Setting global variable in before suite actions

Currently, runner.getVariable() isn’t available in Citrus before suite which extends TestRunnerBeforeSuiteSupport. What I am dong is:

runner.echo("My Value : ${extractedValue}");
final String myValue = runner.variable("tmp", "${extractedValue}");
variables.getVariables().put("Value", myValue);

This seems like a hack, could you please suggest a better way of doing it?

[christophd]

Ok, now I see what you are trying to do.

It is not possible to add/set global variables via test action. Also the runner and test context that you access in the before suite is not the same instance that is used later in your test case. Therefore variables are not visible. This is a design concept that should avoid tests to be dependent on each other which is bad by nature. The autowired global variables will also not help because of this.

I see the relevance of your code getting the access token once at the very beginning. I would suggest to use a test behavior for that that is applied to the before test lifecycle. The before test lifecycle has access to the test context of the actual test meaning that setting new variables in before test are also visible in test itself.

This could be a better solution for you.

[svettwer]

I just found #400, that will implement the requested feature. Therefore I’ll close this issue.