resource management about pabot HOT 9 CLOSED

The problem that is now also discussed in the robot framework users group ( https://groups.google.com/d/msg/robotframework-users/K7Tos3XUNBE/speK9ebayeQJ ) is the one where the parallel tests need to reserve their own version of some resource ( in this case it is the server).

I was thinking of adding a new library that can be used remotely with Remote library for distributing this kind of resources. This would allow reserving and releasing resources very effectively - so this would be similar to common locking mechanisms..

I'm not yet sure what would be the best way to solve this resource reservation problem - it might also be the way you suggest..

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I'll try to implement the solution I've described. It could serve as a proof of concept. Then we might decide whether it is acceptable or not.

The solution you described with a robotframework library seems to me a more general solution to this problem but may be more difficult to setup for the end user.

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Here is a possible implementation : https://github.com/lionelperrin/pabot/commits/resources
Let me know if it's worth a pull request.

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It says on my machine:
[ ERROR ] Parsing '--variable' failed: Data source does not exist.

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Thanks,
It looks that I put this note to illustrate my idea a bit too early. Should be fixed now.

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Log , report or output files are not generated with the new version.

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Sorry, I've fixed it and then I've broken it again... I should have start with #2 😄

Should be better now.

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Hi,

I have tested code from https://github.com/lionelperrin/pabot/commits/resources and it's working fine.

Thanks & Regards,
Sachin Nikam

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The current version 0.9 has a method for resource distribution.

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