How to make @Before of cucumber restricted for only one feature file?

Question

I am using API testing and selenium both in one framework. I added @Before of cucumber to open a browser but for api testing i don't need to open browser. But its opening for both UI and API. How should i restrict so that browser doesn't open up for api? @Before is opening browser for api also which i don't need.

Answer 1

You can use tagged hooks on the Before hook

@Before("not @API")
public void before() {
    ....
}

Add the tag @API to the feature file with api senarios.

@API
Feature: api feature file