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Question: how to get keyword results in listener

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Hello there, awesome work on Robot, thanks everyone

I have stupid question:
How to get keyword value in listener?

So for example I do have a testing library:

@library(scope="TEST", version="0.0.1", doc_format="ROBOT")
class Test:
    @keyword
    def test(self):
      return 'result'

And I have listener(v3) with defined method end_keyword:

    def end_keyword(
        self, data: robot.running.model.Keyword, result: robot.result.Keyword
    ):
        result.what? == 'result'

robot.result.Keyword looks like is not holding result, despite its name. And result is accessible to robot, because you can assign it to variable. But how to get it from listener?

Use case would be to collect artifacts in some other way.

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Start with the listener v3 end_keyword callback and the robot.result.Keyword object shown in the issue. Determine whether the keyword's returned value is exposed there and define what listener behavior would support collecting artifacts; the issue does not name a file or test to run.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
testing-qa
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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