How is this related to Robot Framework plugin? What are you trying to do?

pavans thanks reporting the issue. We are grateful when a user reports a problem.

You'll need to provide much more information in order to persuade others to volunteer their time to investigate the issue. The "How to report an issue" page lists the types of details that are needed so that others can investigate an issue. If that information is not provided, this will likely be closed as "Cannot reproduce".

Hi aleksisimell actually I'm getting this error while trying to publish the robot test results to the jenkins Dashboard. I got this exception while assigning the robot results to the build after parsing the results file. 

What versions of the plugin, Robot Framework, and Jenkins are you using? And what does your pipeline look like?

I can't really even begin to investigate with this bug description as and markewaite said, without further information, I will have to close this ticket due to lacking information.

Hi,

I am facing the same issue while using robot plugin to publish the results. Let me provide more information.

When the plugin is used:

[Pipeline] End of Pipeline
Also:   org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.actions.ErrorAction$ErrorId: 392fd72f-5164-49c5-a9d4-11eacbe0a368
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "String.length()" because "text" is null
	at java.base/java.text.SimpleDateFormat.parse(SimpleDateFormat.java:1474)
	at java.base/java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:397)
	at hudson.plugins.robot.model.RobotCaseResult.timeDifference(RobotCaseResult.java:68)
	at hudson.plugins.robot.model.RobotCaseResult.getDuration(RobotCaseResult.java:117)
	at hudson.plugins.robot.model.RobotSuiteResult.tally(RobotSuiteResult.java:405)
	at hudson.plugins.robot.model.RobotSuiteResult.tally(RobotSuiteResult.java:413)
	at hudson.plugins.robot.model.RobotSuiteResult.tally(RobotSuiteResult.java:413)
	at hudson.plugins.robot.model.RobotResult.tally(RobotResult.java:422)
	at hudson.plugins.robot.RobotBuildAction.setResult(RobotBuildAction.java:124)
	at hudson.plugins.robot.RobotBuildAction.<init>(RobotBuildAction.java:95)
	at hudson.plugins.robot.RobotPublisher.perform(RobotPublisher.java:299)
	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.CoreStep$Execution.run(CoreStep.java:101)
	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.CoreStep$Execution.run(CoreStep.java:71)
	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.SynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.lambda$start$0(SynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.java:47)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:539)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)
[Gitea] Notifying branch build status: FAILURE There was a failure building this commit
[Gitea] Notified
Finished: FAILURE

When the plugin is not used:

[Pipeline] End of Pipeline
[Gitea] Notifying branch build status: SUCCESS This commit looks good
[Gitea] Notified
Finished: SUCCESS

The versions:

- Robot Framework version: 7.0

• plugin version: 3.5.0

• Jenkins version: 2.414.2

Hi villacisd,

Thank you for the input! Could you also provide a sample test case or output.xml file and a snippet of a pipeline where this can be reproduced? I'm not getting this error from my test pipelines.

Are you using pabot or any other additional tool apart from just calling Robot Framework in your pipeline?

Hi aleksisimell , 

Yes I use pabot to run the test suites. Do I have to add any other plugin in this case? 

You don't need an additional plugin, but there's the problem.

I narrowed this down to pabot, because the plugin version 3.5.0 uses Robot Framework's schemaVersion attribute to define which properties to set. With Robot Framework, the schemaVersion 5 means Robot Framework version 7. Pabot is not adding this attribute to the output.xml file, but otherwise it's similar to Robot Framework output.xml. Which means that there's the "elapsed" attribute and no "endtime" attribute. However, the plugin doesn't know this, since it hasn't parsed the "schemaVersion" attribute to determine which attributes to use... So it tries to parse the non-existent "endtime" attribute causing this nullPointerException.

I'm not sure this works, but could you try to run the output.xml through rebot and then pass that to the plugin to see if that helps you pass?

As a workaround you can also run Robot Framework with the --legacy-output option to give it the old attributes from RF 6.x.

pavans , Additionally, you should check if the latest version of pabot (2.17.0, released 3 days ago at the time of writing) helps as that now has RF7.0 support as well

When using the newest pabot version (2.17.0), the plugin works as expected and the output file is parsed correctly. Closing issue as not a defect.