Cucumbers don't do particularly well in shade in my experience
all plants that dont have axis of growth, and need support of other plants to grow - grapes, cucurbitas, asparagus, cucumbers, actinidia, tomatoes (in natural conditions), peas, some beans) just by fact that need support develop themselves to tolerate more or less shade, because usualy they are in shade of plants they use as support.....
this is theory, but in practice many cultivars of tomatoes and cucumbers for example, and exspecially grapes, are sellectionized to conditions with much more sunlight... because more sun means more sugar in fruit.... grapes are not form mediterranean originally but since they dont depend on rain at all, in mediterranean climate they give much better quality of fruit...