How to use REST library in Robot Framework?

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Does anybody know how to use the REST Library for Robot Framework? The library is available here http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-restlibrary/source/browse/trunk/RestLibrary.py. It seems like there is no documentation available.

I tried something like this in Robot Framework but there is no response coming back from the request:

REST Test Case
    Get    https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/timezone/json?location=39.6034810,-119.6822510&timestamp=1331161200&sensor=true
    Response    test

Any ideas how to use this library?

similar to stackoverflow.com/questions/21311532/…

MarkHu
– MarkHu

2014-03-21 08:36:09 +00:00
Commented Mar 21, 2014 at 8:36 — MarkHu
– MarkHu, Commented Mar 21, 2014 at 8:36
@MarkHu It seems related but not similar

José Andias
– José Andias

2015-01-07 15:31:11 +00:00
Commented Jan 7, 2015 at 15:31 — José Andias
– José Andias, Commented Jan 7, 2015 at 15:31

janne · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-17 16:02:31Z

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That library seems to be poorly documented. Perhaps you should take a look at https://github.com/bulkan/robotframework-requests, which seems to be documented and maintained.

answered Oct 17, 2012 at 16:02

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finspin · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-18 06:37:23Z

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I found another library which can do http calls and even parse json. Plus it's well documented http://peritus.github.com/robotframework-httplibrary/HttpLibrary.html.

answered Oct 18, 2012 at 6:37

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José Andias · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-19 15:15:34Z

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REST Library for Robot Framework is not developed since 2009 (see changes).

Robot Framework official page references several HTTP level testing libraries, as for example:

robotframework-requests - Development is active and uses Requests HTTP python library.

Example Usage:

Grab Avatar Url
         Create Session    github    https://api.github.com     
  ${resp}=
    ...  Get Request       github    /users/jandias
         Should Be Equal As Strings
           ...             ${resp.status_code}  200     
         Dictionary Should Contain Key
           ...             ${resp.json()}       avatar_url

robotframework-httplibrary - Uses WebTest (with livetest) python library...

edited Nov 19, 2018 at 15:15

answered Jan 7, 2015 at 15:22

José Andias

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Rao Over a year ago

When the above code is run, there is an error coming saying No keyword with name 'Create Session' found.

José Andias Over a year ago

@Rao: That seems to mean your robot is not identifying Create Session keyword. Notice the example is under robotframework-requests library usage and that it is not a full test suite. That Create Session keyword is from this library. When using (not builtin) libraries under Robot you must declare it. I must guess that you probably skipped/forgot it. There are multiple ways of doing that, including in other robot files.

ravthiru · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-01 06:22:51Z

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Might be useful for others, another lib https://pypi.org/project/RESTinstance/, for testing RESTful JSON APIs

answered Sep 1, 2020 at 6:22

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Rahul Tiwari · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-15 06:31:07Z

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use 'requests' library. In Your RIDE tool, Open 'Library' & enter 'requests' and save. Execute your test case.Hopefully it will work for you

answered Jan 15, 2018 at 6:31

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Dev Over a year ago

This does not answers the question, neither you provided descriptive answer, you could have provided your suggestion in comments not in answers

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