I am using python-behave for BDD testing, I have to pass an URL (e.g. www.abc.com) from command line.
$behave -u "www.abc.com"
To achieve this, I have read behave documentation but there are not enough materials as well as explanations given for setting up the behave.ini file. I am also not sure how behave.ini file helps me to pass an argument.
Can someone please tell me how I can setup command line parameters for behave?
The suggested solutions above were needed in the past.
behave-1.2.5 provides a "userdata" concept that allows the user to define its data:
behave -D browser=firefox ...
SEE ALSO: behave: userdata
--help to discover the supported parameters. Patching the parser would add arguments and documentation to --help. How do you recommend documenting or making userdata options discoverable?Outdated answer, Currently supported itself as described by this answer.
No, it's not possible, because there is a parser that is defined in configuration.py file, and only allow defined options of it.
But if you want you can (by help of monkey patch !), just add your option same as other options to this parser.
For do that, first create a file for example behave_run.py and patch this parser before running of behave:
from behave import configuration
from behave import __main__
# Adding my wanted option to parser.
configuration.parser.add_argument('-u', '--url', help="Address of your url")
# command that run behave.
__main__.main()
And now if you run python behave_run.py --help, you can see your new url option:
$ python behave_run.py --help | grep url
-u URL, --url URL Address of your url
Now, you can run this behave_run.py file like behave file and pass your url argument too:
$ python behave_run.py --url http://google.com
And you can access this value of url option with context.config.url, for example in environment.py file and then set it for use in other functions:
def before_all(context):
context.browser = webdriver.Firefox()
context.url = context.config.url
Note:
If you want to call python run_behave.py as run_behave.py from anywhere, add this line:
#!/usr/bin/env python
to first line of run_behave.py and change mode of it to a executable file with chmod +x run_behave.py and then copy this file to one location of your PATH, for example in /usr/local/bin with sudo mv run_behave.py /usr/local/bin/run_behave.py
behave-1.2.5 @jenisys answer should be the accepted one - it's a clean implementation of the above.
As jenisys said, the way to pass user data is:
behave -D NAME=VALUE
An the way to access it from behave steps files is:
context.config.userdata['NAME']
An alternative to the great answer by Omid, would be to set environment variables before your call to behave, something like:
TESTURL="www.abc.com" behave
There are caveats to doing this and some examples of different scopes/permanence of the variables you would be defining in some of the answers here
os.environ['FOO'].
behave. What is it about that isn't clear? Are you trying to runbehavefrom some other code? What is it that you want to put in theinifile?