List of map to cucumber steo

Question

I have the following step: User creats something using the following input:

|Key|value|
|Key|value|

Meaning duplicate values are being passed to step. So I thought I should use list<Map<String,String>> in the step definition but it is being passed as (key=key, value=value)

Could you please help me on how should I reserve this issue?

Do you want the user to be able to do something like this? , , — yassadi, Apr 11 '18 at 03:15
Yes, but key-value pair may be duplicate and I want cucumber to pass every entry to step definition. When i make the data table as List> then the data table is being stored as (key=key, value=value) not as (key=value, key=value), could you please help me here how should I store it? — user35253, Apr 11 '18 at 03:38
Is this your question? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1062960/map-implementation-with-duplicate-keys — yassadi, Apr 11 '18 at 03:59
I can do whatever written in the link above, but the problem is cucumber only converts the data table to Map, list where k and v should be Integer, String , Boolean or Float. — user35253, Apr 11 '18 at 04:12
you can try [gerkin using qaf](https://qmetry.github.io/qaf/latest/gherkin_client.html). Refer different [examples](https://github.com/qmetry/qaf/blob/master/test/src/com/qmetry/qaf/automation/impl/step/qaf/QAFTestStepImpl.java#L82) of step implementation and [exampe usage](https://github.com/qmetry/qaf/blob/master/test/resources/features/gherkin_datatable.feature) — user861594, Apr 14 '18 at 19:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 12 '18 at 07:15

Assuming following feature file

Feature: demo for a key,value data table
  Scenario: duplicate data for a scenario
    When some condition is true
    Then enter a valid data pair
        |Key    |value|
        |Key    |value|
        |SomeKey|SomeValue|

and you want to execute the scenario for all listed rows, regardless the duplicated row Key,value.

The step can be implemented using a DataTable parameter

public void enterAValidDataPair(DataTable dataTable) throws Exception {
    System.out.println("dataTable.raw().size() = " + dataTable.raw().size());
    for (List<String> row : dataTable.raw()) {
        System.out.printf("key: %-10s value: %-10s%n", row.get(0), row.get(1));
    }
}

if you run the scenario the method produces following output

dataTable.raw().size() = 3
key: Key        value: value     
key: Key        value: value     
key: SomeKey    value: SomeValue

List of map to cucumber steo

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