IllegalArgumentException path must exist when the path has spaces and the URI has replaced the space with %20 url encoded

When the path, in my case project path, has spaces. the below error observed

[ERROR] setUpClass(common.TestRunner)  Time elapsed: 2.057 s  <<< FAILURE!
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: path must exist: /Users/edmundofigueroa/projects/test test test/automation-testcases-mobile/features

[INFO] 
[INFO] Results:
[INFO] 
[ERROR] Failures: 
[ERROR]   TestRunner>AbstractTestNGCucumberTests.setUpClass:27 » IllegalArgument path mu...
[INFO] 
[ERROR] Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
[INFO] 
[ERROR] There are test failures.

using cucumber-testng 7.6.1

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-testng</artifactId>
            <version>7.6.1</version>
        </dependency>

In debugging mode, I could see that the exception is thrown in cucumber-core-7.6.0.jar,

package io.cucumber.core.resource
ResourceScanner class > scanForResourcesUri(URI classpathResourceUri)
// classpathResourceUri = file:/Users/edmundofigueroa/projects/test%20test%20test/automation-testcases-mobile/features

the spaces are replaced by %20 which is url encoded space

[mpkorstanje]

But I consider this as a bug as for the filesystem path, as far as I know, the path can’t contain the symbol %. While in this case, the path was encoded as an url, %20 is url encoded for a blank space.

I believe you are mistaken here. Note that scanForResourcesUri takes a URI as an argument. Spaces are not legal characters in a URI and so must be encoded:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/java/net/URI.html

An illegal character is quoted simply by encoding it. The space character, for example, is quoted by replacing it with “%20”. UTF-8 contains US-ASCII, hence for US-ASCII characters this transformation has exactly the effect required by RFC 2396.

So while your project may not work with spaces in the path, it may not work for a different reason.

Now I’ve tried to reproduce your project but unfortunately I seem to be unable to. Could you please provide a minimal reproducer in the form of a github repo? You can use https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-java-skeleton as a starting point.

[zgordon02]

@figuedmundo what was your resolution to this?