Use of BeforeAll/AfterAll in Kotlin-based Cucumber suite does not work as expected

[ejbartelds]

👓 What did you see?

@BeforeAll in a Kotlin-based Cucumber suite did not work as expected, even though placed in a companion object and annotated @JvmStatic

✅ What did you expect to see?

I expected the @JvmStatic and @BeforeAll annotated method to be picked up by Cucumber without problems, as a before-all initializer method.

📦 Which tool/library version are you using?

cucumber-java 7.20.1 kotlin 2.0.x

🔬 How could we reproduce it?

See screenhots: in Kotlin, write a suite or a test and have a beforeAll method. See the error appear.
Debug this and set a breakpoint in io.cucumber.java.MethodScanner::scan ; you'll see the beforeAll method is "seen" twice, once as a static final method (whish is OK) and once as a non-final method (in the companion object), which triggers the error.

📚 Any additional context?

No response

[mpkorstanje]

As a work around could you check if it works when you declare the functions at package level instead?

[ejbartelds]

Ah, why didn't I think of that... A package method does indeed work, and is a viable workaround (for me at least). Thank you for the suggestion.

[mpkorstanje]

Looks like it is also still impossible to accurately detect companion objects in Java without depending on kotlin-reflect.

So probably worth adding a note to the documentation of cucumber-java about this.