Reset results directory path through command-line option

Eggplant Functional
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Hi

The default results directory for a test suite is always set to /Results. We can reset this default value through the test suite Settings tab in Eggplant IDE.

I develop my tests in IDE and re-run them in command-line mode. I’m wondering whether we can make use of any command-line option to overwrite the default results directory path for current run or not? I’m hoping that the results directory path is just overwritten for current command-line run, yet the original results path that we have in Eggplant IDE settings tab remains.

Is this possible? Please advice. Thanks.

regards
Ai Choo

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Results locations are stored on a per suite basis. This is stored in the SuiteInfo file in your Suite directory. You could modify it but that would be global across any copy of Eggplant that opens that suite.

Unfortunately there isn’t a CLI option to do what you are looking for, so we’ll consider this a feature request that we’ll try to work into a future release.

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As Jonathan said, we’ll consider adding a runscript command-line option for this in the future. In the meantime, it’s possible to hack something together using a script. Here’s a little script that will set the ResultsFolder in the SuiteInfo file of a script:

(** SetResultsFolder.script
This script sets the results folder of a suite. Call this script to set the results folder prior to running any scripts in the suite.
**)
params pathToSuite, newResultsFolder

if pathToSuite is empty
	answer folder "Select a Suite"
	if it is empty then exit all
	put it into pathToSuite
end if

if newResultsFolder is empty then
	answer folder "Choose the results folder"
	if it is empty then exit all
	put it into newResultsFolder
end if

// find the SuiteInfo file
set infoFile to pathToSuite & "/SuiteInfo"

if there is no file infoFile then
	put "There is no file " & infoFile
	put "Unable to set results folder"
	exit all
end if

// read the suiteInfo file
put file infoFile into suiteInfo

// find the current definition of the results folder
put offset of "ResultsFolder = " in suiteInfo into startLoc
put offset of return within suiteInfo after startLoc into endLoc

// if results folder isn't already specified, prepare to insert rather than replace
if startLoc is zero then set startLoc to endLoc+1

// replace (or insert) the new definition
put "ResultsFolder = " & quote & newResultsFolder & quote & ";" & return \
		into chars startLoc to endLoc of suiteInfo

// rewrite the suiteInfo file with the new result location
put suiteInfo into file infoFile

You should probably run this when the suite isn’t open in Eggplant (otherwise Eggplant is likely to overwrite your change). If you call this script from the command line be sure to pass both the path to the suite and the desired results folder as parameters. Otherwise it will try to use the “answer folder” command to ask the user for them, but the ask and answer commands don’t work when running from the command line.

To do exactly what you’ve asked for you’ll want to save the previous result folder setting somewhere (either by modifying this script or through some other mechanism) and then restore it again afterward. Good luck!