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Could this tool check for errors likes "Multiple keywords with name XXX found" ?

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Tech stack
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Reproduce the failure using module1.py, module2.py, and feature.resource, then inspect how robotframework-sherlock currently analyzes Robot Framework usage. The work is complete when the tool detects and reports the ambiguous “Multiple keywords with name” error represented by these duplicate libraries.

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Description

I had a test suite failing due to this error:

FAIL | Multiple keywords with name 'Read Json File' found. Give the full name of the keyword you want to use:
     module1.Read Json File
     module2.Read Json File

Screenshot from HTML report:
2022-08-25 16_06_44
Python source code of module1.py:

import json

def read_json_file(filepath):
    with open(filepath, encoding='utf8') as file:
        return json.load(file)

...

Python source code of module2.py:

from module1 import read_json_file
...

Usage in feature.resource:

Library    ../libraries/module1.py
Library    ../libraries/module2.py
...
${body}=    Read Json File    ${CURDIR}/postPayload.json

Could robotframework-sherlock be able to detect the error raised at runtime by Robot Framework?

Note: I previously asked for the same feature to be added to https://github.com/MarketSquare/robotframework-robocop/issues/687 who mentioned this interesting project

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