Implementation of Gherkin Comments

Learn about the implementation of the parser and Gherkin comments.

We'll cover the following

Parser implementation
Writing the parse method
Parsing Gherkin comments
Try it out

Our existing IndentationManager class will help us quite a bit to implement our Gherkin parser, but there is still a lot for us to do. Don’t worry; like with the data modeling, we will work through each section one at a time and discuss what we are doing along the way. We should first address the hidden complexity of Gherkin’s keywords.

Previously, we briefly mentioned that Gherkin can be localized in several different languages. Gherkin has been translated into over seventy languages, including English and Norwegian. We can find the following example from their documentation:

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Introduction

What Are Strings?

Fluent Strings

The Formatting Helper Methods

The Logical Helper Methods

The Construction Helper Methods

The Extraction Helper Methods

Padding Strings

String Translations and Extension

Lines and Words

Applied Techniques: Writing a Gherkin Parser

Markov Chains and Text Generation

Fixed Width Data Parsing

Splitting Strings

Applied Techniques: A Blade Directive Validator

Working with HTML

Regular Expressions

Conclusion

Appendix

Implementation of Gherkin Comments