Generic annotation for @Given @When @Then @And

[ntthaibk]

🤔 What's the problem you're trying to solve?

When I create the journey scenario. I use the * syntax in .feature file instead of normal Given When Then And. But then in those step's step definition, the @given or @when @then @and annotation is not able to differentiate the Journey step and normal integration test steps.

✨ What's your proposed solution?

I think another alias annotation for @StepDefinitionAnnotation is gonna be a good solution, it could be named either @Steps or @Journey

⛏ Have you considered any alternatives or workarounds?

For now I use @and as annotation for journey step

📚 Any additional context?

I don't know if we need to take into consideration for other framework that build on top of cucumber, because when I'm using Serenity, I think they already use @step for another purpose

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[mpkorstanje]

I'd be happy to take a pull request that adds this.

To do this it would probably be best to change the GenerateI18n.java so that in addition to generating a localized annotation for every io.cucumber.java.<lang> it also generates a @Step annotation in the io.cucumber.java package.

[ntthaibk]

hi @mpkorstanje, so I checked the Generatel18n.java today, and found out that actually I need to modify the Gherkin Dialect in order to add the @Step for auto generation and I saw the repo already archived, can I send the MR for the archived repo there, thanks

[mpkorstanje]

You can find the code for Gherkin in cucumber/gherkin. What made you believe it was cucumber/gherkin-java?

[ntthaibk]

ahh I see, I thought it was gherkin-java after a google search with the keyword GherkinDialect.java

[mpkorstanje]

Btw, updating languages.json is not the right way to go. It will also make Step a valid keyword to use in Gherkin.

I don't think you'd have to change languages.json anyway . There already is the * keyword. However isn't rendered as an annotation because it is an invalid class name and filtered out. You could replace it with something that is valid.

cucumber-jvm/cucumber-java/src/codegen/java/GenerateI18n.java

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	private void writeKeyWordAnnotations(GherkinDialect dialect) {
	dialect.getStepKeywords().stream()
	.filter(it -> !it.contains(String.valueOf('*')))
	.filter(it -> !it.matches("^\\d.*"))
	.distinct()