Extracting Cucumber Step name at runtime

Question

I am trying to find out if there is an option to figure out the cucumber step currently getting executed, I am trying to perform certain action depending on the step name.

Answer 1

You can implement a ConcurrentEventListener, setting it in the plugin section:

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(
...
plugin = {
   ...,
   "com.mycompany.myproduct.AcceptanceStepNameLogger"
}...

AcceptanceStepNameLogger example (in this case I only needed to log PickleStepTestStep steps, not hooks):

import cucumber.api.*;
import cucumber.api.event.*;

public class AcceptanceStepNameLogger implements ConcurrentEventListener {

    @Override
    public void setEventPublisher(EventPublisher publisher) {

        publisher.registerHandlerFor(TestStepStarted.class, new EventHandler() {
            @Override
            public void receive(TestStepStarted event) {
                if (event.testStep instanceof PickleStepTestStep) {
                    final PickleStepTestStep ev = (PickleStepTestStep) event.testStep;
                    final String args = StringUtils.join(ev.getDefinitionArgument().stream().map(Argument::getValue).toArray(), ",");
                    String testDescription = ev.getStepText() + " : " + ev.getStepLocation();
                    if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(args)) {
                        testDescription += (" : args = (" + args + ")");
                    }
                    System.out.println("STARTING STEP: " + testDescription);
                }
            }
        });

        publisher.registerHandlerFor(TestStepFinished.class, new EventHandler() {
            @Override
            public void receive(TestStepFinished event) {
                if (event.testStep instanceof PickleStepTestStep) {
                    PickleStepTestStep ev = (PickleStepTestStep) event.testStep;
                    final String testDescription = ev.getStepText() + " : " + ev.getStepLocation();
                    System.out.println("FINISHED STEP: " + testDescription);
                }
            }
        });

    }

}