rspec users - Apr 2009 - [Cucumber] How can I pass an XML block as a parameter?

We''re trying to verify XML REST API''s and would like to write
Cucumber
specs of the following type:

  Scenario: Create a phrase
    Given I have an authenticated session for user with login "steve"
    When I send a POST to /phrases with parameters: locale=ca and post
body
      "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
        <phrase>
            <uuid>060e985b-0307-4c8f-b43f-c16f0e45196d</uuid>
            <text>Fake Catalan Source</text>
            <source_language>ca</source_language>
        </phrase>"
    Then I get a 201 (created) status result
    And I a phrase object with UUID=060e985b-0307-4c8f-b43f-c16f0e45196d
exists on the server

In other words, we''re trying to pass a multi-line value to the parser.
We''ve found this reference:
https://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16211/tickets/4-add-multiline-step-support
It''s marked as resolved, but we can''t seem to get it to work
with the
"..." syntax.

The parser statement is:

When /^I send a (GET|POST|PUT|DELETE) to ([\/\w]+)(?: with parameters:
)?(.*) and post body (.*)$/m do |method, path, params, body|
  send(method.downcase.to_sym, path, params)
end

The error:

$ cucumber features/phrases_xml.feature -n
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.2.3/bin/../lib/cucumber/parser/treetop_ext.rb:42:in
`parse_or_fail'': features/phrases_xml.feature:9:6: Parse error,
expected
one of "|", "\n", "\r",
"\"\"\"", "#", "Given",
"When", "Then", "And",
"But", "@", "Scenario", "Scenario
Outline".
(Cucumber::Parser::SyntaxError)
  from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.2.3/bin/../lib/cucumber/parser/treetop_ext.rb:28:in
`parse_file''
  from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.2.3/bin/../lib/cucumber/parser/treetop_ext.rb:33:in
`open''
  from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.2.3/bin/../lib/cucumber/parser/treetop_ext.rb:33:in
`parse_file''
  from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.2.3/bin/../lib/cucumber/cli/main.rb:55:in
`load_plain_text_features''
  from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.2.3/bin/../lib/cucumber/cli/main.rb:54:in
`each''
  from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.2.3/bin/../lib/cucumber/cli/main.rb:54:in
`load_plain_text_features''
  from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.2.3/bin/../lib/cucumber/cli/main.rb:37:in
`execute!''
  from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.2.3/bin/../lib/cucumber/cli/main.rb:20:in
`execute''
  from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.2.3/bin/cucumber:6
  from /usr/bin/cucumber:19:in `load''
  from /usr/bin/cucumber:19
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Copy &  paste mistake: We did escape the quotes inside the XML stanza, 
result is the same.
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On Apr 14, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Wolfram Arnold wrote:
> We''re trying to verify XML REST API''s and would like to
write Cucumber
> specs of the following type:
>
>  Scenario: Create a phrase
>    Given I have an authenticated session for user with login
"steve"
>    When I send a POST to /phrases with parameters: locale=ca and post
> body
>      "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>        <phrase>
>            <uuid>060e985b-0307-4c8f-b43f-c16f0e45196d</uuid>
>            <text>Fake Catalan Source</text>
>            <source_language>ca</source_language>
>        </phrase>"
>    Then I get a 201 (created) status result
>    And I a phrase object with UUID=060e985b-0307-4c8f-b43f- 
> c16f0e45196d
> exists on the server
>
> In other words, we''re trying to pass a multi-line value to the
parser.
Have you tried the pystring syntax?

Given I want to have multiple lines
"""
I can pass them
in with three quotes...
"""


-Ben

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Ben Mabey <ben at benmabey.com>
wrote:
>
> Have you tried the pystring syntax?
>
> Given I want to have multiple lines
> """
> I can pass them
> in with three quotes...
> """
How does that parse into a step definition?  Would it be:

Given /^I want to have multiple lines\n(.*)$/m do |text|

...or would it be something else?  Is the newline character necessary?
 Are the quotes included?  And does this imply that multiline text
must always be separated from from steps in lines of its own?

Sorry if I''m asking dumb questions, but I was trying to look this up a
few weeks ago myself to represent some example Markdown data, and
eventually gave up.  This isn''t documented anywhere that I could find.
 I''ve also never heard of pystring syntax -- I just tried to Google
that too, but all I got were references to Java libraries and no
simple syntax reference.


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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Stephen Eley <sfeley at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Ben Mabey <ben at benmabey.com>
wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried the pystring syntax?
>>
>> Given I want to have multiple lines
>> """
>> I can pass them
>> in with three quotes...
>> """
>
> How does that parse into a step definition? ?Would it be:
>
> Given /^I want to have multiple lines\n(.*)$/m do |text|
    Given /^I want to have multiple lines$/m do |text|

Cucumber parses it and appends it to the blocks argument list---so it
will always be the last argument. e.g.

    Given /^(\w+) want to have multiple lines$/m do |who, text|

It is a cucumber PyString object, but you can treat it like a normal string.
>
> ...or would it be something else? ?Is the newline character necessary?
> ?Are the quotes included? ?And does this imply that multiline text
> must always be separated from from steps in lines of its own?
>
> Sorry if I''m asking dumb questions, but I was trying to look this
up a
> few weeks ago myself to represent some example Markdown data, and
> eventually gave up. ?This isn''t documented anywhere that I could
find.
> ?I''ve also never heard of pystring syntax -- I just tried to
Google
> that too, but all I got were references to Java libraries and no
> simple syntax reference.
>
>
> --
> Have Fun,
> ? Steve Eley (sfeley at gmail.com)
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Stephen Eley <sfeley at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Sorry if I''m asking dumb questions, but I was trying to look this
up a
> few weeks ago myself to represent some example Markdown data, and
> eventually gave up. ?This isn''t documented anywhere that I could
find.
> ?I''ve also never heard of pystring syntax -- I just tried to
Google
> that too, but all I got were references to Java libraries and no
> simple syntax reference.
All right, never mind.  Having been given enough clues that the
feature exists and what it generally might look like, I prowled
through Cucumber''s specs and examples until I got a clearer picture.
Then, to keep my ''There ain''t no documentation!''
whining privileges, I
went and added what I learned to the wiki:

http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/multiline-step-arguments

I''d call it my minor good deed for the day, but really I was using it
to procrastinate on my podcasting work for another half hour, so
overall it was morally neutral.


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Stephen Eley wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Stephen Eley <sfeley at gmail.com>
wrote:
>   
>> Sorry if I''m asking dumb questions, but I was trying to look
this up a
>> few weeks ago myself to represent some example Markdown data, and
>> eventually gave up.  This isn''t documented anywhere that I
could find.
>>  I''ve also never heard of pystring syntax -- I just tried to
Google
>> that too, but all I got were references to Java libraries and no
>> simple syntax reference.
>>     
>
> All right, never mind.  Having been given enough clues that the
> feature exists and what it generally might look like, I prowled
> through Cucumber''s specs and examples until I got a clearer
picture.
> Then, to keep my ''There ain''t no documentation!''
whining privileges, I
> went and added what I learned to the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/multiline-step-arguments
>
> I''d call it my minor good deed for the day, but really I was using
it
> to procrastinate on my podcasting work for another half hour, so
> overall it was morally neutral.
>
>
>   
lol.. Sorry for not explaining the syntax better... What you wrote on 
the wiki is great and doesn''t really need further explanation by Ben 
Mabey or anyone else IMO. ;)

I''ll go ahead and elaborate on it though.  Thanks for adding the page.

-Ben

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Stephen Eley <sfeley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry if I''m asking dumb questions, but I was trying to look
this
>> up a
>> few weeks ago myself to represent some example Markdown data, and
>> eventually gave up.  This isn''t documented anywhere that I
could
>> find.
>>  I''ve also never heard of pystring syntax -- I just tried to
Google
>> that too, but all I got were references to Java libraries and no
>> simple syntax reference.
>
> All right, never mind.  Having been given enough clues that the
> feature exists and what it generally might look like, I prowled
> through Cucumber''s specs and examples until I got a clearer
picture.
> Then, to keep my ''There ain''t no documentation!''
whining privileges, I
> went and added what I learned to the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/multiline-step-arguments
>
> I''d call it my minor good deed for the day, but really I was using
it
> to procrastinate on my podcasting work for another half hour, so
> overall it was morally neutral.
>
Allright allright. You *will* be allowed into Cucumber heaven :-)

Aslak
>
> -- 
> Have Fun,
>   Steve Eley (sfeley at gmail.com)
>   ESCAPE POD - The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine
>   http://www.escapepod.org
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Aslak Helles?y
<aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Allright allright. You *will* be allowed into Cucumber heaven :-)
Woohoo!  That makes me so happy that I won''t share any of the dirty
jokes that sentence evokes.  >8->


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Thanks to all for the prompt answer and new docs!!!
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