Robot Framework-Establish Customize Library Through Implement Send Email Function

When using Robot Framework, yes, it’s fast and easy to use, but for some special scenario, Robot Framework didn’t provide relevant library and keyword, such as send email.
We can implement this through keyword Evaluate, but it’s maybe not appropriate way. so it’s better for us to encapsulate system level library and keyword.

Implementation

Here we implement this by sending mail:

1. In python Lib\site-packages folder(e.g.,C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages ), create folder ‘GmailLibrary’.

2. Design send mail library ‘sendmail.py’

   import smtplib
   from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
   from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
   from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
   from email import Encoders
   import os
   
   class SendEmailUtility(object):
   
       ROBOT_LIBRARY_SCOPE = 'Global'
       
       def __init__(self):
           print 'send email utility'
           
       def send_mail_no_attachment(self,from_user,from_password,to, subject, text):
              msg = MIMEMultipart()
   
              msg['From'] = from_user
              msg['To'] = to
              msg['Subject'] = subject
   
              msg.attach(MIMEText(text))
   
              mailServer = smtplib.SMTP('outlook.office365.com')
              mailServer.ehlo()
              mailServer.starttls()
              mailServer.ehlo()
              mailServer.login(from_user, from_password)
              mailServer.sendmail(from_user, to, msg.as_string())
              mailServer.close()

3. Design ‘init.py’

   from sendemail import SendEmailUtility
   __version__ = '1.0'
   
   class EmailLibrary(SendEmailUtility):  
       ROBOT_LIBRARY_SCOPE = 'GLOBAL'

4. Import the library ‘MailLibrary’ in Robot Framework

5. Check keyword in ‘Keyword List’
   
6. Create case to send mail
   
7. Mail send result
   

Postscript

We can implement everything from this way, but the important thing is you need to know python, even a little:)

Use the tool, but not subject to the tool.