cucumber-json-formatter doesn't work in github actions

[vojtech-cerveny]

Hey, I was trying your script from and it seems that it doesn't work properly. I tried to debug and check this - https://github.com/vojtech-cerveny/cypress-cucumber-framework/actions/runs/3548944356/jobs/5960727834

I only added cucumber-json-formatter --help to verify, that it works properly and it fails.
https://github.com/vojtech-cerveny/cypress-cucumber-framework/blob/master/.github/workflows/automation.yml#L40

it seems, that cucumber-json-formatter is not on PATH and it doesn't work. It works locally, but not on Github Actions.
Also it means, that it doesn't generate json file from ndjson from cypress-preprocessor - it is pitty that it doesn't return any error, but it is what it is :)

[vojtech-cerveny]

Ok, update: if you split steps and create separate step for PATH, after that it doesn't throw error, but formatter doesn't show anything... 🤔

[vojtech-cerveny]

• I added artefacts into repo

      - name: Store test results into artifacts
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        if: always()
        with:
          name: test-results
          path: cypress/results/

and this is result:

[vojtech-cerveny]

And final message - I create issue for that in json-formatter - cucumber/json-formatter#33

[a8trejo]

Interesting, I think I remember experiencing something similar, and that's why I removed the cucumber-json-formatter --help command from that step, I also used to have it there

Although I think the issue belongs more to GitHub Actions than to cucumber/json-formatter because of this
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-commands-for-github-actions#adding-a-system-path

Prepends a directory to the system PATH variable and automatically makes it available to all subsequent actions in the current job; the currently running action cannot access the updated path variable.

[a8trejo]

What happens if you try on this line

this instead?
cat cypress/results/reports/cucumber_json/cucumber-messages.ndjson | cucumber-json-formatter > cypress/results/cucumber-standalone.json

[vojtech-cerveny]

Yup, well, if standalone cucumber-json-formatter --help doesn't work, then formatter in cypress doesn't work either - this is the problem, that currently I am not able to generate json file from ndjson on github actions

cat cypress/results/reports/cucumber_json/cucumber-messages.ndjson | cucumber-json-formatter > cypress/results/cucumber-standalone.json

^^ I tried this and it returns error cat: write error: Broken pipe - and what I googled, it should be problem with cucumber-json-formatter, that it doesn't accept anything from pipeline. 🤷‍♂️

[a8trejo]

got it, next week I'll see if I find anything different but thanks for looking into it! Will definitely follow the issue you raised with them 👍