How to define a variable after checking variable already defined or not in robot framework

Question

I'm new to robot framework. I have a robot frame work code which I run using command

robot --variable color:red myrobo.robot

Here I'm passing variable ${color} as command line argument. In robot code I want to check whether the variable color is defined or not. The purpose is if I ran robot code like

robot myrobo.robot

I should have a default value for ${color}. If I didn't pass any command line argument I want ${color} = 'yellow' If I pass command line argument as color:red I should have ${color} = 'red'.

How to achieve this.

Bence Kaulics · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-15 19:14:16Z

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You can define the variable in the variable table with a default value.

*** Variables ***
${color}         yellow

*** Test Cases ***

This value will be overwritten with the command line argument,

robot --variable color:red myrobo.robot

or it will hold its default value when the command line argument is not used.

robot myrobo.robot

answered Dec 15, 2020 at 19:14

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