cucumber.api

Interface Plugin

All Known Subinterfaces:

ColorAware, ConcurrentEventListener, EventListener, 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 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.

Plugins may also implement one of these interfaces:

• ColorAware
• StrictAware
• EventListener
• ConcurrentEventListener
• StepDefinitionReporter
• SummaryPrinter