Error during installation related to python dependency madoka

[MarvKler]

Hi @manykarim,
i just wanted to try out you self-healing library for a PoC in my current project.
During the installation i've got the following error message which requires me to install the Visual C++ Build Tools for Windows. This seems to be related to the python package madoka.
As i have not seen any info about that in your documentation, i assume this is an issue with any dependency or something to add to your docs.

Could you please double check the root cause for it & give some feedback ?
Thank you! :)

Building wheels for collected packages: madoka
  Building wheel for madoka (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building wheel for madoka (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [14 lines of output]
      C:\Users\z0053m7z\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-58o0wcou\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py:759: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: License classifiers are deprecated.
      !!

              ********************************************************************************
              Please consider removing the following classifiers in favor of a SPDX license expression:

              License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License

              See https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/writing-pyproject-toml/#license for details.
              ********************************************************************************

      !!
        self._finalize_license_expression()
      error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/ 
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for madoka
Failed to build madoka

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 25.0.1 -> 25.2
[notice] To update, run: python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (madoka)

[manykarim]

Hi @MarvKler ,
It seems pip tries to build that particular package from source instead of installing an existing wheel.
May I ask what OS and Python version you are using?

[MarvKler]

Thanks for the fast reply!
I am using Windows 11 with Python 3.12.9.

One more question: which package do you recommend to use - robotframework-heal OR robotframework-selfhealing-agent ?

[manykarim]

Ah, I found something. It seems to be caused by litellm.
I need to investigate further.

BerriAI/litellm#14762

[manykarim]

As a quick workaround, you can first install litellm with version 1.77.1 (or lower) and afterward install robotframework-heal.

[manykarim]

In short:
https://github.com/MarketSquare/robotframework-selfhealing-agents (as it is a bit newer and it has two core-maintainers)

robotframework-selfhealing-agents and robotframework-heal are very similar in their current features and their usage.
There are a few differences though:

Library Support:

• robotframework-heal supports Browser and Appium
• robotframework-selfhealing-agents supports Browser and Selenium (but Appium will follow)

Reporting:

• robotframework-selfhealing-agents will give you a detailed report with updated lines, diff and a fixed .robot file
• robotframework-heal gives you a single html file with updated lines

As I'm involved with the maintenance of both, I will try to also migrate the "good" features of heal to selfhealing-agents.
And maybe announce that robotframework-heal might be stopped.

But I have not made a decision yet.

[MarvKler]

As i am quite new in using self-healing mechanism, i have one more question. Please let me know if i should stop asking here & switch to Slack instead.

In my case i am using the following combination of keywords to wait max. 5s for a locator which is not mandatory to be visible. Depending on the state i decide how to proceed in my keyword.

${visible} =    BuiltIn.Run Keyword And Return Status
                    ...    Browser.Wait For Elements State    ${lable_info_message}    visible    5s
# depending on ${visible] -> proceed in different ways.

Now, the self healing detects this as error and tries to fix the locator which is not required. How can i handle those logical operations in my code in combination with the self healing libraries ?
I dont want to switch to BuiltIn.Sleep 5s & Browser.Get Element States because i try to avoid Sleeps at all.

[ianchov]

Same error. This "madoka" wheel is very suspicious to be dependancy. Can anyone explain?