testNG: sending report via mail within the #AfterSuite section - email

Question

I'd like to send the report generated by testNG ( java+eclipse+testNG) within the #AfterSuite section.
It's not a problem to send it, but the point is that the report is generated after the #AfterSuite section, so , basically, i send the previous one instead of the last one !
Any idea about how can I solve it ?

Answer 1

As you are seeing, #AfterSuite runs before the report is generated.
Have you though about implementing a TestNG IReporter listener ?
public class MyReporter implements IReporter {
#Override
public void generateReport(List<XmlSuite> xmlSuites, List<ISuite> iSuites, String s) {
//Create your bespoke results
//Email results
}
}
Obviously you can see a flaw in that you have to generate your own results from the raw results data (which may be advantageous if you just want to email a subset of data).
The ideal solution would to be able to extend the default report generator, but I am not sure this can be done. However there is an existing listener provided by http://reportng.uncommons.org/, which actually provides a much nicer report output.
If you extend this this class, and call their code, and then add email generator code afterwards, it may work
public class MyReporter extends HTMLReporter {
#Override
public void generateReport(List<XmlSuite> xmlSuites, List<ISuite> iSuites, String s) {
super.generateReport(xmlSuites, iSuites, s);
//Email results
}
}
You can attach a listener to a test suite in several ways, as explained on the TEstNG website (http://testng.org/doc/documentation-main.html#listeners-testng-xml)
An alternative to all of this woudl be to use a build tool like Maven to run your tests, then have a post test event to email the results.

Answer 2

I copied the answer from Krishnan.
It works for me.
By the way, in my test environment, I need to extends the org.testng.reporters.EmailableReporter2 instead of EmailableReporter to make sure the correct count.
See below for your reference:
Krishnan Mahadevan Krishnan Mahadevan at Jul 31, 2012 at 8:58 am I am guessing that you are referring to the TestNG generated
"emailable-report.html" which you would want to mail.
With that assumption here's how you should be able to do it.
Extend org.testng.reporters.EmailableReporter
Override org.testng.reporters.EmailableReporter.generateReport(List,
List, String) and have it do something as below :
#Override
public void generateReport(List xml, List suites, String
outdir) {
super.generateReport(xml, suites, outdir);
SendFileEmail e= new SendFileEmail();
e.sendEmail();
}
Now add up this listener of yours into your suite file using
tag.