Tags do not support colons

[cody1024d]

Hello (again)!

I've found a small issue ---

If, for example I have the below:

@launchPage:Consumer18_4
  Scenario: Valid load
    ....

The tags property on the Scenario object, only shows having a tag of "launchPage". It seems to be leaving off the second part.

My use-case is, again from creating a framework point of view, I need the developers to be able to define extra meta-data about the scenario. In this case, this tag is performing 2 steps which are extremely boiler-platey that nearly all scenarios will have.

Thanks, Cody

[Tyler-Keith-Thompson]

Huh, you're right. I thought the official spec said tags were Alphanumeric but looking at the tests in the official cucumber repo it would appear _ is a valid character. I need to do a little digging to try and see if there's a gherkin language spec that says how this is supposed to work, I also need to adapt my tests that use the official Cucumber "good" JSON to read tags.

I'll start working on this ASAP.

Do you happen to know off-hand if a tag is:

• A token starting with @ and terminated by any whitespace character or another @
• A token starting with @ and terminated by any character not in an "allowed" characters set (like '_', '-')
• Some other rule

I do know that @tag1@tag2 with no whitespace is valid, I've got explicit tests for that in the repo.

[cody1024d]

I'm not sure the exact grammar rules surrounding tags, unfortunately, although some tutorials I'm seeing online seem to only mention white-space as invalid characters.

For more context on the current situation (if needed):

• It looks like both '-' and '_' actually are currently handled by the framework (based on my currently running code. I'm splitting the tag up to basically capture parts of it. So in the above example, I'm currently using: @launchPage-Consumer18_4, to get a reference to the value Consumer18_4)
• The colon is definitely not working, although I'm not sure what other special characters are also not working.

[cody1024d]

Here are some useful links that I dug up, that may help. I'm not seeing anything on a skim through, in the granularity of characters, but maybe you can find something:

Language Spec

Also, here is the gherkin repo, which has a ReadMe that may help as well:

Gherkin Repo

[Tyler-Keith-Thompson]

CucumberSwift 3.1.2 fixes this issue. I'll leave this open until you've had a chance to validate on your end

[cody1024d]

Confirmed working! Thanks @Tyler-Keith-Thompson! Closing this issue.