NAME

       Test::BDD::Cucumber::StepContext - Data made available to step definitions

VERSION

       version 0.17

DESCRIPTION

       The coderefs in Step Definitions have a single argument passed to them, a
       "Test::BDD::Cucumber::StepContext" object. This is an attribute-only class, populated by
       Test::BDD::Cucumber::Executor.

ATTRIBUTES

   columns
       If the step-specific data supplied is a table, the this attribute will contain the column
       names in the order they appeared.

   _data
       Step-specific data. Will either be a text string in the case of a """ string, or an
       arrayref of hashrefs if the step had an associated table.

       See the "data" method below.

   stash
       A hash of hashes, containing three keys, "feature", "scenario" and "step".  The stash
       allows you to persist data across features, scenarios, or steps (although the latter is
       there for completeness, rather than having any useful function).

   feature
   scenario
   step
       Links to the Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Feature, Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Scenario,
       and Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Step objects respectively.

   verb
       The lower-cased verb a Step Definition was called with.

   text
       The text of the step, minus the verb. Placeholders will have already been multiplied out
       at this point.

   harness
       The Test::BDD::Cucumber::Harness harness being used by the executor.

   matches
       Any matches caught by the Step Definition's regex. These are also available as $1, $2 etc
       as appropriate.

   is_hook
       The harness processing the output can decide whether to shop information for this step
       which is actually an internal hook, i.e. a Before or After step

METHODS

   background
       Boolean for "is this step being run as part of the background section?".  Currently
       implemented by asking the linked Scenario object...

   data
       See the "_data" attribute above.

       Calling this method will return either the """ string, or a possibly Transform-ed set of
       table data.

   matches
       See the "_matches" attribute above.

       Call this method will return the possibly Transform-ed matches .

   transform
       Used internally to transform data and placeholders, but it can also be called from within
       your Given/When/Then code.

AUTHOR

       Peter Sergeant "pete@clueball.com"

LICENSE

       Copyright 2011, Peter Sergeant; Licensed under the same terms as Perl