Class: Cucumber::Core::Ast::DataTable

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Includes:
DescribesItself, HasLocation
Defined in:
lib/cucumber/core/ast/data_table.rb

Overview

Step Definitions that match a plain text Step with a multiline argument table will receive it as an instance of DataTable. A DataTable object holds the data of a table parsed from a feature file and lets you access and manipulate the data in different ways.

For example:

Given I have: | a | b | | c | d |

And a matching StepDefinition:

Given /I have:/ do |table| data = table.raw end

This will store [['a', 'b'], ['c', 'd']] in the data variable.

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods included from HasLocation

#all_locations, #attributes, #comments, #file, #file_colon_line, #line, #location, #multiline_arg, #tags

Methods included from DescribesItself

#describe_to

Constructor Details

#initialize(rows, location) ⇒ DataTable

Creates a new instance. +raw+ should be an Array of Array of String or an Array of Hash You don't typically create your own DataTable objects - Cucumber will do it internally and pass them to your Step Definitions.



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# File 'lib/cucumber/core/ast/data_table.rb', line 35

def initialize(rows, location)
  raw = ensure_array_of_array(rows)
  verify_rows_are_same_length(raw)
  @raw = raw.freeze
  @location = location
end

Instance Attribute Details

#rawObject (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute raw.



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# File 'lib/cucumber/core/ast/data_table.rb', line 41

def raw
  @raw
end

Instance Method Details

#==(other) ⇒ Object



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# File 'lib/cucumber/core/ast/data_table.rb', line 84

def ==(other)
  other.class == self.class && raw == other.raw
end

#data_table?Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean)


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# File 'lib/cucumber/core/ast/data_table.rb', line 47

def data_table?
  true
end

#doc_string?Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean)


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# File 'lib/cucumber/core/ast/data_table.rb', line 51

def doc_string?
  false
end

#dupObject

Creates a copy of this table



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# File 'lib/cucumber/core/ast/data_table.rb', line 57

def dup
  self.class.new(raw.dup, location)
end

#inspectObject



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# File 'lib/cucumber/core/ast/data_table.rb', line 88

def inspect
  %{#<#{self.class} #{raw.inspect} (#{location})>}
end

#map(&block) ⇒ Object



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# File 'lib/cucumber/core/ast/data_table.rb', line 76

def map(&block)
  new_raw = raw.map do |row|
    row.map(&block)
  end

  self.class.new(new_raw, location)
end

#to_step_definition_argObject



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# File 'lib/cucumber/core/ast/data_table.rb', line 43

def to_step_definition_arg
  dup
end

#transposeObject

Returns a new, transposed table. Example:

| a | 7 | 4 | | b | 9 | 2 |

Gets converted into the following:

| a | b | | 7 | 9 | | 4 | 2 |



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# File 'lib/cucumber/core/ast/data_table.rb', line 72

def transpose
  self.class.new(raw.transpose, location)
end