Status: Accepted
Owner: ----
Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Medium Target-2.6.2
New issue 940 by pekka.klarck: `Import Variables` keyword should import
variable files even if they are already imported
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=940
Let's assume we have two variable files VF1.py and VF2.py with
content 'VAR=1' and 'VAR=2', respectively. If these variables files are
imported using Import Variables keyword like below, variable `${VAR}` will,
surprisingly, have value 2.
Import Variables path/to/VF1.py
Import Variables path/to/VF2.py
Import Variables path/to/VF1.py
The reason this happens is that variables files (and resource and
libraries) are imported only once per suite. Possible future imports are
silently ignored. The idea has been to avoid unnecessary duplicate imports,
and possible side effects in imports, but at least in the above case the
logic fails badly.
We need to think about this logic in general, but at least with Import
Variables keyword the variable file should always be imported.
