Call before hook once for test with a set of examples in Cucumber

Question

I'm trying to run a scenario with Cucumber that is using a before hook to load a dataset. My problem is the Scenario has a set of examples and the before step is called before every example, meaning I'm getting stopped at the start of the second example because of DatabaseUnitExceptions.

Is there some way to only call the before hook once for the whole scenario and not for each example?

Cheers

Answer 1

As stated by Gaël; each example under a scenario outline is a scenario. So Cucumber will run the @Before hook before each scenario / example. (Scenario and example being synonyms to Cucumber).

If you want to run a hook before all scenarios, have a look at @BeforeAll. Please refer to the Cucumber documentation on hooks.