Feature Request: CLI export for RoboView analysis (generate a browsable report)

[GerwinLaagland]

Request

Could RoboView expose its analysis results via a CLI, so it can generate an output file that people can view without opening the project in an IDE?

What I’m looking for is a report you can navigate through (similar to Robot Framework’s log.html / report.html). The goal is to share RoboView’s findings with reviewers / QA / other stakeholders who aren’t working in the code editor.

Why

Right now the information RoboView collects is locked to the “code environment”. In practice, that means only developers using the plugin can benefit from it. If RoboView could export a report, it becomes usable in code reviews and CI (as an artifact), and it’s much easier to share.

What “done” looks like

• A command that runs RoboView analysis on a folder/repo and writes output to disk
• Output is a static, browsable report (open it in a browser)
• Basic navigation: suite/resource tree + clickable drill-down to details RoboView already gathers
• Works headless so it can run in CI

Optional (nice to have)

• JSON output as well (so teams can build their own dashboards or diff results between runs)

[jublankeviadee]

Hi @GerwinLaagland,

thanks a lot for your request! A reporting feature is something quite a few users have asked for, so it’s one of the priorities on our upcoming roadmap.

Until now, we had mainly considered reports as something embedded in VS Code and/or available as a download from there. Your suggestion to support a headless mode for CI integration makes a lot of sense, though.

From a technical perspective, extending our backend to support this is straightforward. You would be able to install the backend via pip in your image (as you do now anyways) and then use the CLI to generate reports in a CI environment. I just can’t give you a concrete timeline yet for when this will be shipped.

What I can say is that we will now integrate it together with the initial reporting feature, so you will have both options.