Have several active connections and switch between active connections.

[vmaillol-altair]

I would like have several active connections handled by an alias like the built-in robot library Telnet or Process

We can do this using robot.utils.ConnectionCache.

I you want, I can create a pull request to add Switch REST Client keyword

    | ${id}=              |`Start REST Client` | foobar.com     |
    | `Start REST Client` | localhost:5014     | alias=site1    |

    You can use Switch REST Client
    | `Switch REST Client | ${id}              |                |
    | `GET`               | /route_1           |                |
    | `GET`               | /route_2           |                |
    | `Switch REST Client | site1              |                |
    | `GET`               | /route_1           |                |

    Or provide id or alias for each call
    | `GET`               | /route_1           | alias=${id}    |
    | `GET`               | /route_2           | alias=${id}    |
    | `GET`               | /route_3           | alias=site1    |

[Atihinen]

Would the robot own WITH NAME work in this case? http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#setting-custom-name-to-test-library

[asimell]

You can also import REST without specifying the URL. In this case you just have to specify the full URL in the request. So essentially it means something like this

| GET | ${url_1}/route_1 |
| GET | ${url_1}/route_2 |
| GET | ${url_2}/route_1 |

And you can call multiple websites without having to worry about switching between instances.

[Atihinen]

We will close this issue as duplicate for #19 if this feature is needed please add your input to #19