[BUG] "No module named 'robotcode.plugin'" error when using robotcode cli

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Describe the bug when attempting to run the robotcode command from the pypi package, the following error occurs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "C:\Users\user\project\.venv\Scripts\robotcode.exe\__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\user\project\.venv\Lib\site-packages\robotcode\cli\__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
    from robotcode.plugin import (
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'robotcode.plugin'

To Reproduce run the following commands:

1. pip install robotcode
2. robotcode

Expected behavior robotcode cli runs on my project like it does in the vscode extension

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• RobotCode Version 0.71.0
• OS: windows 11
• Python Version 3.12
• RobotFramework Version 7.0

Additional context i'm not sure if the cli is even intended to be used outside of the extension like this, but my use case is to add a robotcode check in my CI to match the checks the vscode extension does locally

[d-biehl]

Thanks for the issue, I have corrected it.

The RobotCode Command Line Interface is used internally by RobotCode, some parts are already finished but others not yet, I'm still working on it.

What is still missing as a major point is the analysis of a Robot Framework project, i.e. "Keyword not found" and something like that, the language server already does this, but it doesn't work on the command line yet.

At RoboCon 2024 Online I will be giving a tutorial on RobotCode CLI Tools, I want to have it ready by then, so please be patient ;-) By then there will also be a little more documentation.

But as a short outlook: Installing the "robotcode" package alone is useless, it is only the common interface to the individual tools. Since you don't need all the tools in a CI environment, e.g. the language server, you have to specify the actual tool or install the package directly.

So for the RobotCode Runner e.g.

pip install robotcode-runner

or

pip install robotcode[runner]

there are the following tools that currently work:

• robotcode-runner
• robotcode-debugger
• robotcode-language-server

the following will follow:

• robotcode-analyse
• robotcode-templates

As I said, you have to be patient until RoboCon Online...

On https://robotcode.io you can already find a version of the documentation under the tab CLI

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Thanks for the issue, I have corrected it.

is this fix in 0.76.0? because i still get the same error in that version:

> robotcode --help
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "C:\project\.venv\Scripts\robotcode.exe\__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
  File "C:\project\.venv\Lib\site-packages\robotcode\cli\__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
    from robotcode.plugin import (
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'robotcode.plugin'

[d-biehl]

What did you install?

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pip install robotcode

[d-biehl]

this is now really fixed with 0.76.2.

It is not enough to only install the robotcode package you need to specify also a tool like runner, debugger or so.

like pip install robotcode[runner] or pip intstall robotcode-runner or pip install robotcode[debugger] or pip intstall robotcode-debugger

or if you want to install all use pip install robotcode[all]

[DetachHead]

works now, thanks!