Getting Feature level Tags in Runtime?

[zainafzal-tek]

I would like to retrieve the feature level tag during runtime to have a conditional assert. I am currently trying to use

StepEventBus.getParallelEventBus().getBaseStepListener().latestTestOutcome().get().getTags();

But every time it returns nothing. This is a Serenity Cucumber Framework on the latest versions of Junit 5 and Serenity. I am calling this in a actions class with a method annotated with the @step notation. I have not been able to find anything and the only solution I did find was in the archived repo for serenity cucumber.

[wakaleo]

This won't work because with JUnit 5 and Cucumber we don't have the current test outcome during the test (it is only assembled after the tests are completed). Why don't you use Cucumber hooks for this?

[zainafzal-tek]

I have not yet tried Cucumber hooks and our current implementation of the step defs follow older standards. So I dont know how that would work. Even with the implementing the hooks what would I call to get the tag being run? Or is that just a deprecated feature atm?

EDIT:
If i call the Feature class and get the feature tags in the @before hook would that work? is there a way to set it up globally, I remember using @BeforeAll in the past to set up webdriver but that was vanilla cucumber selenium with webdriverfactory custom implementation. If i do use @BeforeAll it wouldnt change any other setup steps? if it does how do i achieve a global @before hook

[wakaleo]

You can pass a Scenario parameter - see https://cucumber.io/docs/cucumber/api/?lang=java#hooks

[zainafzal-tek]

Replied above but that applies to a Scenario, I dont think it returns feature level tags i could be wrong tho?

[wakaleo]

It will return any tags applicable to that scenario, no matter what level they are defined at.

[zainafzal-tek]

Understood. Will try that out.

[zainafzal-tek]

using

private static Set<String> getTags; @Before public static void before(Scenario scenario){ getTags.addAll(scenario.getSourceTagNames); }

is returning a nullpointer. Keeps complatining that there is a null value hence it doesnt want to initialize the test

[wakaleo]

You would need to check the Cucumber docs or forums, but I don't think it should be a static.

[zainafzal-tek]

You might be right. let me try removing that.

[zainafzal-tek]

Still returning the same error even after removing the static.

[wakaleo]

That is managed by Cucumber so the Cucumber folks might have some ideas - I've used tags in the past like that but I don't recall where.