User Guide

Table of Contents Return Types Argument Types Dynamic API Libraries Static API Libraries

Return Types

Java type	Python type
java.lang.String, char[]	string
int, java.lang.Integer, short, java.lang.Short, byte, java.lang.Byte	int
long, java.lang.Long	string
double, java.lang.Double, float, java.lang.Float	float
boolean, java.lang.Boolean	bool
java.util.List	list
arrays of primitive types except char, arrays of wrapped primitives	list
java.util.Map	dict

All primitive types and their corresponding wrapper classes are supported singularly or as arrays. However, to conform to the XML-RPC specifications, long and Long are returned as strings. long[] and Long[] are returned as arrays of strings (lists in Robot Framework).

Argument Types

Java type	Python type
java.lang.String	string
int, java.lang.Integer	int
double, java.lang.Double	float
boolean, java.lang.Boolean	bool
java.util.List	list, tuple
java.util.Map	dict

Dynamic API Libraries

Dynamic libraries are responsible for dispatching run_keyword calls. jrobotremoteserver, therefore, has no way of determining the argument types. Do not mix arrays and lists because of this. jrobotremoteserver will send array-type (XML-RPC) arguments as arrays first. If that fails due to an IllegalArgumentException, it will convert arrays to ArrayLists and invoke run_Keyword/runKeyword again.

Static API Libraries

Public methods in the user class and its super classes are considered keywords. Methods from Object.class that are not overridden are excluded.

Currently, jrobotremoteserver does not support using multiple methods to implement a single keyword as seen the user guide.