BeforeMethod in Cucumber

[Anoop Halder]

Hello,

Is there any Hook Or annotation Or feature available in Cucumber that is equivalent to TestNG's @BeforeMethod annotation. I need to run a Check before each method(step definition) with any annotation like-(@Given,@When,@Then,@And etc..)

But '@Before' (cucumber.api.java.Before) hook is not fulfilling my this requirement as it runs only once for the scenario.

For example -

feature file-

Feature: Feature1 test

Scenario: Feature1 scenario1 (@Before will be executed)

Given Step for given  (@Before will not be executed) Here i want to add a check before starting this step 

When Step for when  (@Before will not be executed) Here i want to add a check before starting this step 

Then Step for then     (@Before will not be executed) Here i want to add a check before starting this step 

[Nishant Vashisth]

If you're using info.cukes (which is an older version)

You can add custom formatter which can invoke a function before every step being executed

@CucumberOptions(
        features = "src/main/resources",
        glue = "com.bdd",
        plugin = {"com.bdd.BDDCustomFormatter"},
        tags = {"@match"})

Which can implement these two Interfaces

gherkin.formatter.Formatter

gherkin.formatter.Reporter

They have functions like

/**
     * Is called for each step of a step container. <b>Attention:</b> All steps are iterated through
     * this method before any step is actually executed.
     *
     * @param step the {@link Step} to be executed
     */
    void step(Step step);

Which you can override to do whatever you want before every step.

If you're using newer versions of cucumber.io

You can implement cucumber.api.formatter.Formatter

And create event listeners

@Override
    public void setEventPublisher(EventPublisher publisher) {

        publisher.registerHandlerFor(TestCaseStarted.class, event -> {
            log.info("Test Case Started");
        });


        publisher.registerHandlerFor(TestStepStarted.class, event -> {
            log.info("Test Step Started");
       });