Is it possible to share data in DependsOn method chains?

[Casimodo72]

Scenario: I have 3 test methods: Create, Modify (DependsOn on Create) and Delete (DependsOn on Modify).
The class is annotated with [Repeat(...)] and [NotInParallel].
The Create method creates a DB entity and gets an entity ID. I need to share this entity ID with the Modify and Delete methods.

I have tried using the StateBag of the previous method, but this does not work since it just gets the StateBag of a previous test method that has executed last.
I need to get the StateBag of the previous method of a specific chain. I asked an AI and it showed me code using an ExecutionIndex, but an ExecutionIndex doesn't seem to exist in TUnit.

Is it possible to share data in DependsOn chains?

[thomhurst]

I have tried using the StateBag of the previous method, but this does not work since it just gets the StateBag of a previous test method that has executed last.

Not sure I quite follow? If you store data in the Create State bag, your modify tests should be able to use that.

Calling TestContext.GetTests(...) should give you an array of tests, so all of those repeats. The order of these won't be deterministic, so I would probably try to get an Id from the bag and remove it so another test can't see it.

I'd iterate through each of them and try something like:

foreach (var test in tests)
if (test.StateBag.Items.TryRemove("key", out var id)) { ... }

The TryRemove should remove it from the dictionary so only one test ever gets it, and then next repeat will then move on to the next test etc

[Casimodo72]

Ah! I already moved on to using a keyed data source with created-IDs and modified-IDs and pushing/popping these. But I didn't thought of "popping" them directly from the StateBag like you described.
Thanks!

[Casimodo72]

Works!

[thomhurst]

Glad to hear ! 😁