Cucumber-jvm: cucumber-spring no documentation

[jakub-bochenski]

I don't require some book sized story, but seriously, at least some basic info?
What versions of spring are supported?
What does it even do? "Share instances across step definitons" - cool, but how exactly? Is context created per feature or per scenario? I see there are also so txn hooks, anything more?
How to go about enabling it at all?
How to enable annotation-based config?

The best thing I could find is https://zsoltfabok.com/blog/2012/01/cucumber-jvm-di/ but it's not very clear, plus involves quite a few DIY workarounds.

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[jakub-bochenski]

Sorry no docs yet, but the code is on GitHub.

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[jakub-bochenski]

Let's keep it open until it's 4yo!

[mlvandijk]

Blogged: https://medium.com/@mlvandijk/managing-state-in-cucumber-jvm-using-spring-a795e9a1dd18 and am working on a README off this.

[jakub-bochenski]

@mlvandijk nice, what I'm missing is a scope reference. E.g. I recall for Guice you had to use @ScenarioScoped to have a bean live for the duration of the scenario, by default it would create a new instance per each step (which can also be useful). An explicit text about how prototype and singleton scopes are going to behave would be useful.

[jakub-bochenski]

Since my team already uses Spring in our projects, we’ve opted to use Spring with Cucumber.

@mlvandijk FYI I've been using different DI frameworks for Cucumber glue with good result. You could even argue it's a nice exercise in separation preventing you from accidentally mixing the code (e.g. HK2 for application and Guice for Cuccumber)

[mlvandijk]

@jakub-bochenski The @Scope("cucumber-glue") is in there (unless I'm not understanding your comment correctly?). What's still missing is some more info on using @ContextConfiguration("classpath:cucumber.xml") to mark the StepDefs, or @SpringBootTest(classes = TestConfig.class) if you're using SpringBoot (like we are at our latest project.

[jakub-bochenski]

@mlvandijk I just mean you never mention one can also use the standard scopes with cucumber, e.g.:

• prototype should create a new instance each time preventing any kind of state sharing (which can also be useful);
• singleton should only create once instance, regardless of scenario boundaries (useful for expensive objects).
  I'm making the above up from memory as I haven't used cucumber-spring for a while.

[mlvandijk]

@jakub-bochenski Thnx. I'll have to create some example projects to figure those out and document accordingly :)

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