How can the tags in cucumber hooks(@Before and @After) be organised

Question

I have two step definitions that contain two types of tags (populate and test)

1. First step def - cars.ts that contains the following tags: @populate_cars1, @cars1, @populate_cars2, @cars2.
2. Second step def - clients.ts contains the following tags: @populate_clients1, @clients1, @populate_clients2, @clients2.

In hooks I have the following definition:

-> Before("not @populate_cars1 and not @populate_cars2 and not @populate_clients1 and not @populate_clients2", function(){...}) - works as expected

-> After("not @cars1 and not @cars2 and not @clients1 and not @clients2", function(){...}) - works as expected.

I want to organised the tags like below: let pop_car = "not @populate_cars1 and not @populate_cars2" let pop_client = "and not @populate_clients1 and not @populate_clients2" @Before(pop_car + pop_client, function(){...})

I have for each step def a variable that contains operations between tags and concatenate the variable to get a string.

The issue is when I concatenate the variable "pop_car + pop_client" - the hook @Before is called.

Answer 1

You need a space between the concatenated variables.

Try with:

@Before("pop_car" + " " + "pop_client")