RPA.FileSystem.Append To File fails if file does not exists

[orlof]

[orlof]

Consider whether it is more productive to fail the keyword or implicitly create the missing file. In the use cases that I have faced, it would have been easier to just automatically create the file. However, if also the parent directory is missing then I would fail this keyword. Opinions?

[cmin764]

No strong opinion here and my common use-cases would be:

A.

Append To File    ...    ensure=True

-> ensures that

1. Parent directories are created (mkdir -p)
2. File is created if it doesn't exist (touch)

B.

Append To File    ...

-> works as before

This will simplify usual calls like (note steps 1, 2, 3):

File work
    ${exists} =     Does File Exist    ${text_file}  # 1
    Run Keyword Unless    ${exists}    Create File    ${text_file}  # 2
    ${time} =     Get Current Date
    Append To File    ${text_file}    Ran at: ${time}${\n}  # 3

@mikahanninen Let me know if during our sync it was decided something else.