User Guide

Table of Contents Return Types Parameter Types Dynamic API Libraries Static API Libraries

Return Types

Java type	Python type
String, char[]	string
int, Integer, short, Short, byte, Byte	int
long, Long	string
double, Double, float, Float	float
boolean, Boolean	bool
List	list
array of primitive types except char	list
array of <? extends Object>	list
Iterable	list
Map[1]	dict
All others	string

[1] All keys are converted to string before returning the Map to Robot Framework.

Parameter Types

Java type	Python type
String	string
int, Integer	int
double, Double	float
boolean, Boolean	bool
List<Object>	list, tuple
Object[][1]	list, tuple
Map	dict

[1] For static API libraries: if the last parameter is an array-type, then the ArgumentGrouper may convert the arguments to String. This is being investigated.

Dynamic API Libraries

Dynamic libraries are responsible for dispatching run_keyword calls. jrobotremoteserver, therefore, has no way of determining the parameter types. Do not mix arrays and lists because of this. jrobotremoteserver will send array-type (XML-RPC) arguments as arrays first. If that fails due to an IllegalArgumentException, it will convert arrays to ArrayLists and invoke run_Keyword/runKeyword again.

Static API Libraries

Public methods in the user class and its super classes are considered keywords. Methods from Object.class that are not overridden are excluded.

Currently, jrobotremoteserver does not support using multiple methods to implement a single keyword as seen the user guide.