Cucumber options annotation

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JustDanyul picture JustDanyul · Jul 5, 2013 · Viewed 52.4k times · Source

The cucumber-jvm javadocs states that purpose of the glue element is to specify the location of the stepdefinitions and hooks. However, this doesn't seem to work for me. Lets say I have my features in directory a, and my step definitions in directory b. Then,

@Cucumber.Options(
        features= "directory_a", 
            glue="directory_b"
)

will load my feature files from directory_a, but, it doesn't load my step definitions from directly_b. However, if I use

@Cucumber.Options(
        features= {"directory_a", "directory_b"}
)

then my features from directory_a is loaded, and my step definitions from directory_b are also picked up. Which is exactly what I want, however, I don't understand why the former isn't working? I'm guessing it has something to do with it expecting the URI to be formatted differently (maybe i need to prepend a classpath:// or something like that), but I can't find any information on this in the documentation.

Answer

Dmitry Sharkov picture Dmitry Sharkov · Sep 11, 2013

I have successfully used something like:

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@Cucumber.Options(
    //this code will only look into "features/" folder for features
    features={"classpath:features/"},
    glue = { "com.mycompany.cucumber.stepdefinitions", "com.mycompany.cucumber.hooks" },
    format = { "com.mycompany.cucumber.formatter.RuntimeInfoCatcher", "json:target/cucumber.json" },
    tags = { "@working" }
    )
public class CucumberStarterIT {
}

Looking at the doc at http://cukes.info/api/cucumber/jvm/javadoc/cucumber/api/junit/Cucumber.Options.html it specifies the options to be of type String[] so perhaps it's not expected to work "well" if you don't give it a single-value list. Try glue={"directory_b"} and see what happens for you.

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