Behat Gherkin Parser

This is the new Gherkin parser for Behat. It comes bundled with more than 40 native languages (see i18n) support & much cleaner architecture than previous one.

Gherkin parser from now on will be separate project from Behat core itself and has no foreign dependencies, which means, that you can use it in your DSL-specific projects.

Usage

<?php

$keywords = new Behat\Gherkin\Keywords\ArrayKeywords(array(
    'en' => array(
        'feature'          => 'Feature',
        'background'       => 'Background',
        'scenario'         => 'Scenario',
        'scenario_outline' => 'Scenario Outline|Scenario Template',
        'examples'         => 'Examples|Scenarios',
        'given'            => 'Given',
        'when'             => 'When',
        'then'             => 'Then',
        'and'              => 'And',
        'but'              => 'But'
    ),
    'en-pirate' => array(
        'feature'          => 'Ahoy matey!',
        'background'       => 'Yo-ho-ho',
        'scenario'         => 'Heave to',
        'scenario_outline' => 'Shiver me timbers',
        'examples'         => 'Dead men tell no tales',
        'given'            => 'Gangway!',
        'when'             => 'Blimey!',
        'then'             => 'Let go and haul',
        'and'              => 'Aye',
        'but'              => 'Avast!'
    )
));
$lexer  = new Behat\Gherkin\Lexer($keywords);
$parser = new Behat\Gherkin\Parser($lexer);

$feature = $parser->parse(file_get_contents('some.feature'));

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project develop branch (all new development happens here, master for releases & hotfixes only).
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add unit tests for it (look at tests/Behat/Gherkin for examples). This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit
• Send me a pull request.

Installing Dependencies

wget -nc http://getcomposer.org/composer.phar
php composer.phar update

Running tests

phpunit

Contributing to Gherkin Transaltions

Gherkin supports →40 different languages and you could add more! You might notice i18n.php file in the root of the library. This file is downloaded and autogenerated from original cucumber/gherkin translations. So, in order to fix/update/add some translation, you should send Pull Request to the cucumber/gherkin repository. Behat\Gherkin will redownload/regenerate translations from there before each release.

It might sounds difficult, but this way of dictionary sharing gives you ability to migrate your *.feature files from language to language and library to library without the need to rewrite/modify them - same dictionary (Gherkin) used everywhere.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Konstantin Kudryashov (ever.zet). See LICENSE for details.

Contributors

• Konstantin Kudryashov everzet [lead developer]