cucumber.api

Interface Plugin

All Known Subinterfaces:

ColorAware, Formatter, StepDefinitionReporter, StrictAware, SummaryPrinter

public interface Plugin

Marker interface for all plugins.

A plugin can be added to the runtime to listen in on step definition, summary printing and test execution.

Plugins must implement one of the following interfaces:

• StepDefinitionReporter
• SummaryPrinter
• Formatter

Plugins are added to the runtime from the command line or @CucumberOptions and may be provided with a parameter. To accept this parameter the plugin must have a public constructor that accepts one of the following arguments:

• String
• Appendable
• URI
• URL
• File

To make the parameter optional the plugin must also have a public default constructor.