How to pass List of strings from Cucumber Scenario - cucumber

Question

I need to pass the List of strings from cucumber scenario which works fine as below
Scenario Outline: Verify some scenario
Given something
When user do something
Then user should have some "<data>"
Examples: Some example
|data|
|Test1, Test2, Test3, Test4|
In the step definition I use List to retrieve the values of something variable.
But when one of the value of data variable contains comma(,) e.g. Tes,t4 it becomes complex,since it considers "Tes" and "t4" as two different values
Examples: Some example
|something|
|Test1, Test2, Test3, Tes,t4|
So is there any escape character that i can use or is there is there any other way to handle this situation

Answer 1

Found an easy way. Please see the below steps.
Here is my feature file.
Here is the corresponding code to map feature step with code.
Oh yes. Result is important. You can see the debug view.

Answer 2

This should work for you:
Scenario: Verify some scenario
Given something
When user do something
Then user should have following
| Test1 |
| Test2 |
| Test3 |
| Tes,t4|
In Step definitions
Then("^user should have following$")
public void user_should_have_following(List<String> testData) throws Throwable {
#TODO user your test data as desired
}

Answer 3

In Transformer of TypeRegistryConfigurer, you can do this
#Override
public Object transform(String s, Type type) {
if(StringUtils.isNotEmpty(s) && s.startsWith("[")){
s = s.subSequence(1, s.length() - 1).toString();
return Arrays.array(s.split(","));
}
return objectMapper.convertValue(s, objectMapper.constructType(type));
}

Answer 4

Try setting the Examples in a column, like this:
| data |
| Test1 |
| Test2 |
| Test3 |
| Tes,t4 |
This will run the scenario 4 times, expecting 'something' to change to the next value. First 'Test1', then 'Test2', etc.
In the step definition you can use that data like so:
Then(/^user should have some "([^"]*)"$/) do |data|
puts data
end
If you want to use |Test1, Test2, Test3, Tes,t4|, change the ',' to ';' ex: |Test1; Test2; Test3; Tes,t4| and in the step definition split the data:
data.split("; ") which results in ["test1", "test2", "test3", "te,st"]
Converting the data to a List (in Java):
String test = "test1; test2; test3; tes,t4";
String[] myArray = test.split("; ");
List<String> myList = new ArrayList<>();
for (String str : myArray) {
myList.add(str);
}
System.out.print(myList);
More on this here

Answer 5

Examples:
Colors
color-count
Red, Green
5
Yellow
8
def function("{colors}"):
context.object.colors = list(colors.split(","))
for color in context.object.colors:
print(color)

Answer 6

Don't put the data in your scenario. You gain very little from it, and it creates loads of problems. Instead give your data a name and use the name in the Then of your scenario
e.g.
Then the user should see something
Putting data and examples in scenarios is mostly pointless. The following apply
The data will be a duplication of what should be produced
The date is prone to typos
When the scenario fails it will be difficult to know if the code is wrong (its producing the wrong data) or the scenario is wrong (you've typed in the wrong data)
Its really hard to express complex data accurately
Nobody is really going to read your scenario carefully enough to ensure the data is accurate