BeforeScenarioBlock to execute only before "Given" statement

Question

Based on SpecFlow documentation, the [BeforeScenarioBlock] hook will be called before "Given" and "When" statement. Is there any way to make the [BeforeScenarioBlock] hook only to be called before "Given" statement ?

Answer 1

A [BeforeScenarioBlock] will run before any 'block' in the scenario, ie before each separate set of Given, When or Then blocks. There is no built in way to specify that a hook should only run before a particular type of block I don't think but I believe it should be straight forward enough to make sure that the code only runs before specific blocks inside the hook code. Something like this:

[BeforeScenarioBlock]
public void BeforeScenarioBlock()
{
    if (ScenarioContext.Current.CurrentScenarioBlock == ScenarioBlock.Given)
    {
        //execute the code before the given
    }
}

Although I have not tested this.