Karate: I got (Exception in thread "main" java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character '?' near index 6)

[behzadian]

I'm new to karate and cucumber.
I wrote below test:

Feature: ثبت نام کاربر با ایمیل تکراری

  Scenario: در صورتی‌که ایمیل، تکراری باشد، باید کد وضعیت ۴۰۰، وضعیت پارامترهای اشتباه، خطای ورودی ایمیل تکراری را بدهد


    Given url karate.get('urlBase') +  "user/registerUser"
    And request
"""
  {
    "username" :#(karate.get('defaultUsername')),
    "mobile":#(karate.get('defaultMobile')),
    "email":#(karate.get('defaultEmail')),
    "nationalCode":#(karate.get('defaultNationalID')),
    "firstName":#(karate.get('defaultFirstName')),
    "middleName":#(karate.get('defaultMiddleName')),
    "lastname":#(karate.get('defaultLastName')),
    "password":#(karate.get('defaultPassword'))
  }
"""
    When method post
    Then status 200
    And match response ==
  """
  {
   "status":0,
   "message":#(karate.get('status0persianMessage'))
  }
"""

    Given url karate.get('urlBase') +  "user/registerUser"
    And request
"""
  {
    "username":#(karate.get('defaultUsername')),
    "mobile":#(karate.get('defaultMobile')),
    "email":#(karate.get('defaultEmail')),
    "nationalCode":#(karate.get('defaultNationalID')),
    "firstName":#(karate.get('defaultFirstName')),
    "middleName":#(karate.get('defaultMiddleName')),
    "lastname":#(karate.get('defaultLastName')),
    "password":#(karate.get('defaultPassword'))
  }
"""
    When method post

    Then status 200
    And match response ==
    """
    {
        "status": 0
    }
    """

but I got below error:

`"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\bin\java" "-javaagent:C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2\lib\coverage-agent.jar=C:\Users\Homayoun\AppData\Local\Temp\coverage21839args" -Dorg.jetbrains.run.directory=C:\Users\Homayoun\Documents\Projects\HamrahDoctor\HamrahDoctorApiTest\api\src\res "-javaagent:C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2\lib\idea_rt.jar=63829:C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2\bin" -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\charsets.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\deploy.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\ext\access-bridge-32.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\ext\cldrdata.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\ext\dnsns.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\ext\jaccess.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\ext\jfxrt.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\ext\localedata.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\ext\nashorn.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\ext\sunec.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\ext\sunjce_provider.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\ext\sunmscapi.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\ext\sunpkcs11.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\ext\zipfs.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\javaws.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\jce.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\jfr.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\jfxswt.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\jsse.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\management-agent.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\plugin.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\resources.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib\rt.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun\Documents\Projects\HamrahDoctor\HamrahDoctorApiTest\api\target\test-classes;C:\Users\Homayoun\Documents\Projects\HamrahDoctor\HamrahDoctorApiTest\api\target\classes;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\com\intuit\karate\karate-junit4\0.6.0.9\karate-junit4-0.6.0.9.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\com\intuit\karate\karate-core\0.6.0.9\karate-core-0.6.0.9.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\com\jayway\jsonpath\json-path\2.1.0\json-path-2.1.0.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\net\minidev\json-smart\2.2\json-smart-2.2.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\net\minidev\accessors-smart\1.1\accessors-smart-1.1.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\org\ow2\asm\asm\5.0.3\asm-5.0.3.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\info\cukes\cucumber-java\1.2.5\cucumber-java-1.2.5.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\org\yaml\snakeyaml\1.18\snakeyaml-1.18.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\info\cukes\cucumber-junit\1.2.5\cucumber-junit-1.2.5.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\info\cukes\cucumber-core\1.2.5\cucumber-core-1.2.5.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\info\cukes\cucumber-html\0.2.3\cucumber-html-0.2.3.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\info\cukes\cucumber-jvm-deps\1.0.5\cucumber-jvm-deps-1.0.5.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\info\cukes\gherkin\2.12.2\gherkin-2.12.2.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\junit\junit\4.12\junit-4.12.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\org\hamcrest\hamcrest-core\1.3\hamcrest-core-1.3.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\ch\qos\logback\logback-classic\1.2.3\logback-classic-1.2.3.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\ch\qos\logback\logback-core\1.2.3\logback-core-1.2.3.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\org\slf4j\slf4j-api\1.7.25\slf4j-api-1.7.25.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\com\intuit\karate\karate-apache\0.6.0\karate-apache-0.6.0.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\org\apache\httpcomponents\httpclient\4.5.3\httpclient-4.5.3.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\org\apache\httpcomponents\httpcore\4.4.6\httpcore-4.4.6.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\commons-codec\commons-codec\1.9\commons-codec-1.9.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\org\apache\httpcomponents\httpmime\4.5.3\httpmime-4.5.3.jar;C:\Users\Homayoun.m2\repository\org\slf4j\jcl-over-slf4j\1.7.25\jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.25.jar;C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2\plugins\cucumber-java\lib\cucumber-jvm-formatter.jar" cucumber.api.cli.Main --plugin org.jetbrains.plugins.cucumber.java.run.CucumberJvmSMFormatter --monochrome --name "^در صورتی\‌که ایمیل\، تکراری باشد\، باید کد وضعیت ۴۰۰\، وضعیت پارامترهای اشتباه\، خطای ورودی ایمیل تکراری را بدهد$" --glue com.intuit.karate C:/Users/Homayoun/Documents/Projects/HamrahDoctor/HamrahDoctorApiTest/api/src/res/register.user.post.duplicate.email.feature
Testing started at 9:04 AM ...
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include patterns:
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Exception in thread "main" java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character '?' near index 6
^?? ???????? ?????? ?????? ????? ???? ?? ????? ???? ????? ?????????? ??????? ???? ????? ????? ?????? ?? ????$
^
at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Pattern.java:1955)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Pattern.java:2123)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Pattern.java:1996)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1696)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.(Pattern.java:1351)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1028)
at cucumber.runtime.RuntimeOptions.parse(RuntimeOptions.java:140)
at cucumber.runtime.RuntimeOptions.(RuntimeOptions.java:85)
at cucumber.runtime.RuntimeOptions.(RuntimeOptions.java:78)
at cucumber.runtime.RuntimeOptions.(RuntimeOptions.java:70)
at cucumber.api.cli.Main.run(Main.java:31)
at cucumber.api.cli.Main.main(Main.java:18)

Process finished with exit code 1
`

[ptrthomas]

can you add a file.encoding config to your maven pom.xml hopefully it handles the encoding better:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.10</version>
    <configuration>
        <argLine>-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</argLine>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

by the way you don't need to use karate.getin embedded expressions, this should work:

And request
"""
  {
    "username" :#(defaultUsername),
    "mobile":#(defaultMobile)
  }
"""

[ptrthomas]

even this is fine

Given url urlBase + 'user/registerUser'

[ptrthomas]

hey I read the stack trace more carefully - this is what is causing the problem:

cucumber.api.cli.Main --plugin org.jetbrains.plugins.cucumber.java.run.CucumberJvmSMFormatter --monochrome --name "^در صورتی\‌که ایمیل\، تکراری باشد\، باید کد وضعیت ۴۰۰\، وضعیت پارامترهای اشتباه\، خطای ورودی ایمیل تکراری را بدهد$" --glue com.intuit.karate 

try this:

• in IntelliJ - run the whole feature, not the selected scenario
• or change the name of the scenario to english (which you may not want)
• or use a JUnit runner with the RunWith(Karate.class) annotation like mentioned in the documentation: https://github.com/intuit/karate#running-with-junit

I'm closing this - because this is not an issue with Karate, it is the combination of Cucumber, your environment and IntelliJ

[behzadian]

thanks, It seems if I remove all non-English chars, everything will be fine
But I if I add plug-in configuration, does not work, changing encoding of file and project doesn't help also
Another thing is, problem has been occurred while I changing json values, so I thought, problem is from json values . (Currently I have tests with Persian feature and scenario without error!

[behzadian]

I also thanks for shortcut, it helped me a lot
You have very good but very large documentation :)

[ptrthomas]

ok thanks for the update. glad to know things are working. ignore the file.encoding, it is not needed for you.

yes people tell me the documentation is too much :) but there is an interesting advantage, you can do CTRL F and find anything you want very easily !