Using 2017 Aliases in RT-LAB

Please see Using Aliases in RT-LAB for the main article.

This page discusses the 2017() methods that were added to the RT-LAB Aliases (Python API calls).

In 2017, new copies of the standard aliases (see Note above) were added to RT-LAB.

These were:

CreateAlias2017()
GetAliasDescription2017()
GetValueByAlias2017()
LoadAlias2017()
LoadAliasDescription2017()
RemoveAlias2017()
RenameAlias2017()
SaveAlias2017()
SetValueByAlias2017()

The above work identically, in syntax and method, to their correspondingly named counterparts without the '2017()' suffix. They may support later versions of Python but are implemented identically.

The only difference is that the non-2017() aliases were maintained for backwards compatibility with TestDrive 2.8.

Thus:

Users concerned with backwards compatibility with TestDrive 2.8 should use the non-2017() functions.
Users who are not concerned with this should use the 2017() functions.