Before hook in java

[Deepak]

package simulations;

import api.CustomHeaders;
import api.StandardHeader;
import api.URLs;
import helper.IdentityHelper;
import helpers.ConfigProvider;
import helpers.Device;

import io.gatling.javaapi.core.FeederBuilder;
import io.gatling.javaapi.core.ScenarioBuilder;
import io.gatling.javaapi.http.HttpProtocolBuilder;
import models.Config;
import static io.gatling.javaapi.core.CoreDsl.csv;
import static io.gatling.javaapi.core.CoreDsl.rampUsers;
import io.gatling.javaapi.core.Simulation;
import static io.gatling.javaapi.http.HttpDsl.http;


public class FastLoginSimulation extends Simulation {

    FeederBuilder<String> feeder = csv("customer2.csv").queue();
    private Device device = new Device();
    private IdentityHelper identityHelper = new IdentityHelper();
    private String deviceId = "#{deviceId}";
    //private Config config = ConfigProvider.getConfig();
    private Config config;

    @Override
    public void before() {
        // logger.info("Getting environment config");
        System.out.println("Simulation is about to start!");
        config = ConfigProvider.getConfig();
    }

    HttpProtocolBuilder httpProtocol = http
            .baseUrl(config.getApiBaseUri())
            .header(CustomHeaders.DEVICE_ID, deviceId)
            .acceptHeader("text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8")
            .userAgentHeader("Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 " +
                    "(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36")
            .header(StandardHeader.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json");

    ScenarioBuilder scn = identityHelper.login("login", feeder, device);

    {
        setUp(scn
                .injectOpen(rampUsers(1).during(1))
                .protocols(httpProtocol)
        );
    }
}

Does the before hook initialize after HttpProtocolBuilder because when I run the above script it gives a null pointer because config object is null but if I remove before hook and initialize config directly at class level it works.

[sbrevet]

Simulation

That’s the whole purpose of this before hook
The simulation is initialized but not yet started.

Cheers!

[Deepak]

But will before hook initialise before the simulation. Looks like before hook is not running before httpprotocol builder.