Hi Marcin.
I am not sure you are following the Spock chat on Gitter. While talking to Jeremy there, I was looking into how Geb actually works. Result (I wrote much more there): It is a simple global Spock extension. But to my surprise, the Geb config is not read just once during extension start, but quite often, e.g. whenever the Geb test manager calls getBrowser in beforeTest, i.e. for each feature method in a Geb spec. By printing callstacks from the Geb config, this is easy to see.
So my question is: What is the reason for that? Are you expecting cases in which the Geb config changes during a JVM session? The driver configurations for multiple environments are closures, so they can be evaluated without re-reading the file. Any system properties defined there should also not depend on dynamic things like time stamps, random values or whatever.
Cheers
Marcin Erdmann schrieb am 31.03.2022 02:45 (GMT +07:00):
--GebConfig.groovy is usually evaluated when geb.ConfigurationLoader.getConf() is executed which for example happens inside of the parameterless constructor for geb.Browser. If you want to have GebConfig.groovy evaluated early on as part of executing tests then one thing that comes to mind with the setup you describe is to put new ConfigurationLoader().conf in a static initalization block of BaseTest.
--On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 9:34 PM jc <[email protected]> wrote:Ok, I think I know what happened. It's nothing Geb 5 changed. I worked with Leonard Brünings as he helped me clean up some bad code while figuring out another issue. One the lines I cleaned up was an unused line in the BaseTest: static Browser browse = new Browser()
With this line in place, even though it is unused anywhere, it seems as thought the env variable set in GebConfig are evaluated in time. Without this line, the GebConfig variables are not evaluated in time. I don't fully understand it. I definitely want to have good code (I am aware setting env variables in GebConfig is "bad", but it's working for us). So if there is another way we can achieve these @IgnoreIf method getting evaluated at the right time I am all for it. Any insights?--On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 1:47:48 PM UTC-5 jc wrote:I am currently in the process of trying to update our project's from 4.0 to 5.1. Currently on 4.0, we have a BaseTest class that extends GebReportingSpec and then all other test classes extend BaseTest. In GebConfig.groovy, I have some lines that set different environment variables such as "runOnGrid" which is true/false, "browserType" which is a string, "env" which is the environment, etc....We have some @IgnoreIf statement in our code to prevent running on certain environments like Production. For example, we have an entire test class "TestClassA" that can run on pre-prod but we want to ignore the whole class for Prod. We put an @IgnoreIf annotation on the class that looks at `System.getProperty("env") == "prod"`This is currently working beautifully in 4.0. However in 5.1 this is no longer working as `System.getProperty("env")` is coming back as null along with all of the other variables we have set. These variables are set by the time we hit the setupSpec() in BaseTest, but they are null prior to that when they were not before. So it seems like before 5.0, GebConfig.groovy was getting run earlier is the compilation process perhaps? I guess I don't know how it all works, but I just know now that with Geb 5 this method is no longer working for us.
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