When will you refactor the Data Model?

[DoanhPoPu]

I'm using xlsx as data sources and would like to remove the variable pattern as current. If we can remove $ or @ so it will be more friendly with manual tester and the old files they had.
I love your lib but we need to improve more so the community can use easily.

Thanks,
Doanh Nguyen

[Snooz82]

You can create your own DataReader. It is quite easy.

https://github.com/Snooz82/robotframework-datadriver/blob/master/Readme.rst#custom-datareader-classes

When you want to have a XLS-Reader that does not require variable syntax, you have to override/implement the method _analyse_header in your custom reader.

You can copy it from Abstract_Data_Reader .
And not use the _is_variable() method.

For CSV there is the generic_csv_reader.py .
This one requires nothing. It just takes all columns as Variables.

I prefer the variable syntax, because the link is clear.
In the future @ and & will also be available to support lists and dictionaries.

Regards.

[Snooz82]

If you have implemented a generic_xls_reader, please create a pull request, then i will include it into the project

[DoanhPoPu]

Thanks Snooz82. So I will keep the variable pattern as current, I will modify the old xlsx data sources into new pattern as the lib required.
Thanks for your valuable lib ;)