feat: extend data files

[ewingjm]

Purpose

Resolves #6. Test projects were becoming very messy due to the amount of data files required (with many having only minor differences). There was also a maintenance headache, as these data files would need to be maintained (e.g. when mandatory fields change) and this effort would be duplicated across all of the files. For example, if I had a data file named an application,json - which I wanted to make a minor adjustment to - I would need to copy everything that's in an application.json into a new file.

Approach

Add a custom build task which processes the data files in a consuming project's 'data' folder. It looks for @extends properties (a relative path - minus extension - to another data file) and then merges these together. In addition, folder hierarchy can now be used to construct the name passed into the data creation bindings. For example:

|_ a record.json
|_ a record/
   |_ with a minor difference.json

Will allow Given I have created 'a record with a minor difference'. This is mostly useful when used in conjunction with @extends.

TODOs

• Automated test coverage for new code
• Documentation updated (if required)
• Build and tests successful

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