How can I set a global variable (i.e an access token) via globalSetup?

[khaledosman]

I know this has been asked before but I wasn't able to find an answer..
in my case I need to login to some API and get an access token that all the other tests can use / rely on to make the subsequent calls.

I setup a globalSetup option in my package.json where the function is being called successfully and calling the API... however I can't seem to set the returned access token to global and use it from other files, it just fails silently.

Reading through other answers I saw references to using setupFiles or beforeAll, but that doesn't help my case as they're run before each test or before each file respectively, I want to be able to run it once per setup and use it across multiple files and tests.

[thymikee]

You can store it in your file system so that it's available for all tests. You can also run a pre test script that will populate and env variable and use that inside. There is a bunch of possibilities out there but Jest doesn't have a dedicated API to make this use case easier.

Closing as this is not a help forum.

[eddiemonge]

globalSetup seems exactly like the place this would be done. The fact that it can't seems like a limitation.

[SimenB]

globalSetup runs outside of the context tests run in - otherwise they wouldn't be sandboxed.

However, we have discussed having globalSetup return som serializable value that we could inject into tests: #7184

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