Attaching attachments in Allure reports using cucumber jvm after hooks - cucumber-jvm

Question

With Allure report framework when a step fails we can attach a screenshot or logs by calling a method with #Attachment annotation.
#Attachment(value = "Message", type = "text/plain")
public String attachLog(){
return "Hello, Test failed!";
}
But this means I have to explicitly call this method ( attachLog() ) in every step before assertions. Which seems unreasonable.
In CucumberJvm the "after" hooks are a great way to attach screenshots or logs. we do this by checking the scenario status and attach screenshots/logs based on the outcome.
I tried invoking the above method ( attachLog() ) in the cucumberJvm "after" hook. But unfortunately did not work.
Is there a solution to make this work?
Cheers
Vinod

Answer 1

You can override test failure method from ru.yandex.qatools.allure.cucumberjvm.AllureRunListener
public class CustomAllureListener extends AllureRunListener {
#Override
public void testFailure(Failure failure) {
super.testFailure(failure);
if (!failure.getDescription().isSuite()) { // check is needed to avoid double attaching
attachFailed();
}
}
#Attachment(value = "Message", type = "text/plain")
public String attachFailed(){
return "Test failed!";
}
}
And don't forget to change listener in pom.xml file
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.18.1</version>
<configuration>
<testFailureIgnore>false</testFailureIgnore>
<argLine>
-javaagent:${settings.localRepository}/org/aspectj/aspectjweaver/${aspectj.version}/aspectjweaver-${aspectj.version}.jar
</argLine>
<properties>
<property>
<name>listener</name>
<value>com.mycompany.testing.CustomAllureListener</value>
</property>
</properties>
</configuration>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
<version>${aspectj.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>