Register custom UrlReporter for Cucumber Reports

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I would like to capture the URL of the published report and send a message to an external service (Slack) with the URL of the report.

Describe the solution you’d like

I want to be able to specify an alternative implementation of UrlReporter, perhaps using a system property:

-Dcucumber.publish.urlreporter=com.acme.MyUrlReporter 

Work involved:

• Split the current UrlReporter class to a UrlReporter interface and a DefaultUrlReporter class
• Use java.util.ServiceLoader to instantiate the class, taken from the cucumber.publish.urlreporter system property

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

Redirecting STDERR to a file, then parse it with a shell script and send the message. That’s quite a roundabout way of doing this.

Additional context

This is actually something that’s requested by a user of Cucumber Reports.

[ahmetchakmak]

I am very surprised this feature is not implemented already. Clicking on a console output shouldn’t be the only way to reach report. There is basically no way to share report link with others with your automation code.

[aslakhellesoy]

I wasn’t suggesting implementing the slack logic - I only mentioned slack as an example. All I’m suggesting is to allow users to specify an implementation class of their own.

It could be used to send the result to a variety of destinations, depending on the users’ needs. Some possible use cases:

• Send a request to a HTTP API
• Append to a file
• Send an email

The idea is to open up the API so users can capture the URL in their own team/environment/organisation specific way.