Comment #12 on issue 576 by [email protected]: Parsing model
enhancements
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=576
Settings are difficult to deal with in a test case. For example, there is
no list of settings. I have to iterate over all attributes and call
is_setting. IMO the settings should be a list or dictionary so I can easily
iterate over them -- they shouldn't be mixed in with internal attributes.
Also, settings need a unified API. Right now, if I want to modify a setting
I have to special-case anything that is an instance of settings.Fixture
because it uses .name and .args rather than .value like all the other
settings.
ideally I should be able to change all the settings with something as
simple as:
new_setting = ["setup": ..., "teardown": ..., ...]
for setting in testcase.settings:
setting.value = new_setting[setting.name]
