Proposal for a simplified data store API

[surajbarkale]

Description

The current data store API seems to be inspired by Java and does not feel very pythonic. A simple dict access would better suit python code.

Implementation in getgauge/python.py can be:

class DataStoreContainer:
    def __init__(self):
        self.__scenario = dict()
        self.__spec = dict()
        self.__suit = dict()

    @property
    def scenario(self):
        return self.__scenario

    @property
    def spec(self):
        return self.__spec

    @property
    def suit(self):
        return self.__suit


data_store = DataStoreContainer()

It can be used in step as follows:

from getgauge import step, data_store

@step("description")
def step_fn():
	value = data_store.scenario['key']

This API can also be made backwards compatible through existing DataStoreFactory interface.

[sriv]

Hi @surajbarkale - thank you for the suggestion. This looks neat.

Would you like to send us a Pull Request?

[surajbarkale]

I shall try to create one

[BugDiver]

This issue still needs testing.

[BugDiver]

The fix Should be available in nightly >= 19 July 2018

[sswaroopgupta]

Documentation should be updated with the recommended usage.

[BugDiver]

The documentation is already updated. Refer getgauge/docs.gauge.org#85