Could stepdefs which take a data table treat a missing table as empty instead of errror about godog HOT 2 CLOSED

On what scenarios would it help you to use a step definition that has no data table but is implemented with a function receiving a table? godog generates functions based on the feature file step definitions - that means the source of the function structure are the step definitions. if a step has no data table associated with it godog assumes it needs none. And by the way you can pass empty tables by providing only the table column names.

Feature:
        Scenario:
              Given an example step
              | name | age | gender |

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there are heavily reused stepdefs where it is convenient to express extra named values in the data table in a key-value format. this saves needing to define multiple stepdefs for every possible combination of optional values as part of a step:

Feature:
        Scenario:
              Given an example step
              | value x | 123  |
              | value y | 345 |
              | value z | 546 |

This is useful in cases where there are unknown numbers and possible combinations of these optional values

In these cases, it would be convenient to allow the table to be omitted if no optional values are required, otherwise another step with slightly different wording is needed in order to pass the table or not.

The step function is already able to define how it interprets the table. all that would be required is the scenario parser to check if the function expects a data table, and to pass an empty table if none is provided in the cucumber

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