rspec users - Apr 2009 - [Cucumber] any examples of navigating cucumber parse tree from external script

Hi folks,
I''m writing some scripts to integrate our cucumber features with
stories
stored in a wiki, and I''m hoping to use cucumber''s parser to
parse the
features rather than doing it manually.  (I don''t really care about the
feature contents much, just scenario titles and tags)

I''ve worked out how to parse the features:
      Cucumber.load_language(''en'')
      features = Cucumber::Ast::Features.new
      parser = Cucumber::Parser::FeatureParser.new

      feature_files = Dir["#{FEATURE_DIR}/**/*.feature"]

      feature_files.each do |f|
        puts "parsing feature file #{f}"
        features.add_feature(parser.parse_file(f))
      end

But now I''m digging in to the whole ast visitor thing, and
it''s getting
quite complex to *do* stuff with the features once I''ve parsed them.

I''m sure I can work this out myself, given time, but I was wondering if
there are any code examples out there to save me some of the time/effort?
Anyone else tried parsing features like this from outside Cucumber itself?

Thanks!

- Korny

-- 
Kornelis Sietsma  korny at my surname dot com
"Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part
that wonders what the part that isn''t thinking
isn''t thinking of"
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Hmm - on digging further, I might be better off writing a custom formatter
as described at
http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/custom-formatters, and just
invoking cucumber with --dry-run and my formatter...  Though as I want to
use the html formatter to format steps for insertion into the wiki,
I''ve
still got some work to do :)

- korny

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Korny Sietsma <korny at sietsma.com>
wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I''m writing some scripts to integrate our cucumber features with
stories
> stored in a wiki, and I''m hoping to use cucumber''s parser
to parse the
> features rather than doing it manually.  (I don''t really care
about the
> feature contents much, just scenario titles and tags)
>
> I''ve worked out how to parse the features:
>       Cucumber.load_language(''en'')
>       features = Cucumber::Ast::Features.new
>       parser = Cucumber::Parser::FeatureParser.new
>
>       feature_files = Dir["#{FEATURE_DIR}/**/*.feature"]
>
>       feature_files.each do |f|
>         puts "parsing feature file #{f}"
>         features.add_feature(parser.parse_file(f))
>       end
>
> But now I''m digging in to the whole ast visitor thing, and
it''s getting
> quite complex to *do* stuff with the features once I''ve parsed
them.
>
> I''m sure I can work this out myself, given time, but I was
wondering if
> there are any code examples out there to save me some of the time/effort?
> Anyone else tried parsing features like this from outside Cucumber itself?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Korny
>
> --
> Kornelis Sietsma  korny at my surname dot com
> "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part
> that wonders what the part that isn''t thinking
> isn''t thinking of"
>


-- 
Kornelis Sietsma  korny at my surname dot com
"Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part
that wonders what the part that isn''t thinking
isn''t thinking of"
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