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Easton Bornemeier
Easton Bornemeier

Reputation: 1936

How to distinguish logical or parameters in a cucumber step?

Let say I have the following step definition header for Ruby 2.3:

When (/^I update user group "([^"]*)" with (groups|users)?$/) do |group_name, type, params|

How do I use the "type" variable to distinguish between the case of using groups or users? What is the type of "type"?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 90

Answers (1)

developer_hatch
developer_hatch

Reputation: 16224

in cucumber all the parameters are String, so you must to convert them with reflexion to the type you want.

When Cucumber matches a Step against a pattern in a Step Definition, it passes the value of all the capture groups to the Step Definition's arguments.

Capture groups are strings (even when they match digits like \d+). For statically typed languages, Cucumber will automatically transform those strings into the appropriate type. For dynamically typed languages, no transformation happens by default, as there is no type information.

reference https://cucumber.io/docs/reference

Upvotes: 1

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