Conditional annotations beyond test method/class

[lubomsky]

I use JUnit as a runner for tests written in playwright.
For debugging purposes I want to do something only when some condition is met, for example some property is true.

Naturally I went with:

@BeforeAll
@EnabledIf("someCondition")
fun `do something once`() {
 // some setup
}


@BeforeEach
@EnabledIf("someCondition")
fun `do something every time`() {
 // something to do
}

private fun someCondition() = true

but this is not working - as expected after reading the javadoc.

Is it possible to add such a functionality?
Or maybe there is a different way to handle that?

[marcphilipp]

What would be the benefit of doing this rather can using a regular if statement?

@BeforeAll
fun `do something once`() {
  if (someCondition()) {
    // some setup
  }
}


@BeforeEach
fun `do something every time`() {
  if (someCondition()) {
    // something to do
  }
}

private fun someCondition() = true

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[lubomsky]

It's all about the readability and convention (I like to have single-responsible methods in my test framework).
For example I have one parametrized test to upload file and then check the app behavior.
But for 1 of 20 cases I need to change something just before uploading.
And after another 1 of 20 cases I need to clean something.

In fact, EnabledIf etc could also be done with an if statement....

[marcphilipp]

Team decision: We don't think this would be a good fit with the Jupiter programming model. In light of that, we're closing this issue. However, should there be considerable interest from the community we're happy to reconsider.