cucumber.runtime.CucumberException: No such field

[taringamberini]

Summary

I get the exception:

cucumber.runtime.CucumberException: No such field
  mypackage.model.Person.birthPlace
    at cucumber.runtime.table.TableConverter.toListOfComplexType(TableConverter.java:106)
    at cucumber.runtime.table.TableConverter.convert(TableConverter.java:91)
    at cucumber.runtime.StepDefinitionMatch.tableArgument(StepDefinitionMatch.java:97)
    at cucumber.runtime.StepDefinitionMatch.transformedArgs(StepDefinitionMatch.java:74)
    at cucumber.runtime.StepDefinitionMatch.runStep(StepDefinitionMatch.java:37)
    at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.runStep(Runtime.java:300)
    at cucumber.runtime.model.StepContainer.runStep(StepContainer.java:44)
    at cucumber.runtime.model.StepContainer.runSteps(StepContainer.java:39)
    at cucumber.runtime.model.CucumberScenario.run(CucumberScenario.java:44)
    at cucumber.runtime.junit.ExecutionUnitRunner.run(ExecutionUnitRunner.java:102)
    at cucumber.runtime.junit.FeatureRunner.runChild(FeatureRunner.java:63)
    at cucumber.runtime.junit.FeatureRunner.runChild(FeatureRunner.java:18)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
    at cucumber.runtime.junit.FeatureRunner.run(FeatureRunner.java:70)
    at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber.runChild(Cucumber.java:95)
    at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber.runChild(Cucumber.java:38)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
    at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber.run(Cucumber.java:100)
    at junit.framework.JUnit4TestAdapter.run(JUnit4TestAdapter.java:38)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.run(JUnitTestRunner.java:532)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.launch(JUnitTestRunner.java:1179)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.main(JUnitTestRunner.java:1030)

with the following feature:

    Feature: Create account
        Scenario: Save person data
        Given the authenticated person fills the form with:
      | name | ... | birthPlace | ... |
      | Ann  |     | Paris      | ... |

with the following scenario:

    @Given("^the authenticated person fills the form with:$")
    public void theAuthenticatedPersonFillsTheFormWith(List<Person> personList) throws Throwable {
        ...

and with the following Person bean:

    public class Person implements Serializable {

        private String name;
        private BirthAddress birthAddress;

        public String getName() {
            return name;
        }

        public void setName(String name) {
            this.name = name;
        }

        public String getBirthPlace() {
            if (birthAddress != null) {
                return birthAddress.getBirthPlace();
            } else {
                return null;
            }
        }

        public void setBirthPlace(String birthPlace) {
            birthAddress = new BirthAddress();
            birthAddress.setBirthPlace(birthPlace);
        }

    }

Expected Behavior

Cucumber should be able to convert the data table in the List<Person>.

Current Behavior

Cucumber is not able to understand the existence of the property birthPlace, even if exist getBirthPlace and setBirthPlace.

Possible Solution

1

Add private String birthPlace; to Person bean, but I don't like having to change my model to run cucumber test.

2

Leave DataTable as method parameter type:

    @Given("^the authenticated person fills the form with:$")
    public void theAuthenticatedPersonFillsTheFormWith(DataTable personList) throws Throwable {
        ...

and convert manually to List<Person>. I'll go for this boring solution.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

See summary example, then run cucumber.

Context & Motivation

I'd like to use my rich data model.

Your Environment

OS: Windows 7 professional
IDE: Netbeans
JARS:

• cucumber-core-1.2.5.jar
• cucumber-html-0.2.3.jar
• cucumber-java-1.2.5.jar
• cucumber-junit-1.2.5.jar
• cucumber-jvm-deps-1.0.5.jar
• gherkin-2.12.2.jar
• hamcrest-core-1.3.jar
• junit-4.12.jar

[sebrose]

Cucumber-JVM uses a 3rd party library, XStream (http://x-stream.github.io/), to do automatic conversions. It's extremely unlikely that we'll be adding this automatic conversion.

You could convert to one of the more generic List/Map formats (or use DataTable) and write a simple adaptor.

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