Formatting Cucumber Feature file

Question

I extensively use Data tables in cucumber feature file. Data Tables are mostly dump of Database table which i export in pipe delimted format and not properly aligned.

Is there any option in Cucumber-JVM that will auto align DataTables ?

Solution 1

If you're using IntelliJ go to Code>Reformat code

Solution 2

As Joe says, the --autoformat feature isn't available any more.

I found that cucumber --dry-run --format pretty --quiet --no-color pretty much gives you what you want, although you'd have to do some string-wrangling to write back to the files.

Solution 3

I created this with a similar problem in mind. Paste your code into the editor, hit Ctrl+Enter and your table pipes will be aligned. Tidy Gherkin Chrome App

Solution 4

If you're using IntelliJ, there is also a good plugin called Pipe Table Formatter!

:)

Solution 5

cucumber --autoformat . -t @myuglytests


cucumber -help

   -a, --autoformat DIR             Reformats (pretty prints) feature files and write them to DIRECTORY.
                                    Be careful if you choose to overwrite the originals.
                                    Implies --dry-run --format pretty.

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Comments

[Joe]

It's worth pointing out that this option has been removed in Cucumber 2.0. That issue references the "Gherkin CLI" which has a reformat command, but that CLI was removed in v2.2.8. So it would appear that there is no longer any way to achieve this?