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Add property to support the restriction for the Steps length in the report
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Description
#### I'm submitting a ...
- [x] feature request
Add a property to support the restriction for the Steps length in the report, for example,
`allure.max.title.length' as was in Allure 1.
#### What is the current behavior?
Property `allure.max.title.length` is ignored.
#### What is the expected behavior?
When `allure.max.title.length=1000` is added in `allure.property` file, the logged steps in the Allure report should be cut after 1000 symbols.
#### What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
Sometimes, very big values are passed to methods annotated with @Step annotation, and there is no obvious way to restrict the number of characters to be printed in the report.
For example, if 'allure-assertj' is used, and the JSON objects to be compared are large, there is no way to restrict how they are displayed in the report.
On the following sample screenshot there are more than 2000 characters:

and this is just about 1/3 of the whole JSON object. And all its characters are displayed in the step.
#### Additional information
The issue was discussed here https://github.com/allure-framework/allure2/issues/1150
| Allure version | 2.13.5 |
| --- | --- |
| Test framework | testng@6.9.10 |
| Allure integration | allure-testng@2.13.5 |
| Generate report using | allure-maven@2.9 |
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating how the allure.max.title.length property and @Step values are handled when report steps are generated. Implement the requested limit so logged step text is cut at the configured number of characters, then verify that a value such as 1000 changes the generated report output.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- testing-qa
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100