robo-appian

robo-appian provides reusable Appian-specific UI components and interaction utilities. Generic Playwright resource ownership, wrappers, and pytest fixtures live in robo-automation.

Architecture

Consumer / CORE application code
        ↓
robo-appian AppianPage / AppianLocator / components
        ↓
robo-automation generic resource lifecycle
        ↓
Appian

For Appian consumers, robo-appian provides AppianPage and AppianLocator. Both robo-automation and robo-appian are pytest plugins discovered through installed pytest11 entry points. The fixture layering is automatic:

robo-automation: generic page lifecycle
                         ↓
robo-appian:     appian_page -> AppianPage
                         ↓
                 page -> AppianPage

No consumer wrapper-selector fixture is required. A normal Appian test simply requests page:

from robo_appian import AppianPage


def test_example(page: AppianPage) -> None:
    page.textbox(label="Request Name").fill("Example Request")
    page.button(name="Submit").click()

A consuming application such as CORE may override only the public page fixture to add application-specific navigation/login while depending on appian_page; generic resource creation and cleanup remain owned by robo-automation.

Install

pip install robo-appian

Python 3.12 is required. The package depends on robo-automation for generic automation lifecycle support.

Install Playwright-managed browser binaries with the robo-appian CLI:

robo-appian install-browser
robo-appian install-browser firefox
robo-appian install-browser chromium
robo-appian install-browser webkit

robo-appian install-browser all is equivalent to the no-argument full install. The command uses the current Python interpreter (sys.executable -m playwright install ...) and is platform independent.

Component APIs and Scope

The preferred Appian-facing API uses AppianPage, AppianLocator, and AppianScope. AppianScope is AppianPage | AppianLocator; use AppianPage for page-wide operations and AppianLocator only when a dialog or subtree must constrain the search.

AppianButton, AppianTextbox, and AppianDate are implemented inside robo_appian.appian and are created through page.button(name="..."), page.textbox(...), and page.date(...). The legacy component APIs remain compatibility surfaces while fluent Appian components are the preferred consumer model.

Documentation

Full documentation and component API reference:

https://dinilmithra.github.io/robo-appian/

Developer

Dinil Mithra — developer and maintainer of robo-appian.

Repository: https://github.com/dinilmithra/robo-appian
Issues: https://github.com/dinilmithra/robo-appian/issues

License

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