[cucumber-jvm] CucumberOptions annotation and cucumber.options (runtime) system property: precedence

[Christian]

Hi!

If I've set several options via the annotation, e.g.

@CucumberOptions(

format = { "pretty", "html:target/cucumber", "json:target/cucumber.json" }, 

tags = "@all", 

features = "target/test-classes/features")

If I then set the runtime option to

-Dcucumber.options="src/test/resources/features/abc --tags ~@xyz"

What will happen; what will the effective options look like?

format = { "pretty", "html:target/cucumber", "json:target/cucumber.json" }, 

tags = "~@xyz", 

features = "src/test/resources/features/abc"

or just

tags = "~@xyz", 

features = "src/test/resources/features/abc"

In other words: if I use runtime options, will Cucumber only use those, or will it also use the annotation options that aren't overridden by the runtime options?

Kind regards,

Christian

[Björn Rasmusson]

Christian wrote:

Hi!

If I've set several options via the annotation, e.g.

@CucumberOptions(

format = { "pretty", "html:target/cucumber", "json:target/cucumber.json" }, 

tags = "@all", 

features = "target/test-classes/features")

If I then set the runtime option to

-Dcucumber.options="src/test/resources/features/abc --tags ~@xyz"

What will happen; what will the effective options look like?

format = { "pretty", "html:target/cucumber", "json:target/cucumber.json" }, 

tags = "~@xyz", 

features = "src/test/resources/features/abc"

Yes,

 

Cucumber-JVM will use the options from @CucumberOptions that aren't overridden by the -Dcucumber.options statement.

 

Regards

Björn

[Christian]

On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 3:20:53 PM UTC+1, Björn Rasmusson wrote:

Christian wrote:

If I've set several options via the annotation, e.g.

@CucumberOptions(

format = { "pretty", "html:target/cucumber", "json:target/cucumber.json" }, 

tags = "@all", 

features = "target/test-classes/features")

If I then set the runtime option to

-Dcucumber.options="src/test/resources/features/abc --tags ~@xyz"

What will happen; what will the effective options look like?

format = { "pretty", "html:target/cucumber", "json:target/cucumber.json" }, 

tags = "~@xyz", 

features = "src/test/resources/features/abc"

Yes,

 

Cucumber-JVM will use the options from @CucumberOptions that aren't overridden by the -Dcucumber.options statement.

Thanks! :) 

[Christian]

On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 3:20:53 PM UTC+1, Björn Rasmusson wrote:

Christian wrote:

Hi!

If I've set several options via the annotation, e.g.

@CucumberOptions(

format = { "pretty", "html:target/cucumber", "json:target/cucumber.json" }, 

tags = "@all", 

features = "target/test-classes/features")

If I then set the runtime option to

-Dcucumber.options="src/test/resources/features/abc --tags ~@xyz"

What will happen; what will the effective options look like?

format = { "pretty", "html:target/cucumber", "json:target/cucumber.json" }, 

tags = "~@xyz", 

features = "src/test/resources/features/abc"

Yes,

 

Cucumber-JVM will use the options from @CucumberOptions that aren't overridden by the -Dcucumber.options statement.

 

For anyone stumbling across this in the future: the --format parameter behaves differently; it doesn't override the annotation's value(s), but instead adds more formats: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cukes/8bZd6dWnSwc/qqynbO65VXIJ

Trying to override one will result in an error message...