scope.SPECIFICATION in markdown

[Andy Dingfelder]

Hi

I'm using a markdown table example and I need an object to persist across all tests

e.g. I need to construct a object that controls database connections etc prior to the tests running, and then use this same object for all tests

I see APIs that seem to do this, using scope.SPECIFICATION

But when I try the below, it seems like the object is still being recreated for each line in the markdown table

@ConcordionScoped(Scope.SPECIFICATION)

private ScopedObjectHolder<DbUtilsConcordion> dbUtilsPersister = new ScopedObjectHolder<DbUtilsConcordion>() {
    @Override
    protected DbUtilsConcordion create() {
        log.debug("creating DbUtilsConcordion")
        return new DbUtilsConcordion();
    }
};

in my markdown I'm running:

**Then** the thing should work

| [run][] [Scenario](- "c:example")  | [some column](- "#col1") | [another col](- "#col2") | [Result](- "?=#result") |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------ | ------------------------ | ----------------------- |
| 1 first test                       | abc                      | 123                      | pass                    |
| 2 second test                      | def                      | 456                      | pass                    |

[run]: - "#result=assertItPasses(#col1, #col2)"

The only way I can seem to get it not to re-initialise the object is by moving the code that calls the ScopedObjectHolder's get method into a @BeforeSuite method.
Is this expected behavior?

If so it would be great to have a scope.SUITE setting?

Thoughts?

Cheers