Manager Fails to transfer resources to agent when test resource link in windows uses "Resource ../../../Resource/file.robot

[markro12]

Describe the bug

Manager fails to transfer resources to agent when using a resource link like this on windows:
Resource ../../../Resource/File_Resource.robot

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[damies13]

Extract from discord chat:

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crashfile — Today at 20:34
Robot Test Settings Resource line:
Resource ../../../Resource/Web_Client_Resource.robot

Resource location:
\AutomationTests\WebClient.Automation.Tests\Resource\Web_Client_Resource.robot

Test Location:
\WebClient.Automation.Tests\Tests\POC_Performance_Test_RF

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damies13 — Today at 20:41
can you try changing that to
Resource ..${/}..${/}..${/}Resource${/}Web_Client_Resource.robot

I think I know what might be happening and changing it to that will confirm it
Resource ..\..\..\Resource\Web_Client_Resource.robot
Should work also

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crashfile — Today at 20:47
both had the same result as before.

Shoud I try ../../../Resource/Web_Client_Resource.robot

as it seems you are trying to escape the /
result as before, meaning only copied 1 file in temp

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damies13 — Today at 20:53
no, what I think might be happening is the manager is constructing the path to the resource files as something like c:\Cotton\klean\kanteen../../../Resource/Web_Client_Resource.robot
but windows doesn't like it when you do that, on windows all the slashes have to go the same way. I thought I'd caught all the instances of that happeining but I might have missed one
the manager knows how to handle the robot variable for ${/} which tells robot to use the system path slash \ for windows
in a robot file you need to escape \ as \ but you don't need to escape /
I was trying to get the slashes in the window style for your resource file entry to see if that was the issue

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crashfile — Today at 21:01
I'm trying to run the test, and will report back on any error message that might be helpful.

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damies13 — Today at 21:08
This resource path
Resource example\example.resource.robot
On my linux machine produced this:
RFSwarmBase: find_dependancies(1339): [8:7] linearr ['Resource', 'example\\example.resource.robot'] [1.2.0 @2023-06-14 21:00:01]
RFSwarmGUI: sr_file_validate(5747): [8:7] scriptfile: /home/dave/Documents/Github/rfswarm/Tests/Demo/demo_wth_resource.robot [1.2.0 @2023-06-14 21:00:01]
RFSwarmBase: find_dependancies(1351): [8:7] resfile example\example.resource.robot [1.2.0 @2023-06-14 21:00:01]
RFSwarmBase: find_dependancies(1362): [8:7] localrespath /home/dave/Documents/Github/rfswarm/Tests/Demo/example\example.resource.robot [1.2.0 @2023-06-14 21:00:01]

When I bumped the debugging up to 8

Looks like that's the issue
Can you create a bug report on github saying something like

Manager fails to transfer resources to agent when using a resource linke like this on windows:
Resource ../../../Resource/Web_Client_Resource.robot

Then you'll get notified when I fix it

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crashfile — Today at 21:10
ok will do
any work around for now ?

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damies13 — Today at 21:12
safest one is to use ${/} for the paths but if you only have windows machines you can use the escaped windows paths (\) either should work I can see in the code where the problem is happening

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[damies13]

Fix for this issue has been merged into release v1.1.4 branch, This issue will be resolved with release v1.1.4