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oboehmer opened this issue Mar 15, 2024 · 2 comments
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pretty-printy Log Dictionary option #5082

oboehmer opened this issue Mar 15, 2024 · 2 comments

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@oboehmer
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It would be good to have an option to pretty-print dictionaries, i.e. with indentation in the logs for better examination. Robot already pretty-prints dict return values in the log (when using TRACE option), so suggest to offer this also when doing it from keyword (maybe with an indent=<int> option which would then just do a json.dumps(dict, indent=indent) if set.

Happy to provide a PR to do this in 7.1
@oboehmer oboehmer changed the title prett-printy Log Dictionary option pretty-printy Log Dictionary option Mar 15, 2024
@JFoederer
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Doesn't the formatter=repr option from the BuiltIn Log keyword already provide the requested feature?

When using repr, bigger lists, dictionaries and other containers are also pretty-printed so that there is one item per row. For more details see String representations.

@pekkaklarck
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Yeah, formatter=repr with the Log keyword ought to handle this. Log Dictionary also automatically logs items like:

key1: value1
key2: value2

I'm sure we could still enhance this, though. Is there something concrete you @oboehmer had in mind?

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