Issue 1029 in robotframework: RunnerFactory returns instance with the same state on multiple invocations

[robotframework]

Status: New
Owner: ----
Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium
New issue 1029 by imranoft...@gmail.com: RunnerFactory returns instance  
with the same state on multiple invocations
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1029

Whenever we do multiple invocations of RunnerFactory, we should get a clean  
version of RobotRunner. However what we observe is that if we invoke the  
following multiple times, we get the jython object with the same  
PySystemState.

runner = new RunnerFactory().createRunner()

This leads to the following issue. If we edit a resource file and create a  
new runner and run it, it does not pick up the new changes in the resource  
file. Currently, to get around this problem I am doing

Py.setSystemState(new PySystemState());

However it can be fixed properly by changing the following from

private PyObject importRunnerClass() {
        PythonInterpreter localPythonInterpreter = new PythonInterpreter();
	localPythonInterpreter.exec("import robot; from robot.jarrunner import  
JarRunner");
        return localPythonInterpreter.get("JarRunner");
}

to

private PyObject importRunnerClass() {
	PythonInterpreter localPythonInterpreter = new PythonInterpreter(null, new  
PySystemState());
	localPythonInterpreter.exec("import robot; from robot.jarrunner import  
JarRunner");
        return localPythonInterpreter.get("JarRunner");
}