Type converter

Author: aaltat

src/SeleniumLibrary/utils/types.py

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 import os
 from datetime import timedelta
+from typing import Any
 
 from robot.utils import is_string, timestr_to_secs
 from robot.utils import is_truthy, is_falsy  # noqa
@@ -32,3 +33,7 @@ def _convert_timeout(timeout):
     if isinstance(timeout, timedelta):
         return timeout.total_seconds()
     return timestr_to_secs(timeout)
+
+
+def type_converter(argument: Any) -> str:
+    return type(argument).__name__.lower()

utest/test/utils/test_type_converter.py

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import os
+
+import pytest
+from approvaltests import verify_all
+from approvaltests.reporters import GenericDiffReporterFactory
+
+from SeleniumLibrary.utils.types import type_converter
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def reporter():
+    path = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+    reporter_json = os.path.abspath(
+        os.path.join(path, "..", "approvals_reporters.json")
+    )
+    factory = GenericDiffReporterFactory()
+    factory.load(reporter_json)
+    return factory.get_first_working()
+
+
+def test_type_converter(reporter):
+    results = [
+        type_converter("str"),
+        type_converter(1),
+        type_converter({"key": 1}),
+    ]
+    verify_all("Type converter", results, reporter=reporter)

utest/test/utils/test_type_converter.test_type_converter.approved.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Type converter
+
+0) str
+1) int
+2) dict