Installing via buildout fails

[emanlove]

If you try to install robotframework-selenium2library via buildout it fails on the line

import metadata

due to a weird catch-22 situation. src/SeleniumLibrary/metadata imports in utils which eventually tries to import robot.utils which is part of the robotframework package. buildout is not aware of, at this point and may not need to be aware of, the robotframework egg. I recommend keeping a clean self-enclosed setup.py without a separate metadata.py file.

[emanlove]

Here is a sample test code which shows the problem

create clean python environment using virtualenv

$ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.6 --no-site-packages clean-python-env

clone robotframework-selenium2library repository

$ git clone https://github.com/rtomac/robotframework-selenium2library.git

enter into clean python environment and verify correct python

$ source ~/clean-python-env/bin/activate
(clean-python-env)$ which python
~/clean-python-env/bin/python

finally call setup.py

# python ~/robotframework-selenium2library/setup.py 

which results in the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "~/robotframework-selenium2library/setup.py", line 9, in <module>
    import metadata
  File "~/robotframework-selenium2library/src/Selenium2Library/metadata.py", line 2, in <module>
    import utils
  File "~/robotframework-selenium2library/src/Selenium2Library/utils/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from browsercache import BrowserCache
  File "~/robotframework-selenium2library/src/Selenium2Library/utils/browsercache.py", line 1, in <module>
    from robot.utils import ConnectionCache
ImportError: No module named robot.utils

This test error example is calling setup.py directly insted of creating a buildout with selenium2 library but results in the exact same error.

[rtomac]

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the great sample script. I am able to reproduce. I will do my best to address this in the next 24 hours.

Ryan

[emanlove]

On 11/22/2011 03:41 AM, Ryan Tomac wrote:

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the great sample script. I am able to reproduce. I will do my best to address this in the next 24 hours.

Ryan

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Ryan,

I have a possible solution in my fork,
https://github.com/emanlove/robotframework-selenium2library. I forked
because, first I am new to git/github and still working out best
procedures and because I don't have permission to branch. I can put in
a pull request if you like my changes...

Ed

[j1z0]

old issue, your fork was merged but we never closed this issue