Test Hooks Lack Owner Access

I’m trying to set up easy access to a unit test’s factory, so I figured I’d so something like this:

let myFactory;

module('my test', function(hooks) {
  setupTest(hooks);

  hooks.before(function() {
    myFactory = this.owner.factoryFor('thingy');
  });

  hooks.after(function() {
    myFactory = undefined;
  });

To my surprise, my hooks didn’t have access to this.owner! Is this expected?

[rwjblue]

To directly answer the question: this.owner is setup for each test (it uses hooks.beforeEach to do this setup) which means hooks.before and hooks.after cannot access any of the properties provided by ember-qunit. If we moved to doing this setup once per module your tests are no longer running in isolation (they would be sharing state from prior tests) which would be quite confusing and likely to troll people…

[rwjblue]

Recent changes made these properties read only, so you should get an error when setting them now…