Jbehave as Data Driven Testing Framework - testing

Question

I have some scenarios written in Jbehave and I would like to run it for 1000+ data. The Problem is that I cannot list all data items in 'Examples' because, firstly, it is not maintainable and secondly, I get this data file everyday from an external service.
Is there a way to write a scenario that can take data from the file?

Answer 1

Parameters can be loaded from an external file,
Details with an example are here: http://jbehave.org/reference/stable/parametrised-scenarios.html
Loading parameters from an external resource
The parameters table can also be loaded from an external resource, be
it a classpath resource or a URL.
Given a stock of <symbol> and a <threshold>
When the stock is traded at <price>
Then the alert status should be <status>
Examples:
org/jbehave/examples/trader/stories/trades.table
We need to enable the parser to find the resource with the appropriate
resource loader configured via the ExamplesTableFactory:
new MostUsefulConfiguration()
.useStoryParser(new RegexStoryParser(
new ExamplesTableFactory(new LoadFromClasspath(this.getClass())))
)

Answer 2

I too have same requirement and I think below will be the possible solution.
Implement a method to read the excel sheet and prepare the testData.table before scenario start executes, use #BeforeScenario jbehave annotation in steps java file.
refer this link to implement loading data from external resource http://jbehave.org/reference/stable/parametrised-scenarios.html
#BeforeScenario
public void prepareTestData(String excelSheetPath) {
// java code to read given excelSheetPath and prepare a *.table
}