Logging Messages from Java Class back to the Karate Report

Question

We have a scenario where we have to post a json request and then validate few actions in the UI. So we have a karate feature file which hits a request and after that we are invoking a java class from within the feature file. The java class would run the Selenium Webdriver test of us. In the java methods we have few Assertions/Info Messages which we would like to log back to the Karate Reports.

Is there a way in Karate with which we can write these messages from my Java Class to the Karate Test Reports?

Answer 1

If you use the Karate parallel runner it is designed to collect anything logged to package com.intuit.karate, which will then appear in the cucumber-html-report.

So you can try using the same slf4j Logger - and it might work.

A better way might be to just return a Map back to Karate from your Java code, with all the information you need to log. Then all you need to do is use the print keyword. I would recommend this approach actually, it should be less complicated and it does not assume that you are using the Cucumber HTML reporting. You could even do Karate asserts with the match keyword on the JSON that you get, refer to this example: dogs.feature.