Robot Framework Run Keyword and Expect Error

Question

I am facing the following issue when executing keyword "Run Keyword and expect Error" in Robot Framework.

First I tried this:

run keyword and expect error    InvalidElementStateException: Message: invalid element state: Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated  Input Text  ${indFNPatientHealth Link}  RCIGM_FN

and it failed. The trace back is:

17:44:01.894    FAIL    InvalidElementStateException: Message: invalid element state: Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated
  (Session info: chrome=60.0.3112.101)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.30.477700 (0057494ad8732195794a7b32078424f92a5fce41),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64)
17:44:01.894    FAIL    Expected error 'InvalidElementStateException: Message: invalid element state: Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated' but got 'InvalidElementStateException: Message: invalid element state: Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated
  (Session info: chrome=60.0.3112.101)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.30.477700 (0057494ad8732195794a7b32078424f92a5fce41),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64)
'.

So I modified the expected error copying the full text including session info and driver info. The updated code is:

run keyword and expect error    InvalidElementStateException: Message: invalid element state: Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated \ \ (Session info: chrome=60.0.3112.101) \ \ (Driver info: chromedriver=2.30.477700 (0057494ad8732195794a7b32078424f92a5fce41),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64)    Input Text    ${indFNPatientHealth Link}    RCIGM_FN

And It failed again .

17:31:59.291    FAIL    InvalidElementStateException: Message: invalid element state: Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated
  (Session info: chrome=60.0.3112.101)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.30.477700 (0057494ad8732195794a7b32078424f92a5fce41),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64)
17:31:59.291    FAIL    Expected error 'InvalidElementStateException: Message: invalid element state: Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated   (Session info: chrome=60.0.3112.101)   (Driver info: chromedriver=2.30.477700 (0057494ad8732195794a7b32078424f92a5fce41),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64)' but got 'InvalidElementStateException: Message: invalid element state: Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated
  (Session info: chrome=60.0.3112.101)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.30.477700 (0057494ad8732195794a7b32078424f92a5fce41),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64)

Thanks in advance for your support for solving this.

Answer 1

The string you're trying to catch is quite long, variable and contains line skips. Also, the debug data is kind of irrelevant to your test. If I was you I'd just catch the whole message, passing * to Run Keyword And Expect Error and then use a partial string match keyword to ensure I caught a InvalidElementStateException exception. You may also add your message to the partial check, but remove the variable debug data.

See Run Keyword And Expect Error

Something like this

${msg}=    Run Keyword And Expect Error    *    Input Text    ${indFNPatientHealth Link}    RCIGM_FN
Should Contain    ${msg}    InvalidElementStateException