Add Step information in @BeforeStep and @AfterStep hook

Currently, we can only access Scenario level information in @BeforeStep & @AfterStep, it would be really great having step level information like, step name, line no, etc.

This will help to add implementation like, common step level log.

[laeubi]

Is there a complete description somewhere what event contain what information and when they are are and so on for the plugin API? Maybe that’s not always clear, I personally just look at existing plugins and start a debugger to see whats going really on but if you have found your way its very powerful but have the following limitations:

1. You need to write extra code on a different API that has much more “power” that one probably need for this simple case (access additional information about the Step the annotation is targeting)
2. You need to “glue” somewhere your Plugin code with your step-code most likely via static fields as (correct me if I’m wrong) plugins can’t participate in the DI mechanism as they are instantiated by Cucumber in a very early stage
3. You need to make sure your plugin is actually included in the run
4. Hooks can be contained to only run on given tags for example, that’s of course possible for a plugin but requires extra handling if placed in a plugin

on the other hand the proposed style:

@BeforeStep
public void before_step(Scenario scenario, Step step){

}

makes it clear what happens here (no side-band communication) and is something that one intuitively would expect, why should a before-stepp hook should not know about the step?

[darsh9292]

Yes, I would agree with @bhreinb , why before_step can not be extended with additional information on a step, where its job is on step level. Then we should not inject the Scenario object as well.

My purpose in raising this request was, I want this step log information on the console log just for additional log information. Also, sometimes I faced, the runner goes into the infinite mode, but I don’t know where it was exactly stopped executing.

This will help in case we will not have a final report at all.