Support for nested steps

In eg. cucumber-ruby, one has the ability to invoke steps from step definitions, as shown here. It would be super cool to have this support in cypress-cucumber-preprocessor as well.

Right now, I’ve solved it using resolveAndRunStepDefinition, but I realize that this isn’t part of the official API.

Feature: some feature
  Scenario: some scenario
    When within "some section" I fill in "foo" for "bar"

const { When } = require("cypress-cucumber-preprocessor/steps");
const { resolveAndRunStepDefinition } = require("cypress-cucumber-preprocessor/lib/resolveStepDefinition");

When("within {string} {}", (section, subExpression) => {
  cy.contains("section", section).within(() => {
    resolveAndRunStepDefinition({
      keyword: "When",
      text: subExpression
    });
  });
});

When("I fill in {string} for {string}", (text, label) => {
  cy.get(`input[label='${label}']`)
    .type(text);
});

[edmodo-CeciliaChen]

In my case, we don’t contain the to-be-called-step in feature line, so I wrote a function using the workaround @badeball provided:

import cucumberStep from 'cypress-cucumber-preprocessor/lib/resolveStepDefinition';

function RunStep(step) {
    cy.log("Step: "+step);
    cucumberStep.resolveAndRunStepDefinition({
        keyword: "*",
        text: step
      });
}

then call it in step_definition file

import {RunStep} from '../util';

Then(/(.*): user send a chat with text "(.*)"/, (page_name, text) => {
    RunStep(page_name +': user clicks on "CHAT_BOX"');
    RunStep(page_name +': user input "' + text +  '" in "CHAT_BOX_INPUT"');
    RunStep(page_name +': user clicks on "SENT_BUTTON"');
});

it worked perfectly, thanks to this workaround.

[amitguptagwl]

@badeball reported to them