Dynamic data in Cucumber tables

[Rahul Sharma]

Hi Guys,

It might have been asked many times before but I can't seem to find a good answer.

I am trying to do the following:

When I block a member on the site for "some reason" for 6 months

Then I should see the following record:

|Active|Time Limit|      Start Date            | End Date                  |

|true   | 6 months | 23-May-2012 12:37:29| 23-Nov-2012 12:37:29|

I am using to compare the above table with a similar table on the page.

Now , since the test blocks a member in the given step, the start date would be todays date. How can I replace the start date in the table above with something like Time.now('some_formatting') so that i can then match it against what's on the page?

I have seen some people suggesting using an extra step to assign current time to a an instance variable and then using it in the table. Is there any simpler way to do this?

[Josh Chisholm]

You could use natural language in your scenarios, then parse the date in your step definition with a gem like chronic:

https://github.com/mojombo/chronic

...so you can use terms like "today" or "in 6 months" as your table values.

Josh

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[Rahul Sharma]

On 23 May 2012 13:08, Josh Chisholm <joshuac...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 23 May 2012, at 11:41, Rahul Sharma wrote:

Hi Guys,

It might have been asked many times before but I can't seem to find a good answer.

I am trying to do the following:

When I block a member on the site for "some reason" for 6 months

Then I should see the following record:

|Active|Time Limit|      Start Date            | End Date                  |

|true   | 6 months | 23-May-2012 12:37:29| 23-Nov-2012 12:37:29|

I am using to compare the above table with a similar table on the page.

Now , since the test blocks a member in the given step, the start date would be todays date. How can I replace the start date in the table above with something like Time.now('some_formatting') so that i can then match it against what's on the page?

I have seen some people suggesting using an extra step to assign current time to a an instance variable and then using it in the table. Is there any simpler way to do this?

You could use natural language in your scenarios, then parse the date in your step definition with a gem like chronic:

https://github.com/mojombo/chronic

...so you can use terms like "today" or "in 6 months" as your table values.

Josh

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your response. I am already using Chronic and also Timecop in my project. The question is how can I use terms like Time.now or Chronic.parse('tomorrow') in the tables? 

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[Yogesh Aggarwal]

In addition how can we handle the same thing with cucumber-JVM. Does chronics exists for JVM also and also how to use this.

[Andrew Premdas]

On 23 May 2012 13:23, Rahul Sharma <rahulsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 23 May 2012 13:08, Josh Chisholm <joshuac...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 23 May 2012, at 11:41, Rahul Sharma wrote:

Hi Guys,

It might have been asked many times before but I can't seem to find a good answer.

I am trying to do the following:

When I block a member on the site for "some reason" for 6 months

Then I should see the following record:

|Active|Time Limit|      Start Date            | End Date                  |

|true   | 6 months | 23-May-2012 12:37:29| 23-Nov-2012 12:37:29|

I am using to compare the above table with a similar table on the page.

Now , since the test blocks a member in the given step, the start date would be todays date. How can I replace the start date in the table above with something like Time.now('some_formatting') so that i can then match it against what's on the page?

I have seen some people suggesting using an extra step to assign current time to a an instance variable and then using it in the table. Is there any simpler way to do this?

You could use natural language in your scenarios, then parse the date in your step definition with a gem like chronic:

https://github.com/mojombo/chronic

...so you can use terms like "today" or "in 6 months" as your table values.

Josh

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your response. I am already using Chronic and also Timecop in my project. The question is how can I use terms like Time.now or Chronic.parse('tomorrow') in the tables? 

And the answer was you can't but you can rephrase your feature so that the date parsing is done in your step definitions where you can use ruby code.

e.g. rewrite your feature as

When I block Fred 

Then I should see Fred is blocked

If you start with this you can add the extra details like time period later e.g.

When I block Fred for duplicate posting

Then I should see Fred is blocked for 3 months

etc. 

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[Chetan Parmar]

I am also looking for the same thing

[Chetan Parmar]

Hi

could anybody please provide me how to iterate this table in my statement

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Josh Chisholm <joshuac...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Chetan Parmar]

could anybody please reply me with the basic code

it's very urgent for me

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Josh Chisholm <joshuac...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Chetan Parmar]

Guys finally i got it

My feature is as following

@DataTableTest1
Scenario: Data Table Testr
     Given Data table test
     |test  |main1 |
     |test1 |main2 |

the following are respective code to read this values

 @When("^Data table test$")
    public void ILoggedInWith(DataTable table) throws Exception{
        try{
            System.out.println("**********************"+table.raw().size());
            System.out.println("**********************"+table.raw().get(0).get(0).toString());
            System.out.println("**********************"+table.raw().get(0).get(1).toString());
           
            System.out.println("**********************"+table.raw().get(1).get(0).toString());
            System.out.println("**********************"+table.raw().get(1).get(1).toString());
        }catch(Exception e){
            System.out.println("Login failed");
            throw e;
       }
It will read the data and in form of rows and columns

Thanks
chetan!

[Bill Ross]

Maybe you could just rewrite your step:

Then I should see blocked period extending from now to 6 months

Bill

[Rahul Sharma]

On 24 May 2012 16:47, Bill Ross <ro...@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Maybe you could just rewrite your step:

 Then I should see blocked period extending from now to 6 months

Bill

P.S. I moved your response inline.

Well, I have managed to solve it now. In my case, I was just matching a table from my scenario against a table on the page in my application that had dates as one of the columns in the table. So I would't want to just write a new step to just get the dates matched. I have done it like this(This might not be the greatest of ways but for an odd scenario I compromised)

Then I should see the following record:
 |Active|Time Limit|      Start Date            | End Date  |

 |true   | 6 months | DATE_TODAY| DATE_AFTER_SIX_MONTHS|

My step def looks like this:

DATE_TODAY = Chronic.parse('something')

DATE_AFTER_SIX_MONTHS = Chronic.parse('something'')

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