WebElement object and its methods
Handling WindowsElement.item object methods

Answer 1 · 2022-12-09T13:29:39.000Z

Could browse through our codebase to see some examples of Evaluate usage:
https://github.com/search?q=org%3Arobocorp+Evaluate+extension%3Arobot+language%3ARobotFramework&type=Code&ref=advsearch&l=RobotFramework&l=

Answer 2 · 2022-12-09T13:47:41.000Z

Potential ones from the search:

rounding numbers
generating random numbers
parsing url segments
string contains
date equals comparison
marking chromedriver as undetected

Answer 3 · 2022-12-09T13:50:18.000Z

Any code snippets people regularly use might warrant a new keyword itself.

Answer 4 · 2022-12-12T12:11:00.000Z

The RPA.Tables - getting columns from a table

${columns}= Evaluate $table.columns

Answer 5 · 2023-10-13T09:23:14.000Z

For RPA.Windows, I would like to have a keyword that returns True if an element has children, or a keyword that gives you the list of children directly.

Edited to add: Also a reference to the parent element.