Scenario Outline: parameters are converted to string when the feature is uploaded to cucumberStudio

[julien-le-foll]

Hello,

Given the following feature file:

Feature: numeric arguments are lost

  Scenario Outline: show loss of numeric types
    Given a price of <price>
    And the price parameter is an int in step implementation
    When the scenario is uploaded to cucumberStudio
    Then the price parameter becomes a string

    Examples:
    | price |
    | 30 |
    | 40 |

And a java step definition such as:

@Given("a price of {int}")
public void a_price_of(Integer int1) {
    // 
}

When the feature file is uploaded to cucumberStudio

And the feature file is generated for a given test run

Then the step become "Given a price of "<price>"" (additional quotes around the parameter)

And cucumber expect this definition:

@Given("a price of {String}")
public void a_price_of(String price) {
//
}

How to keep numeric types for step parameters?

Note the feature file generated by hiptest-publisher is:

Feature: numeric arguments are lost


  Scenario Outline: show loss of numeric types (<hiptest-uid>)
    Given a price of "<price>"
    And the price parameter is an int in step implementation
    When the scenario is uploaded to cucumberStudio
    Then the price parameter becomes a string

    Examples:
      | price | hiptest-uid |
      | 30 | uid:61e34ec9-130f-49de-b8ab-8a007c11d1ce |
      | 40 | uid:ecc15e25-fc84-48cc-a79c-1092df7d44ce |

[TanyaYatskovska]

Hi @julien-le-foll,

Thanks for submitting your question to the CucumberStudio community. I was told that you are already working with the R&D team on this topic. Please continue working with them and share the solution with us. 

[julien-le-foll]

Hello,

R&D replied me that they won't be able to fix it quickly.

For the time being here the workaround that I suggested to our dev team:

1/ use string parameter in feature files such as:

Feature: numeric arguments are lost

  Scenario Outline: show loss of numeric types
    Given a price of "<price>"
    And the price parameter is an int in step implementation
    When the scenario is uploaded to cucumberStudio
    Then the price parameter becomes a string

    Examples:
    | price |
    | 30 |
    | 40 |

2/ Parse strings in step's implementation:

@Given("a price of {string}")
    public void a_price_of(String sInt1) {
        int int1 = Integer.parseInt(sInt1);
        //....
    }

[julien-le-foll · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Finally your R&D show me a better solution:

• In CucumberStudio set 0 as default value for numeric parameter (add = 0)
• and the following step implementation can be used:

@Given("a price of "(.*)"$")
    public void a_price_of(double price) {
        //....
    }

The deal is that numeric types can't be used in annotations but it is acceptable

[TanyaYatskovska]

It's great to hear that the solution was found!