Gherkin auto-complete?

[LimeBlast]

Hi, I love this plugin, thank you so much for creating and continuing to support it.

Can I make a request? Do you have any plans to include autocomplete for feature files? i.e. the ability to start typing a step definition within a .feature file, and have it automatically suggest other steps which already exist?

I've noticed a few other IDEs have plugins which provide this (eg: https://github.com/austincrft/sublime-gherkin-auto-complete-plus), and it would be really cool if JetBrains IDEs did too.

Thank you.

[LimeBlast]

Some minor updates, now I've played with Cucumber+ a little more.

It seems like there is some amount of autocomplete available, but this seems to be based on steps defined within the step_definitions folder.

What I'm more interested in is having it read other .feature files, and use than to populate an autocomplete. I would find this much more useful, as I'm often not going to have access to defined steps, especially early in a project.

I think I've also found a bug, which is causing the autocomplete to look at step definitions within bundled gems.

eg:

• http://share.foxsoft.co.uk/h3CaFO
• http://share.foxsoft.co.uk/OZ6Lcy

Thank you

[maximehamm]

Hello Daniel

About the bug : I assume you're using Ruby and it's IntelliJ plugin... the screencast shows that the navigation is not going to the wright location... this feature is provided by Ruby's plugin, not by Cucumber+. Please report this here

About the expected feature : I understand that you except step completion to suggest all available steps in Gherkin files, not only those having an implentation... This completion is managed by the Gherkin plugin. But here I think Cucumber+ can do something for you :) I will investigate more and let you know !

[LimeBlast]

Hi, thank you for the info. I'll report the bug accordingly :)

As for feature-based autocompletion, if you could add that, that would be amazing 🥇

Thank you.

[maximehamm]

Hi

Here is how I propose to manage it :

• The icon tells you if the completion comes from a feature implementation or a feature gherkin file.
• The right side gives you the name of the file where the proposal step comes from (i.e a Java class, Ruby, Kotlin, etc) or a feature file name. You will also know in how many files the step is used, for exemple : toto.feature (+2) )

Is that good enough ?

I will also plan to do that :

• Strike out completion step linked to a deprecated implementation (but I'm not sure this will work for Ruby... It will work for Java, Kotlin and Javascript)
• Showing a preview of the scenario near the completion proposal

Maxime

[LimeBlast]

That's amazing! Yes, that looks perfect. Thank you.

[maximehamm]

This was a great idea from you Daniel ;) Cucumber+ version 8.0.0 si submitted... it should be available this afternoon or maybe next monday ! Please report at Jetbrain's plugin market place how much you like Cucumber+ 😊

[LimeBlast]

Yes of course, this is amazing. Thank you.

I'm off work next week, so I won't get to test it until the week after, but I eagerly look forward to it.