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Labels: Target-2.8
Comment #11 on issue 1018 by pekka.klarck: Alternative extension for test
data in plain text files
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1018
I think this is a valid enhancement for 2.8. I cannot, obviously, make any
promises will it actually make it there, when such a release will be made,
etc. I anyway tentatively target this for 2.8.
What we should try to agree already now is what extensions to use. I've
been thinking this a bit more and feel that following points, discussed
more thoroughly on my comment 7 (testing auto-linking: comment #7 c7 #c7):
1) Test cases files and resource files should have separate extension. That
makes parsing slightly faster as resource files can be ignored when parsing
test cases. Init files can have same extension as test case files as they
anyway have a recognizable body. The extensions could be, for example, in
format like '.??t' and '.??r'.
2) It should be possible to have separate alternative extensions for data
in HTML format and perhaps also for TSV. There's no need to implement them
immediately, but we need to take that into account.
With the above restrictions, the extensions for plain text test case and
resource files could be, for example, '.rtt' and '.rtr'. We could then
later, if needed, use '.rht' and '.rhr' with HTML data. These extensions
don't seem to be used by any major applications.
Another good possibility is '.rftt/.rftr' and '.rfht/.rfhr'. If we consider
plain text format the default and recommended format, we could also
use '.rft/.rfr' for plain text and, for example, '.rfh/.rfs' for HTML.
