NormalizeAssignments

Normalize assignments.

It can change all assignment signs to either the most commonly used in a given file or a configured one. Default behaviour is autodetect for assignments from Keyword Calls and removing assignment signs in *** Variables *** section. It can be freely configured.

Transformer configuration

NormalizeAssignments is included in the default transformers, but it can be also run separately with:

robotidy --transform NormalizeAssignments src

You can also disable NormalizeAssignments:

robotidy --configure NormalizeAssignments:enabled=False src

In this code most common is no equal sign at all. It should remove = signs from all lines:

Before

*** Variables ***
${var} =  ${1}
@{list}  a
...  b
...  c

${variable}=  10


*** Keywords ***
Keyword
    ${var}  Keyword1
    ${var}   Keyword2
    ${var}=    Keyword

After

*** Variables ***
${var}  ${1}
@{list}  a
...  b
...  c

${variable}  10


*** Keywords ***
Keyword
    ${var}  Keyword1
    ${var}   Keyword2
    ${var}    Keyword

You can configure that behaviour to automatically add desired equal sign with equal_sign_type (default autodetect) and equal_sign_type_variables (default remove) parameters. (possible types are: autodetect, remove, equal_sign (‘=’), space_and_equal_sign (’ =’):

robotidy -c NormalizeAssignments:equal_sign_type=space_and_equal_sign -c NormalizeAssignments:equal_sign_type_variables=autodetect src

Before

*** Variables ***
${var}=  ${1}
@{list}  a
...  b
...  c

${variable}=  10


*** Keywords ***
Keyword
    ${var}  Keyword1
    ${var}   Keyword2
    ${var}=    Keyword

After

*** Variables ***
${var}=  ${1}
@{list}=  a
...  b
...  c

${variable}=  10


*** Keywords ***
Keyword
    ${var} =  Keyword1
    ${var} =   Keyword2
    ${var} =    Keyword

Skip formatting

It is possible to use the following arguments to skip formatting of the code:

• Skip sections

It is also possible to use disablers (Disablers) but skip option makes it easier to skip all instances of given type of the code.