Support programmatically skipped scenarios (e.g if a scenario has a dependency failure)

[serhatozdursun]

I am working on an API product. Some endpoints are associated with 3rd party endpoints. Sometimes we may receive an error that does not belong to our product. In this case, I should be able to bypass this scenario without failing the whole feature.

If there was a feature which allow me skip the scenario with certain case , it would be awesome. It could be static method like Gauge.skip("skip reason");

[chadlwilson]

This is possible to be implemented now with the support for getgauge/gauge#2502 , modeled off gauge-dotnet or gauge-python. Help welcome :-)

[serhatozdursun]

I'll have a look at the first availble time.

[chadlwilson]

See getgauge/gauge-python#397 and getgauge/gauge-python#390 for some discussion of how to implement it.

Although more similar to Java the gauge-dotnet one is a bit harder to unpack as an example as the logic is spread into a shared library which other plugins don't have.

Basic steps for consistency

• create a SkipScenarioException type available to users to throw in the plugins API which includes a reason/message for the skip.
• emit the message back to Gauge.
• catch these exceptions during step execution and hooks.
• instead of failing the scenario set the step to passed and set executionResult.skipScenario flag to true (it should default to false)