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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.

Disabling the formatter

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

robocop format --select NormalizeAssignments

You can also disable it:

robocop format --configure NormalizeAssignments.enabled=False

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

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

${variable}=  10


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

*** 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
  • equal_sign ('=')
  • space_and_equal_sign (' =')
robocop format -c NormalizeAssignments.equal_sign_type=space_and_equal_sign -c NormalizeAssignments.equal_sign_type_variables=autodetect

[tool.robocop.format]
configure = [
    "NormalizeAssignments.equal_sign_type=space_and_equal_sign",
    "NormalizeAssignments.equal_sign_type_variables=autodetect"
]

will result in:

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

${variable}=  10


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

*** 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:

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