Ways to do picocontainer DI with REST assured request and response

Question

I am building a rest assured test FW with picocontainer DI using cucumber java. I need to share the request and response using the DI, but REST assured provides RequestSpecification and Response which are Interfaces and Interfaces cannot be shared. What is the REST assured non interface class that will allow me to build a request and response, issue a HTTP request and read the request and response data in other classes. Basically I need a way to create rest assured request and response java object.

Answer 1

The dependency injection context in cucumber-jvm spans the execution of a scenario. So it can only contain objects which can be created without any information from the scenario.

So rather then trying to share the RequestSpecification and Response you can share a helper class that has references to these objects. For example (constructors ommited):

 class MyStepDefs {

     SomeService service;

     @Given("a request")  
     void given_a_request(){
        service.createRequest();
     }
  }

 class OtherStepDefs {

     SomeService service;

     @When("a thing")  
     void a_thing(){
        service.doThing();
     }
  }

 class YetOtherStepDefs {

     SomeService service;

     @Then("it happens")  
     void a_thing(){
        service.asserItHappend();
     }
  }