Robot framework / selenium - possible to read javascript console?

Question

When automating tests using the Robot framework, is it possible to read messages logged to the JS console via console.log? We are also using the selenium 2 library.

We're using a third-party library that unfortunately does not provide events or fields for accessing the information that our QA Automation team wants to test, but the information is logged into the console. I mention this because workarounds such as "publish an event" or "expose a field", are not going to be acceptable solutions.

I am also not looking for a solution that involves overriding window.console.log, because this is a hack and may not be reliable.

Have you tried to use the following solution? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20907180/getting-console-log-output-from-chrome-with-selenium-python-api-bindings — gbajson, Nov 17 '16 at 10:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 17 '19 at 23:04

You need to create a python script to capture the current browser and then run the get_logs command. Something like this:

    from robot.libraries.BuiltIn import BuiltIn

def get_logs():
    se2lib = BuiltIn().get_library_instance('Selenium2Library')

    try:
        return se2lib._current_browser().get_log("all")

    # issues while retrieving logs: return empty
    except Exception as e:
        print(str(e))

    return []

And call on Robot Framework:

*** Settings ***
Resource          utils.robot

Library           get_logs.py
*** Keywords ***
Run On Failure
    Capture Page Screenshot
    Get Logs

Robot framework / selenium - possible to read javascript console?

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