How to use REST library in Robot Framework?

Question

Does anybody know how to use the REST Library for Robot Framework? The library is available here http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-restlibrary/source/browse/trunk/RestLibrary.py. It seems like there is no documentation available.

I tried something like this in Robot Framework but there is no response coming back from the request:

REST Test Case
    Get    https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/timezone/json?location=39.6034810,-119.6822510&timestamp=1331161200&sensor=true
    Response    test

Any ideas how to use this library?

Answer 1

REST Library for Robot Framework is not developed since 2009 (see changes).

Robot Framework official page references several HTTP level testing libraries, as for example:

• robotframework-requests - Development is active and uses Requests HTTP python library.

  Example Usage:

  Grab Avatar Url
           Create Session    github    https://api.github.com     
    ${resp}=
      ...  Get Request       github    /users/jandias
           Should Be Equal As Strings
             ...             ${resp.status_code}  200     
           Dictionary Should Contain Key
             ...             ${resp.json()}       avatar_url
  

• robotframework-httplibrary - Uses WebTest (with livetest) python library...