How to get all the cucumber scenario steps in before hook?

Question

I want to access all the cucumber scenario steps in @before hook. Is there a way to do this?

I have tried passing the cucumber scenario object in the before hook method but it only provides the basic info like scenario.getName(), scenario.getId(). What I require is something like getSteps() which give me the List<String> of all the steps of that particular scenario.

What I am looking for is something like this

    @Before("@dev")
public void testcase(Scenario scenario){

    for (Step a : scenario.getSteps()) {
        System.out.println("scenario step = " + a.getText());
    }
}

Basically I want the complete scenario information at the beginning of the test execution itself.

If I pass the argument of class cucumber.api.TestCase in the before method then I can access the getTestSteps() method but that leads to below exception.

cucumber.runtime.CucumberException: When a hook declares an argument it must be of type cucumber.api.Scenario. public void com.thermofisher.bid.spa.kingfisher.ui.steps.Hooks.poc(cucumber.api.TestCase)

Answer 1

Try something like this:

@Before
public void setUp(Scenario scenario) throws Exception{

    tags = (ArrayList<String>) scenario.getSourceTagNames();
    System.out.println("At Hooks: " + scenario.getId());
    Iterator ite = tags.iterator();

    while (ite.hasNext()) {

        String buffer = ite.next().toString();
        if (buffer.startsWith("<tagOfATestCase>")) {

            Field f = scenario.getClass().getDeclaredField("testCase");
            f.setAccessible(true);
            TestCase r = (TestCase) f.get(scenario);

            List<PickleStepTestStep> testSteps = r.getTestSteps().stream().filter(x -> x instanceof PickleStepTestStep)
                    .map(x -> (PickleStepTestStep) x).collect(Collectors.toList());

            for (PickleStepTestStep ts : testSteps) {

                System.out.println(ts.getStepText());//will print your test case steps

            }

        }

    }