In Cucumber, is it possible to programmatically get the current step being executed?

Question

Scenario: As a user, I want to login to the system
Given I am on my website
When I enter valid credentials
Then I am taken to the home page

The sce

Answer 1

Here's an update to handle the framework changes. The "testCase" field is hidden under the "delegate". I got this working with io.cucumber.java version 5.7.0

public String getStepText(io.cucumber.java.Scenario scenario){      
    String  currentStepDescr = null;

    //value currentStepDefIndex is tracked in the another class
    int currentStepDefIndex = OtherClass.getStepIndex();

    Field f = scenario.getClass().getDeclaredField("delegate");
    f.setAccessible(true);
    TestCaseState tcs = (TestCaseState) f.get(scenario);

    Field f2 = tcs.getClass().getDeclaredField("testCase");
    f2.setAccessible(true);
    TestCase r = (TestCase) f2.get(tcs);

        List stepDefs = r.getTestSteps()
                .stream()
                .filter(x -> x instanceof PickleStepTestStep)
                .map(x -> (PickleStepTestStep) x)
                .collect(Collectors.toList());


        PickleStepTestStep currentStepDef = stepDefs
                .get(currentStepDefIndex);
        currentStepDescr = currentStepDef.getStep().getText();
        currentStepDefIndex += 1;
        OtherClass.setStepIndex(currentStepDefIndex);
         return currentStepDescr ;
       }

Below are the dependencies in my pom.xml

        
            io.cucumber
            cucumber-core
            5.7.0
        


        
        
            io.cucumber
            cucumber-testng
            5.7.0
        


        
        
            io.cucumber
            cucumber-java
            5.7.0
        


        
        
            io.cucumber
            cucumber-jvm-deps
            1.0.6
            provided