Support --out http://....

[aslakhellesoy]

Summary

Enables Cucumber to send results directly to a HTTP server

Details

Converts a string starting with ^http to a custom IO object that performs a HTTP request

Motivation and Context

We want to make it easy for users to publish their results to external services. Allowing users to specify a URL to send results to should help.

I'm fully aware that this is a fragile solution:

• It will fail the execution if the server is unavailable
• Doesn't support retry
• Doesn't support proxies

We will also provide guidelines about alternative, more robust mechanisms to publish results, such as:

• Write messages to a file
  • Use cURL to publish after cucumber is done
  • Write messages to the CI server's "artifacts" directory and have a process somewhere else that can download them

How Has This Been Tested?

With WEBrick

Screenshots (if appropriate):

Types of changes

• Refactor (code change that does not change external functionality)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)

Checklist:

• I've added tests for my code
• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.

[aslakhellesoy]

@vincent-psarga any idea why validate-cck is failing? I've merged in master.

I'll take a look at the JRuby failures...

[olleolleolle]

Q: a short question on in-progress code.

[vincent-psarga]

@vincent-psarga any idea why validate-cck is failing? I've merged in master.

I think it's due to the removal of JSON gem. I'll fix that.

[vincent-psarga]

You should be able to merge master again and get the build working (except for Windows for the moment)