Reporting - Output to file

[peteclark82]

It is currently not possible to specify an "output" file as a CLI argument for saving reports. The JSON formatter seems to write directly to STDOUT, which can be a problem when debugging (using console.log) or if the program fails, producing invalid JSON.

It would be desirable if this worked like cucumber in ruby, allowing multiple formats saved out to separate output files.

[jbpros]

There are actually two separate issues here:

1. redirect formatter (not only JSON but pretty, progress, html, etc. as well) output to another file than STDOUT;
2. allow for multiple formatters in a single run.

[jbpros]

I created a separate issue regarding the multiple formatters.

[JRedgrave]

Julien is there any news on when we would be able to specify an HTML output file?

[neilD2]

+1

[mwinteringham]

+1

[letshaveyer]

HI I have been manually copying and pasting the content of the JSON results to the cucumber.json file in the data directory of cucumber-json2report-master, which does allow me to get some nice results of the run, but it would be great if cucumber.js could place the file in that directory, thus eliminating the manual step.

I don't really want to hack the version or create a fork. Suggestions?

[letshaveyer]

Any update on this?

[aslakhellesoy]

@letshaveyer this sounds like a useful feature to you. Why don't you send a pull request?

[brad8118]

Until this is working you can modify json_formatter.js. This is hack but much easier that copying an pasting every time. We also are adding a time stamp to the filename.

Change the formatterIo object to also write to a file

var formatterIo = {
write: function(string){
self.log(string);
fs.writeFileSync('path\test_results.json', string); // added
}
};

[samccone]

This is a simple thing to do with simple pipe redirects in unix and bash

cucumber-js --format=json | tee wow.json

+1 to close

[brad8118]

We can't pipe it. We're using protractor's config file to set cucumberjs
options

CucumberOpts: {
Format: 'JSON',
Tags: '@testrun'
}

We have a bat file that uses node to start protractor.

Brad
On Aug 5, 2014 9:54 AM, "Sam Saccone" notifications@github.com wrote:

This is a simple thing to do with simple pipe redirects in unix

cucumber-js --format=json | tee wow.json

+1 to close

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[samccone]

Interesting @brad8118 this seems like it would be a feature of protractor and not cucumber.

protractor is invoking cucumber and what it does with the output is the responsibility of protractor and not cucumber.

Those are just my initial thoughts, open to ideas tho. I am just trying to prevent feature creep of the cucumber lib.

[jlin412]

@brad8118 I am using protractor. I dosn't really want to muddle source code. Is there a way that I can add a hook or support file to do that?

var formatterIo = {
write: function(string){
self.log(string);
fs.writeFileSync('path\test_results.json', string); // added
}
};