how to get test data in beforeEach() and afterEach()

[jlipps]

I need to get the name of each test in beforeEach and the pass/fail status of each finished test in afterEach. I looked at using this.test, but from there the best thing I found was this.test.parent, which is the suite of tests. That's all well and good, but how do I know which of those tests is the one whose before/after block I'm in?

[jlipps]

I saw #795, and that might help with beforeEach, but doesn't seem to address my need to know test status in afterEach.

[avaly]

You can achieve this using my proposed code change from #795. It works for afterEach also. You can write something like this:

beforeEach(function(){
    console.log('beforeEach', this.currentTest.title);
});
afterEach(function(){
    console.log('afterEach', this.currentTest.title, this.currentTest.state);
});

[jlipps]

awesome, let's get it merged then!

[adamduffy]

i would love to use this functionality but i am not sure what 'this' is in this context. in my tests, 'this' is undefined. is there a more thorough example?

edit: must have been in an update because it works now! thanks :)

edit: it works in the beforeEach and afterEach but not inside the test. it would be nice to set currentTest.myValue inside the test for the afterEach to observe.

[bebraw]

@adamduffy You have probably solved this by now but you need to be very careful about scope when dealing with this. If you have inner functions there (no fat arrow, no explicit bind), they will have their own scope. You can either bind the scope to parent or set something like var that = this at root scope.

[ohadschn]

this.currentTest.state is great, but it's unclear exactly what its possible values are. A quick search through the code suggests it's either "failed" or "passed". Apparently it can also be undefined if a failure took place in one of the before or beforeEach hooks.

[Visakeswaran]

How to get the state of previous test, in beforeEach hook?

[ORESoftware]

@Visakeswaran why would you want to do that? just curious? beforeEach only pertains to one test (the current test), not the previous test.

[lotosotol]

@Visakeswaran why would you want to do that? just curious? beforeEach only pertains to one test (the current test), not the previous test.

I need to retrieve the status of the whole suite before closing the browser either before the .quit() method and pass those to BrowserStack (which accepts passed or failed only). My understanding is this would be something we cannot achieve in Mocha yet?! I've tried using the this.*** but couldn't really find a proper solution. Any thoughts?