Test::BDD::Cucumber::StepContext

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).

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

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.