No, no problem seen, and thanks for the quick reply.
The reason I ask is just to know if the state of the steps class instance is guaranteed to be available during the whole scenario. We normally use a thread local singleton context manager to hold the state of the scenario (cleared before each scenario is executed) in order to have the scenario state available to all step implementations executing in the same thread. But sometimes it is just cleaner, I think, to store state locally in fields in the step implementation class, as long as all the steps that need the info are located in the same class. Also, then I assume that the step class instances may be pooled and reused after a scenario has finished? If so, we have to be careful to not let the state leak over to the next scenario that happens to use that same instance. Or are steps class instances always recreated for each scenario execution? I’ll have to dig into our JBehave configuration a bit more to learn how this can be set up in our case. From: Mauro Talevi [mailto:mauro.tal...@aquilonia.org] Sent: den 7 september 2014 14:52 To: dev@jbehave.codehaus.org <mailto:dev@jbehave.codehaus.org> Subject: Re: [jbehave-dev] Step Class Instance Reuse? That depends how you configure your steps factory ... Sanity dictates that you ensure that the steps instances are unique (e.g. using the singleton mode of the dependency injection containers). Assuming this is true, then yes, the steps will always be executed from the same methods in the same class. Are you experiencing anything that may contradict this behaviour? On 07/09/2014 14:46, Anders wrote: Is it guaranteed that steps implemented in the same class will reuse the same step class instances when executed within the same scenario? Example: Scenario: My scenario Given step 1 When step 2 Then step 3 And step 4 Let’s say that step 1 and 2 are implemented in class A, and step 3 and 4 are implemented in class B. When this scenario is run, is it guaranteed that step 1 and 2 will be executed in the same instance of class A, and step 3 and 4 will be executed in the same instance of class B?
