Differentiate the cucmber step definition based on argument type-CodePudding

I have two cucumber step definition like as shown below

Map<String, Object> values = new HashMap<>();
:
:
@And("^(. ) has a value (false|true)$")
public void addValues(String key, Boolean value) {
    values.put(key, value);
}

@And("^(. ) has a value (. )$")
public void addValues(String key, String value) {
    values.put(key, value);
}

In the first step definition I want to set the value as boolean and in the second definition the value as String but some how I'm getting io.cucumber.core.runner.AmbiguousStepDefinitionsException

for the given statements

Given name has a value Manu
And isMajor has a value true
:
:

Can someone please tell me how to differentiate the step definition with the same statement but with different argument type

My cucumber version is 6.8.1

CodePudding user response：

The step isMajor has a value true matches both regular expressions. So Cucumber can't figure out which method to call. If you make the other regular expression match any argument except true/false your step definitions are no longer ambiguous.

You can probably do that with a negative lookahead but I'll leave that as exercise for some one else.

CodePudding user response：

Change this:

^(. ) has a value (. )$

to this:

^(. ) has a value ((?!true|false). )$

This will eliminate ambiguity.