Hello,

I am relatively new to robot framework and stumpled upon a problem while developing a rf library in vscode while using the robot framework lsp extension:

The lsp extension runs libdoc while linting/checking the code.

In my library code i check for custom environment variables on class object init. These variables are only set on real test exection but of course not while just developing the tests. This results in erros of the extension while developing.

The vscode extension runs libdoc.

As a workaround I suggest that the libdoc robot framework runs sets a special environment variable like

RUN_BY_ROBOT_FRAMEWORK_LIBDOC=TRUE

Then my code could first check this environment variable and could skip the rest of the init code to avoid robot framework lsp errors.

Does this solution make sense or is my approach wrong?

Here I described my problem in the lsp repo:

robocorp/robotframework-lsp#988