Getting Repository Comments into Code

[Andymann]

Hi everyone,

there is this post from 2014 where it's said that it is not possible to get a repository item's comment into a code-module in any way: "how-to-get-the-comment-of-repository-in-codemodule-t6524" (I'm not allowed to post links as I'm a new user)

Has this situation changed in Ranorex 6.0?

[krstcs]

No, there is still no way to get that information.

You could name your repo items using the information you want and use that name instead.

[Andymann]

Somehwat unfortunately we established a naming convention which proved to be quite well-working (we are coming from a RationalFunctionalTester background). Furthermore I see potential problems in naming a button " Button 'Neu' im Fenster 'Änderungen schließen' " with all the special characters etc. .

Anyways: I realized that I can access the comments by analyzing the repository's underlying xml file.
I already hacked together an application that analyzes the testcase's xml (*.rxlog.data) and the repository's xml and provides me the data I need to create a heavily customized log.