Cucumber Exception Failed to create directory

Question

When I run MainRunner class in response I get error message in console like below. I did set permissions for folder.

Here is my step class:

package CucumberFramework.steps;

import cucumber.api.java.en.Given;

import cucumber.api.java.en.Then;

import cucumber.api.java.en.When;



public class LoginSteps {

@Given("^User navigate to stackoverflow webstie$")

public void user_navigate_to_stackoverflow_webstie() throws Throwable {

   System.out.println("user_navigate_to_stackoverflow_webstie");

}



@Given("^User clicks on the login button$")

public void user_clicks_on_the_login_button() throws Throwable {

    System.out.println("user_clicks_on_the_login_button");

}



@Given("^User enters valid username$")

public void user_enters_valid_username() throws Throwable {

System.out.println("user_enters_valid_username");

}



@Given("^User enters valid password$")

public void user_enters_valid_password() throws Throwable {

System.out.println("user_enters_valid_password");

}

@When("^User clicks again on the login button$")

public void user_clicks_again_on_the_login_button() throws Throwable {

System.out.println("user_clicks_again_on_the_login_button");

}



@Then("^User should be taken to the sucsfull login page$")

public void user_should_be_taken_to_the_sucsfull_login_page() throws Throwable {

System.out.println("user_should_be_taken_to_the_sucsfull_login_page");

}

@Given("^User navigate to stackoverflow webstie(\\d+)$")

public void user_navigate_to_stackoverflow_webstie2(int arg1) throws Throwable {

System.out.println("user_navigate_to_stackoverflow_webstie2");

}



@Given("^User clicks on the login button(\\d+)$")

public void user_clicks_on_the_login_button2(int arg1) throws Throwable {

System.out.println("user_clicks_on_the_login_button2");

}



@Given("^User enters valid username(\\d+)$")

public void user_enters_valid_username2(int arg1) throws Throwable {

System.out.println("user_enters_valid_username2");

}



@Given("^User enters valid password(\\d+)$")

public void user_enters_valid_password2(int arg1) throws Throwable {

System.out.println("user_enters_valid_password2");

}



@When("^User clicks again on the login button(\\d+)$")

public void user_clicks_again_on_the_login_button2(int arg1) throws Throwable {

System.out.println("user_clicks_again_on_the_login_button2");

}



@Then("^User should be taken to the sucsfull login page(\\d+)$")

public void user_should_be_taken_to_the_sucsfull_login_page2(int arg1) throws Throwable {

System.out.println("user_should_be_taken_to_the_sucsfull_login_page2");

}

}

I have also looked at permissions for the target folder and have ensured permissions is granted for all users. I'm on Windows 10 Pro. I also try to run Eclipse in administrator mode that didn't help as well.

This is my Pom.xml https://pastebin.com/ad2qyGRH

I have also tried the following:

running: Eclipse menu Project > Clean...

But no joy. Does anyone know what could be causing this please?

Kind regards

Answer 1

From what I have found, it seems that the plugin object is trying to create 2 directories called "cucumber" when what you want is for the object to create a directory and a file called cucumber. This is what your object looks like:

plugin = {
    "pretty", 
    "html:target/cucumber", //this is telling cucumber to create a folder called cucumber
    "json:target/cucumber", //this is also telling cucumber to create a folder called cucumber 
                            //even though you just need a file called cucumber.json
    "com.cucumber.listener.ExtentCucumberFormatter: target/report.html" 
    //there is an unnecessary white space before "target" that is causing another issue
}

---

What you are trying to do is:

plugin = {
    "pretty", 
    "html:target/cucumber", //create a folder called cucumber
    "json:target/cucumber.json", 
    //Notice the corresponding file extension (.json) telling cucumber to create a file
    "com.cucumber.listener.ExtentCucumberFormatter:target/report.html"
    //Notice I remove the white space at :target/report.html
}

Now the code is creating one folder called cucumber (this will hold a basic webpage that will display test results) and a file called cucumber.json (this will be the same test results but in json format)

Don't forget to remove that white space! That white space then creates a separate folder called " target" (starting with a blank space) and that puts the report.html file in there instead of with the rest of the reporting artifacts.

Hope this helps!