prettier-plugin-gherkin
This prettier plugin format your gherkin (.feature files) documents.
Example of changes:
@accountability @accountability-json Feature: accountability accounts should always be good @truncateTables Scenario: Check accountability # Insert fixtures Given the following fixtures files are loaded: | 10.contracts.yml | | 20.wallet.yml | | 30.tax.yml | Given I inject the header "authorization" with value 'Bearer some-token' And I inject the header "accept" with value "application/json" # I will create an order here Given I create an order Then the response status code should be 200 When I pay the latest order And I refund the last payment and transaction list with transactions: """ [{"name": "card", "credit": 5000 } ] """
Will be formatted to:
@accountability @accountability-json Feature: accountability accounts should always be good @truncateTables Scenario: Check accountability # Insert fixtures Given the following fixtures files are loaded: | 10.contracts.yml | | 20.wallet.yml | | 30.tax.yml | Given I inject the header "authorization" with value 'Bearer some-token' And I inject the header "accept" with value "application/json" # I will create an order here Given I create an order Then the response status code should be 200 When I pay the latest order And I refund the last payment and transaction list with transactions: """ [{ "name": "card", "credit": 5000 }] """
Versions
This version is compatible with prettier 3. If you still use prettier 2, you should use the 1.1.1 version of this plugin.
Installation
Install prettier if you don't have already.
npm install --save prettier-plugin-gherkin // or with yarn yarn add prettier-plugin-gherkin
Activate the plugin in your prettier configuration file:
.prettierrc
{
+ "plugins": ["prettier-plugin-gherkin"]
}You can then configure your git precommit, IDE, etc. to format the .features file with prettier.
Example with VSCode
prettier-plugin-gherkin-vscode.mp4
Options
This plugin has the following options:
forceNewlineBetweenStepBlocks (default: false)
Do force a blank linesbetween steps block:
Given the following block:
Given some context And some other context When I do something Then I should have a result
The default output will be the same as the input (no blank lines).
If you set this option to true, it will force a blank line between the context block and the action block:
Given some context And some other context When I do something Then I should have a result
If you already have a blank line in your input, it will be kept as-is (even with this option set to false).
If you have more than one blank line, it will be reduced to a single blank line.
escapeBackslashes
default to false
If false, all escaped backslash will be transformed to simple backslash : \\ → \
If true, all backslash will be espaced : \ → \\
This option may be due to the parser (see issue) and is here because of an inconsistence between the gherkin reference, that said that:
if you need a
\, you can escape that with\\.
and the tooling that accept unescaped \, including the cucumber parser used under the hood.
You may want to check your code base and be consistent : if you use simple backslash, keep the default option, if you escape all backslash, then set this option to true.
Documentation
Gherkin AST schema
Useful resources on Gherkin language
- Learn Gherkin on specflow.org
- Cucumber Gherkin reference
- Cucumber Gherkin JavaScript parser
- Prettier command reference
Contributing to this plugin
Clone the repository and install dependencies:
git clone git@github.com:mapado/prettier-plugin-gherkin.git
cd prettier-plugin-gherkin
yarn installSeveral commands are available:
yarn example # print the example file with the plugin. You can change de content of the example file as you need yarn test # run the tests suites : all features are tested yarn lint # the plugin is writter in TypeScript, this command will help you detect typescript issue
Test datas
Test datas can be found here : https://github.com/cucumber/gherkin-utils/tree/c35857189c2da3a9b84796ad585d25e70f7bf3b8/testdata