Support for ValueTask and ValueTask<T> async binding methods.

TechTalk.SpecFlow/Bindings/AsyncMethodHelper.cs

@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ namespace TechTalk.SpecFlow.Bindings
 {
     internal static class AsyncMethodHelper
     {
-        private static readonly IBindingType TaskOfT = new RuntimeBindingType(typeof(Task<>));
+        private static bool IsTask(Type type)
+        {
+            return typeof(Task).IsAssignableFrom(type);
+        }
 
         private static bool IsTaskOfT(Type type, out Type typeArg)
         {
@@ -19,26 +22,56 @@ private static bool IsTaskOfT(Type type, out Type typeArg)
             return isTaskOfT;
         }
 
+        private static bool IsValueTask(Type type)
+        {
+            return typeof(ValueTask).IsAssignableFrom(type) || IsValueTaskOfT(type, out _);
+        }
+
         private static bool IsValueTaskOfT(Type type, out Type typeArg)
         {
             typeArg = null;
-#if NETFRAMEWORK
-            return false;
-#else
             var isTaskOfT = type.IsGenericType && type.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(ValueTask<>);
             if (isTaskOfT)
             {
                 typeArg = type.GetGenericArguments()[0];
             }
             return isTaskOfT;
-#endif
         }
 
         private static bool IsAwaitableOfT(Type type, out Type typeArg)
         {
             return IsTaskOfT(type, out typeArg) || IsValueTaskOfT(type, out typeArg);
         }
 
+        public static bool IsAwaitable(Type type)
+        {
+            return IsTask(type) || IsValueTask(type);
+        }
+
+        public static bool IsAwaitableAsTask(object obj, out Task task)
+        {
+            if (obj is Task taskObject)
+            {
+                task = taskObject;
+                return true;
+            }
+            if (obj is ValueTask valueTask)
+            {
+                task = valueTask.AsTask();
+                return true;
+            }
+            if (obj != null && IsValueTaskOfT(obj.GetType(), out _))
+            {
+                // unfortunately there is no base class/interface of the Value<T> types, so we can only call the "AsTask" method via reflection
+                var asTaskMethod = obj.GetType().GetMethod(nameof(ValueTask<object>.AsTask));
+                task = (Task)asTaskMethod!.Invoke(obj, Array.Empty<object>());
+                return true;
+            }
+
+            task = null;
+            return false;
+        }
+
         public static IBindingType GetAwaitableReturnType(this IBindingMethod bindingMethod)
         {
             var returnType = bindingMethod.ReturnType;

TechTalk.SpecFlow/Bindings/BindingDelegateInvoker.cs

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ public class BindingDelegateInvoker : IBindingDelegateInvoker
     {
         public virtual async Task<object> InvokeDelegateAsync(Delegate bindingDelegate, object[] invokeArgs)
         {
-            if (typeof(Task).IsAssignableFrom(bindingDelegate.Method.ReturnType))
+            if (AsyncMethodHelper.IsAwaitable(bindingDelegate.Method.ReturnType))
                 return await InvokeBindingDelegateAsync(bindingDelegate, invokeArgs);
             return InvokeBindingDelegateSync(bindingDelegate, invokeArgs);
         }
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ protected virtual object InvokeBindingDelegateSync(Delegate bindingDelegate, obj
 
         protected virtual async Task<object> InvokeBindingDelegateAsync(Delegate bindingDelegate, object[] invokeArgs)
         {
-            var r = bindingDelegate.DynamicInvoke(invokeArgs);
-            if (r is Task t)
-                await t;
-            return r;
+            var result = bindingDelegate.DynamicInvoke(invokeArgs);
+            if (AsyncMethodHelper.IsAwaitableAsTask(result, out var task))
+                await task;
+            return result;
         }
     }
 }

TechTalk.SpecFlow/TechTalk.SpecFlow.csproj

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
     <Reference Include="System.Net.Http" />
     <PackageReference Include="System.ValueTuple" Version="4.5.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation" Version="4.3.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions" Version="4.5.4" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == '$(SpecFlow_Core_Runtime_TFM)' Or '$(TargetFramework)' == '$(SpecFlow_Net6_TFM)'">

Tests/TechTalk.SpecFlow.RuntimeTests/Bindings/BindingInvokerTests.cs

@@ -85,4 +85,53 @@ public async Task Sample_binding_invoker_test()
         var stepDefClass = contextManager.ScenarioContext.ScenarioContainer.Resolve<SampleStepDefClass>();
         stepDefClass.CapturedValue.Should().Be("42");
     }
+
+    #region ValueTask related tests
+
+    class StepDefClassWithValueTask
+    {
+        public bool WasInvokedAsyncValueTaskStepDef = false;
+        public bool WasInvokedAsyncValueTaskOfTStepDef = false;
+
+        public async ValueTask AsyncValueTaskStepDef()
+        {
+            await Task.Delay(50); // we need to wait a bit otherwise the assertion passes even if the method is called sync
+            WasInvokedAsyncValueTaskStepDef = true;
+        }
+
+        public async ValueTask<string> AsyncValueTaskOfTStepDef()
+        {
+            await Task.Delay(50); // we need to wait a bit otherwise the assertion passes even if the method is called sync
+            WasInvokedAsyncValueTaskOfTStepDef = true;
+            return "foo";
+        }
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Async_methods_of_ValueTask_return_type_can_be_invoked()
+    {
+        var sut = CreateSut();
+        var contextManager = CreateContextManagerWith();
+
+        // call step definition methods
+        await InvokeBindingAsync(sut, contextManager, typeof(StepDefClassWithValueTask), nameof(StepDefClassWithValueTask.AsyncValueTaskStepDef));
+
+        // this is how to get THE instance of the step definition class
+        var stepDefClass = contextManager.ScenarioContext.ScenarioContainer.Resolve<StepDefClassWithValueTask>();
+        stepDefClass.WasInvokedAsyncValueTaskStepDef.Should().BeTrue();
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task Async_methods_of_ValueTaskOfT_return_type_can_be_invoked()
+    {
+        var sut = CreateSut();
+        var contextManager = CreateContextManagerWith();
+
+        await InvokeBindingAsync(sut, contextManager, typeof(StepDefClassWithValueTask), nameof(StepDefClassWithValueTask.AsyncValueTaskOfTStepDef));
+
+        var stepDefClass = contextManager.ScenarioContext.ScenarioContainer.Resolve<StepDefClassWithValueTask>();
+        stepDefClass.WasInvokedAsyncValueTaskOfTStepDef.Should().BeTrue();
+    }
+
+    #endregion
 }

Tests/TechTalk.SpecFlow.RuntimeTests/StepTransformationTests.cs

@@ -202,7 +202,6 @@ public async Task StepArgumentTypeConverterShouldUseAsyncUserConverterForConvers
             result.Should().Be(resultUser);
         }
 
-#if !NETFRAMEWORK
         [Fact]
         public async Task StepArgumentTypeConverterShouldUseAsyncValueTaskUserConverterForConversion()
         {
@@ -220,7 +219,6 @@ public async Task StepArgumentTypeConverterShouldUseAsyncValueTaskUserConverterF
             var result = await stepArgumentTypeConverter.ConvertAsync("user xyz", typeof(User), new CultureInfo("en-US", false));
             result.Should().Be(resultUser);
         }
-#endif
 
         private StepArgumentTypeConverter CreateStepArgumentTypeConverter()
         {

changelog.txt

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Features:
 + Support for using Cucumber Expressions for step definitions.
 + Support Rule tags (can be used for hook filters, scoping and access through 'ScenarioInfo.CombinedTags')
 + Support for async step argument transformations. Fixes #2230
++ Support for ValueTask and ValueTask<T> binding methods (step definitions, hooks, step argument transformations)
 
 Changes:
 + Existing step definition expressions detected to be either regular or cucumber expression. Check https://docs.specflow.org/projects/specflow/en/latest/Guides/UpgradeSpecFlow3To4.html for potential upgrade issues.

docs/Bindings/Asynchronous-Bindings.md

@@ -22,3 +22,5 @@ public async Task HttpClientGet(string url)
 ```
 
 From SpecFlow v4 you can also use asynchronous [step argument transformations](Step-Argument-Conversions.md).
+
+From SpecFlow v4 you can also use [ValueTask](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.tasks.valuetask?view=net-6.0) and [ValueTask<T>](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.tasks.valuetask-1?view=net-6.0) return types.