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Is it possible to do a conditional import of a resource file in robot framework? Depending on the test environment, I want to import a resource file with different variables. The variable could be read from the robot CLI (e.g. robot --variable VAR:production myTestSuite)

Illustrating Example:

*** Settings***

Resource    variables_url_environment_a.robot

Resource    variables_url_environment_b.robot



Run keyword if     '${VAR}'=='production'    Import resource    variables_url_environment_b.robot

You could use Arguments file that will have different Environmental variables, You could use something like

QA.args

    --variable Enviroment:http://sample.url/QA:1111

    --variable USER:John

    --variable PASSWORD:John

Then in your Robot.test

*** Test Cases ***

Run Argument File

     Go To  ${Enviroment}

     Login With User   ${USER}  ${PASSWORD}

NOTE: This is just an example of the argument file use Login with User is not an actual keyword

And then execute command

robot --argumentfile "QA.args" tests

You can also overwrite the variables on the command line.

robot --argumentfile "QA.args" --variable Enviroment:http://sample.url/Staging:1111 tests

You could use a variable in the name of import file.
Set the value of the variable from pom.xml file in case you are using maven.

Something like below, where ${PLATFORM} is a variable :

*Settings*

Resource    ../platforms/settings_${PLATFORM}.tsv                       

Resource    ../platforms/settings_default.tsv   

*Variables*                         

${PLATFORM} ${ENV_PLATFORM} 

Below is snippet from POM.xml

....

<env.platform>Platform1.</env.platform>

....

<configuration>

    <variables>

        <param>ENV_PLATFORM:${env.platform}</param>

    </variables>

</configuration>

....

Also, this way you can pass the value of platform from jenkins (if used)
using -Denv.platform=Platform_5

I dont think conditional imort is possible in Robot Framework in the way you liked.
However,what you can do is instead of importing envorimnent file as resoucres , you can pass them to your test as --variablefile

How i will do it?

variables_url_environment_a.py

msg='env a'

variables_url_environment_b.py

msg='env b'

Test.robot

*** Settings ***

*** Variables ***

*** Test Cases ***

print message to console

    print msg

*** Keywords ***

print msg

    log to console  ${msg}

Now just run your test suite as per the enviroment you need by creating a simple python script.

Python_run_script

import subprocess

var='Production'

command_a='pybot -V variables_url_environment_a.py Test.robot'

command_b='pybot -V variables_url_environment_a.py Test.robot'

if var='Production': 

    procId = subprocess.Popen(command_a,stdout = subprocess.PIPE)

else:

    procId = subprocess.Popen(command_b,stdout = subprocess.PIPE)

For more information about how to use --variablefile , you can also refer below url

https://automationlab0000.wordpress.com/2018/11/20/how-to-pass-python-variable-file-in-robotframework/