let me know if/when you have further issues.
are you also developing extensions/plugins/harnesses?
I'd like you to stick around here, if you don't mind. I'm working with the Cucumber project to get support for e.g. Rule keyword in place as well as better support for the "wire protocol" in Cucumber, so pherkin and Cucumber ecosystem can start working together.
I would like that a lot. Thanks for the chance to be a part of this.
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ok. when I make more progress, I'll ask here for feedback and review, if you don't mind.
@DragosTrif: The main Gherkin language has a Rule keyword (which is mostly a way to group Scenarios which under a Rule are called Examples); are you looking to use those too? pherkin doesn't support them yet, but I want to use "their" parser and gherkin document model, so after that work has been done, it would be trivial (automatic, really) to support Rule. Before I can do that, there are several other things to consider though, like their completely different expectations around the execution model of feature files.
ok. I've updated their parser to run on Perl. It's released as Gherkin on CPAN.
but there are some other components missing to link our implementation to "their" parser.
@DragosTrif: hi! Yes. I've managed to get the release process for https://metacpan.org/pod/Gherkin and https://metacpan.org/pod/Cucumber::Messages kick-started again. The next hurdle is getting cucumber/common#768 resolved
It's making great progress, only missing thing is comments from the founder of the cucumber community (Aslak Hellesoy)
From there i can pick thing up further and get it implemented in a matter of weeks
@DragosTrif: hi. Was in the cucumber community meeting today and a way forward was devised on the issue referenced above
Albeit with Node.js
@pjlsergeant: I've actually made quite some progress on the cucumber side to support Perl and drive Perkins from their parser.
See the Gherkin and Cucumber namespaces on CPAN.
great work
Hope this will promote a little Test::BDD::Cucumber inside the Perl community: https://dev.to/dragostrif/test-web-apis-with-perl-and-cucumber-5fff
Nice! Thanks!
@fleetfootmike: hi. There is a way to specify certain scenarios to be excluded, yes. The functionality is called tags. However, it's not linked to environment variables.
See the examples in the synopsis:https://github.com/pherkin/test-bdd-cucumber-perl
hi! today one of the necessary prerequisites to move forward with Test::BDD::Cucumber (enhancing the Cucumber project's Perl parser), has been merged to the main branch there!
@pjlsergeant: We're closer than ever to switching to Cucumber's Perl parser: cucumber/common#1741
@pjlsergeant: hi! Finally Cucumber released a useable parser for our purposes, with a Perl implementation!
HI I have made a small improvement to pherkin to allow to pass attributes to a harness here is the pull request:pherkin/test-bdd-cucumber-perl#195
Please let me know if you need more changes for this
ok. thanks. there's one thing though: the eval() doesn't have error detection.
so, if the eval() fails, the arguments passed in will contain a single
undef.
added a suggestion in the PR.