Serenity.setSessionVariable scope for hooks(@BeforeAll)

[sandlok]

Hi @wakaleo
Thanks for code fix for @BeforeAll and @afterall hookup(3.2.0 version). However I have a use-case where in need to setup
something like this.
@BeforeAll
Serenity.setSessionVariable("token_id").to(accessToken);
The above "token_id" I want to retrieve it in Scenario
Serenity.getCurrentSession().get("token_id")-------This is giving null pointer exception. How to resolve this one

[wakaleo]

Session data is cleared before each session by default. If you want to preserve session data between sessions, you need to set the serenity.maintain.session property to true (see

serenity-core/serenity-model/src/main/java/net/thucydides/core/ThucydidesSystemProperty.java

Line 1354 in cf15361

SERENITY_MAINTAIN_SESSION,

).

[sandlok]

Hi Wakaleo,
Thanks for suggesting link. It worked upon configuring serenity.maintain.session = "true" in conf file. However I have observed one thing here.
If you are running tests without parallel execution its working
If you are running tests parallel, then its not working

[wakaleo]

Looks like it is behaving as expected. If you are running parallel tests, each parallel thread has it's own session. @BeforeAll methods are called in a different thread, and don't have access to the sessions used by the parallel tests. If you need to run your tests in parallel, you can either use a static variable or use a @before method to run at the start of each scenario.

[sandlok]

Got it Thanks