Expression for an argument list about cucumber-expressions

[mpkorstanje]

It's on the agenda for consideration.

I'm curious how your example is supposed to work though. Currently @ParameterType("^(?:(?:,|;|and|or)?\s?\w+)+$") shouldn't work because the ^ and $ would match the start and end of line.

[mpkorstanje]

And the biggest obstacle is going to be getting the CSV parsing/language parsing done right. Imagine a separator that is also part of a product name:

Given the products Dumbo the Flying Elephant, "Spike and Suzy" and Lord of the Rings

Not to mention the Oxford comma, so now we combine two different separators with no products in between:

Given the products Dumbo the Flying Elephant, "Spike and Suzy", and Lord of the Rings 

And I have no idea how this works in other languages that aren't English. So it might not be possible to come up with a good solution.

[mmiikkkkaa]

I'm curious how your example is supposed to work though. Currently @ParameterType("^(?:(?:,|;|and|or)?\s?\w+)+$") shouldn't work because the ^ and $ would match the start and end of line.

I tried it without ^ and $, I guess it was kind of an automatism of myself, to add it in my description here. So Please ignore it. 😅

Regarding the other concerns: they are of course tricky, but if it is up to the user to provide possible separators (so no default separators, but explicitly provided ones) and the test data, it might (at least in a first step) simply be the users responsibility to chose both wisely.

If only "," and ";" are provided as separators, neither the language nor the test data itself should be a problem. Also possible would be ignoring separators within quotes, like in your example. The Oxford comma might remain as a problem, as long as it is not also provided as a separator, like

@ParameterType(regex = "\\w+", separators=[",", ";", "and", "or", ", and", ", or"])
  fun product(product: String): List<Product> {
    return Product(it)
  }

[mattwynne]

I'm curious why you want to put this list on a single line, rather than using a single-column DataTable beneath the step?