commit 2a8020462c946f10d8ccff37a30d230d58f3c404
Author: Mauro Talevi <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 20:00:08 +0200
Commit: Mauro Talevi <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:50:00 +0200
JBEHAVE-922: Updated docs.
diff --git a/distribution/src/site/content/tabular-parameters.html
b/distribution/src/site/content/tabular-parameters.html
index d13153e..b7fc820 100755
--- a/distribution/src/site/content/tabular-parameters.html
+++ b/distribution/src/site/content/tabular-parameters.html
@@ -147,6 +147,50 @@ that any existing value in the row map of data will not be
overridden.</p>
]]>
</script>
+<h2>Mapping parameters to custom types</h2>
+
+<p>It may sometime be useful to map the table row parameters to a custom
object. This can be done by annotating the type with the <a
+
href="javadoc/core/org/jbehave/core/annotations/AsParameters.html">AsParameters</a>
annotation:</p>
+<script type="syntaxhighlighter" class="brush: java">
+<![CDATA[
+ @AsParameters
+ public static class MyParameters {
+ @Parameter(name = "aString")
+ private String string;
+ @Parameter(name = "anInteger")
+ private Integer integer;
+ @Parameter(name = "aBigDecimal")
+ private BigDecimal bigDecimal;
+ }
+ ]]>
+</script>
+<p>The fields can be optionally mapped to the parameter names via the <a
+
href="javadoc/core/org/jbehave/core/annotations/Parameter.html">Parameter</a>
annotation.</p> If not present, the default mapping will use the name of
fields to match the name of the parameters.
+
+<p>Once we've defined our custom parameters type, we can inject it in a method
requiring one or more of these types:</p>
+<script type="syntaxhighlighter" class="brush: java">
+ @Given("the parameters mapped via names to custom types: %table")
+ public void givenTheNamedParametersList(List<MyParameters> list) {
+ System.out.println("List named: "+list);
+ }
+
+ @Given("the parameters mapped via names to custom type: %table")
+ public void givenTheNamedParametersType(MyParameters single) {
+ System.out.println("Single named: "+single);
+ }
+</script>
+<p>If we cannot control the custom type, e.g. we want to map to a type
contained in a third-party library, we can still achieve the mapping
programmatically:</p>
+<script type="syntaxhighlighter" class="brush: java">
+ @Given("the parameters mapped via names to custom types: %table")
+ public void givenTheNamedParametersList(ExamplesTable table) {
+ Map<String, String> nameMapping = new HashMap<String, String>();
+ nameMapping.put("aString", "string");
+ nameMapping.put("anInteger", "integer");
+ List<ThirdPartyParameters> parameters =
examplesTable.getRowsAs(ThirdPartyParameters.class, nameMapping);
+ ...
+ }
+</script>
+
<h2>Preserving whitespace</h2>
<p>By default, value in the table are trimmed, i.e. any preceding
@@ -230,7 +274,7 @@ Given the traders:
org/jbehave/examples/trader/stories/traders.table
<p>We need to enable theExamplesTable parameter converter to find
the resource with the appropriate resource loader configured via the <a
-
href="javadoc/core/org/jbehave/core/model/ExamplesTableFactory.html">ExamplesTableFactory</a>:
+
href="javadoc/core/org/jbehave/core/model/ExamplesTableFactory.html">ExamplesTableFactory</a></p>:
<script type="syntaxhighlighter" class="brush: java">
<