TestContext always Null - citrus-framework

Question

Is there any way I can inject TestContext in my cucumber step class?
I am using citrus, spring, and cucumber together with the latest version. But when I use the below injection I always get null pointer exception of the TestContext. For TestDesigner and TestRunner I have no issue to get.
#CitrusResource private TestContext tContext;
and in the log i am seeing
Failed to get proper TestContext from Cucumber Spring application context: No qualifying bean of type 'com.consol.citrus.context.TestContext' available

Answer 1

You are obviously using the setting
cucumber.api.java.ObjectFactory=cucumber.runtime.java.spring.CitrusSpringObjectFactory
in the cucumber.properties.
When doing so you need to manually add the Citrus Spring configuration with #ContextConfiguration annotation on your steps class.
#ContextConfiguration(classes = CitrusSpringConfig.class)
public class MySteps {
#CitrusResource
private TestDesigner designer;
[...]
}
In case you are using the default cucumber.xml Spring XML application context you need to add the Citrus Spring config as bean to that file:
<!-- JavaConfig bean post-processor -->
<bean class="org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor"/>
<!-- Citrus Java config -->
<bean id="citrusSpringConfig" class="com.consol.citrus.config.CitrusSpringConfig"/>