Status: Accepted
Owner: pekka.klarck
Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Medium Target-2.5.2
New issue 619 by pekka.klarck: `Variable Should Exist` should support
returning true/false depending does variable exist or not
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=619
Currently `Variable Should Exist` passes if variable exists and fails if it
doesn't. This is problematic if you want to do different actions based on
does the variable exist or not. You can wrap `Variable Should Exist` with
`Run Keyword And Ignore Error` but that's pretty complex.
We can easily add new argument to `Variable Should Exist` to allow
configuring the keyword so that it returns boolean true or false instead of
passing/failing. I don't think `Variable Should Not Exist` needs this
option because `Variable Should Exist` already returns false if the
variable doesn't exist.
