The only way to do it at present is to implement the dependency in
java, i.e. invoking the method directly.

What you're talking about here is to have step-level dependencies, which
are currently not supported.

No reason not to though, please raise a request in Jira and we'll
consider it.

Cheers

On 19/08/2010 22:14, Eduardo David wrote:
> It is not really a precondition. It would be a higher level step. For
> example:
> If I have a filling form story called "Fill form 1" and I have other
> stories that fill the same form but I don't want to duplicate the
> steps for filling the form.
> Is it possible?
> Is there any other way I can do that?
>
> Regards
>
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Mauro Talevi
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     This behaviour is not supported at the moment.
>
>     But what is the use case for having the precondition specified at
>     step level rather than at beginning of scenario?
>
>
>     On 19/08/2010 22:01, Eduardo David wrote:
>>     Ok,
>>
>>     But what is I want to use a GivenStory as one middle step in my
>>     scenario? Something like:
>>
>>     Given stepOne
>>     And stepTwo
>>     AndStoty path/to/story.
>>     ...
>>     And stepN
>>     Then ...
>>
>>     Regards,
>>
>>     Eduardo
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mauro Talevi
>>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>     wrote:
>>
>>          You can use GivenStories to define preconditions to entire
>>         scenarios,
>>         not just to a single step.
>>
>>         Scenario: A scenario that depends on other scenarios
>>
>>         GivenStories /path/to/a/precondition/story
>>
>>         When I do something that depends on precondition
>>         Then I'm successful
>>
>>         On 19/08/2010 21:48, Victor Moura wrote:
>>         > Hi,
>>         >
>>         > Not really. I would like something like this
>>         >
>>         > # ruby
>>         > Given /^a document exists with content$/ do |pystring|
>>         >   Given "I go to add a document"
>>         >   And 'I fill in "ditacontent" with', pystring
>>         >   And  'I press "Add to repository"'
>>         > end
>>         >
>>         > In this code, the step "Given a document exists with
>>         content" is being
>>         > defined. What this step does is call theese 3 inner steps
>>         that are
>>         > defined somewhere else.
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Mauro Talevi
>>         > <[email protected]
>>         <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>         >> JBehave supports alias annotations to reference the same
>>         method with different language patterns.
>>         >>
>>         >> Is this what you mean?
>>         >>
>>         >> Cheers
>>         >>
>>         >> On 19 Aug 2010, at 16:30, Victor Moura <[email protected]
>>         <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>         >>
>>         >>> Hi,
>>         >>>
>>         >>> Is there a way to, when defining a step, use a step
>>         alteady defined
>>         >>> (not by calling the method)? Something like is done in
>>         Cucumber, like
>>         >>> the following
>>         >>>
>>         >>>
>>         >>> When /I log in the site with the login "(.*)" and
>>         password "(.*)"/ do
>>         >>> | login, passwd |  // This is the step that we want to define
>>         >>>    When /I fill the field "txtLogin" with "login"    //
>>         This step,
>>         >>> was defined somewhere else, and will be called inside the
>>         step we are
>>         >>> defining now
>>         >>>    When /I fill the field "txtPassword" with "passwd" //
>>         Calls the
>>         >>> same step as the above, using different parameters
>>         >>> end
>>         >>>
>>         >>> The idea is that we can define "higher level" steps
>>         independent of the
>>         >>> method we define in java, and that the legibility of
>>         those higher
>>         >>> level steps we are defining is greater that what we get
>>         when using
>>         >>> something like (in JBehave)
>>         >>>
>>         >>> @When "I log in the site with the login \"$login\" and
>>         password \"$passwd\"
>>         >>> public void doLogin(String login, String passwd) {
>>         >>>   fillTextField("txtLogin", login); // this method is
>>         defined as a
>>         >>> step somewhere else
>>         >>>   fillTextField("txtPassword", passwd);
>>         >>> }
>>         >>>
>>         >>> You see, it looks pretty much the same, but I like the
>>         idea of being
>>         >>> able to make the steps more reusable, independent and
>>         legible.
>>         >>>
>>         >>> Thanks in advance.
>>         >>>
>>         >>> --
>>         >>> Victor Moura Cortez
>>         >>>
>>         >>>
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