We get the following error in Robot Framework "Keyword 'OperatingSystem.Create File' got positional argument after named arguments"

The below robot framework keywords were used in one of our test cases:

${data_dict}= Create Dictionary apiproxy ${APIPROXY} request_verb ${REQUEST_VERB} basepath **${basepath}** pathsuffix **${pathsuffix}**
${data_file}= generate data ${data_dict}
Create File test.sh content=${QPID_COMMAND} ${QPID} -org ${ORG} -env ${ENVIRONMENT} -exchange ${exch_name} -queue ${queue_name} -useProtoBuf -noOfMessages ${msg_count} -batchsize 1 -config ${data_file} 

Here the value of ${basepath}:

${basepath} = ${EMPTY} and ${pathsuffix} = /testpath/

When I try to run this, the error "Keyword 'OperatingSystem.Create File' got positional argument after named arguments" is displayed. I was not able to access the Robot framework Docs.

1 Answer

What the error literally means is that you can't put named arguments (eg: x=y) before positional arguments. In the code you show in your question you are giving the keyword a named argument of content=${QPID_COMMAND} followed by another argument that begins with ${QPID}.

Could it be that you have a typo, and that there shouldn't be two spaces between those two? Robot is seeing those two spaces before ${QPID} as a column separator, so it thinks ${QPID} is a separate argument rather than as part of the content.