Hi all, I’m getting the below error when trying to set my beforeAll function to suspend

override suspend fun beforeAll() {...

, which is because I’m trying to make it call a suspend function which waits for test data to be generated (removed company names below)

Conflicting overloads: public open suspend fun beforeAll(): Unit defined in com..., public open fun beforeAll(): Unit defined in io.kotest.core.config.AbstractProjectConfig

Has anyone else had this problem?

If you just need to bridge blocking and non-blocking code, you could invoke your suspending function in

runBlocking { }

?

Thanks I’ll give that a try

Does your test class extend anything other than a spec class

This is basically what it looks like, just extending AbstractProjectConfig

object MyConfig : AbstractProjectConfig() {
    override val globalAssertSoftly = true

    override fun beforeAll() {
        super.beforeAll()

        // Set up things here
    }
}

Ahhh you're talking about the one in project config

runBlocking worked perfectly, thanks for the help 🙂

So the beforeAll in project config is not suspend because it's been around since before coroutines existed

What's the benefit of having it suspend? Mustn't it complete before any tests starts anyway?

allows you to do suspend stuff without requiring run blocking

Gotcha :)

That’s a welcome change, nice.