[Feature Request] Flag to log run info on removal from db

[HuntTheSun]

Would anyone be interested in a flag (could be handled by an env var also if you prefer) that logs run data to a json before removing the run from the db?

robotdashboard -r 'index=1:3' --log-removed-runs "/var/log/robotdashboard/removed_runs.json"

cat removed_runs.json | jq .
{
  "run_start": "2025-03-13 00:26:36.304669-05:00",
  "full_name": "Other",
  "name": "Other",
  "total": 114,
  "passed": 104,
  "failed": 10,
  "skipped": 0,
  "elapsed_s": "14.655",
  "start_time": "2025-03-13 00:26:36.305700",
  "tags": "prod,project_1",
  "run_alias": "output-20250313-002636",
  "path": "D:\\CodeProjects\\robotframework-dashboard\\.\\tests\\robot\\resources\\outputs\\output-20250313-002636.xml",
  "metadata": "[]",
  "project_version": "2.3"
}
...

# You could then for example use the log for cleaning up leftover log.html files by getting the corresponding run_alias
cat removed_runs.json | jq .run_alias
"output-20250313-002134"
"output-20250313-002151"
"output-20250313-002222"

Would that be something that could be of use to the community or would it not be worth the extra flag in your opinion?
I implemented it roughly to see check much hassle it would be and its not really a hassle or hacky (for my tastes).
I would of course volunteer to implement it if you like the feature.

Thanks in advance!

[timdegroot1996]

What would be the end goal of having this data? I understand keeping some form of it available, but what usecases do you see?

Apart from maybe the only usecase I can think of which is reinserting it if you accidentially deleted it...

[HuntTheSun]

Hi,

for example my team would like to have an easy way to identify unneeded .xml and report/log.htmls of which the runs have been removed. We have a decently complicated retention schedule and pipeline, so it would be great if we could grab for example the aliases of the runs that were removed in order to identify which files to clean up.
It could also allow us to more easily script a sync functionality for another software that pertains to tests, so that I can more easily identify and remove runs that were removed from the dashboard in other software.

We probably only need the aliases for our use case, but I thought having a feature with all data would allow for more use cases I haven't thought of.

[vladislav1q]

Does rf-dashboard supports autoremove output.xml from database by timeout ?