process multiple output.xml

[fspegni]

Would it be possible to take as input multiple output.xml files? Similarly to what rebot does. At the moment the only thing I was able to do was to merge the several output.xml into a single file (with a single <robot ...> element) and pass it to robotmetrics. The nasty part is removing the multiple copies of the <robot ...> element (one per output.xml file), then merge the children elements, then wrap all the children with a single outer <robot ...> element. It would be nice if the tool could take care of that.

[adiralashiva8]

Workaround for this scenario could be creating .bat or .sh file and executing .bat or .sh file (to perfrom multiple actions)

robot test.robot &&
rebot --output output.xml --merge output1.xml output2.xml output3.xml &&
robotmetrics [:options]

robotframework-metrics will be created by parsing output,xml (which is created by merging multiple xmls)

[fspegni]

Digging a bit the robotframework API, I found out it already has support for processing multiple output.xml files. So I patched the robotmetrics.py file this way:

    # output.xml file
    output_names = [ os.path.join(path, curr) for curr in opts.output.split(",") ]

    # report.html file
    report_name = opts.report_name

    # log.html file
    log_name = opts.log_name

##    required_files = (
##        output_name,
##        # report_name,
##        # log_name,
##    )
    required_files = output_names
...
    # Read output.xml file
    result = ExecutionResult(*output_names)

I assume the parameter output can accept a list of filenames divided by ,, so I split and append all the names ot the working directory. It seems it works. I test it a little bit more and make a pull request for this, if you agree.

[adiralashiva8]

Amazing, I will look into this, thanks for inputs and your contribution

[adiralashiva8]

Fixed as part of #65 pull request