Java Cucumber passing function to step arguments

Question

I have step: Then date in field: is equal to 'myDate'

usually data-time format data is transferred to this step but I have a specific case that checks that the date is today, so I cannot hardcode the date

How I can resolve this prombel. Please help.

Answer 1

Better way in such case is to handle it inside step. For instance,

Then date in field: is equal to today

However, If you are using cucumber version 5+ you can use qaf-cucumber that will enable features from qaf which allows you to use properties.

Below is example.

Then date in field: is equal to '${expr:com.qmetry.qaf.automation.util.DateUtil.getDate(0, 'MM/dd/yyyy')}'

Alternately you can have property that store value for today and use that property. For example: in property file

today = ${expr:com.qmetry.qaf.automation.util.DateUtil.getDate(0, 'MM/dd/yyyy')}

your step:

Then date in field: is equal to '${today}'