Add .robot and .resource to extensions.py

[djalan]

Hello

Please kindly add .robot and .resource extensions for Robot Framework. They are text files containing pretty code formulated in English that actually run Python code.

They look a lot like .feature files that use the Gherkin syntax.

Here is a Robot file:

*** Settings ***
Documentation     A test suite for valid login.
...
...               Keywords are imported from the resource file
Resource          keywords.resource
Default Tags      positive

*** Test Cases ***
Login User with Password
    Connect to Server
    Login User            ironman    1234567890
    Verify Valid Login    Tony Stark
    [Teardown]    Close Server Connection

[asottile]

extensions need to be unambiguous of which neither of these appear to be from a quick Internet search

[djalan]

Thanks for your quick reply.

Robocorp raised 32M$ in the last 5 years and Robot Framework is the biggest Python automation framework.

I just searched .robot file extension on Google and DuckDuckGo and the no. 1 result is what we are looking for.

Moreoever, .rb is already taken by the Ruby programming language. .robot is a logicial choice.

But, I have to agree with you that .resource was a horrendous decision. It should have been .robotr or something like that. I searched Google for filetype:resource site:github.com and there are many conflicts.

I could amend the PR to only add the .robot extension and get rid of .resource.

@pekkaklarck would you like to comment?

[pekkaklarck]

Robot Framework is fairly popular and I don't know about any other project using the .robot extension, so including it in a list of known extensions would sound fair for me. Anyway, if maintainers see otherwise, I don't have much interest to argue. Their project, their rules.

This isn't the correct place to discuss is the .resource extension good or not. That said, I doubt changing it now would be worth the effort, but we could extend it so that something like example.robot.resource would work so that example would be considered the base name. If you think that would make sense, please submit an issue to Robot's tracker.