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What is the idiomatic way of sharing state between steps of a scenario in Codeception?

I am using Codeception PHP with Gherkin language (.feature file extension). I tried to find an idiomatic way of sharing state between steps in a scenario. In my case the step implementation are NOT contained in the same class. I could share the state through some globals but I am thinking of a more idiomatic way. In fact I would love to store the state on Scenario level.

I already asked ChatGPT about this and got the hallucinated answer, that I could use the getState and setState methods on the Scenario object, which would have been ideal. But as I said, this was hallucinated, those methods do not exist.

Workaround

As a workaround I will create some class with static members that keep that state. But as I said, I am more interested in the idiomatic way of doing this.

Example

  @CloudPanelUserResource
  @Mailpit
  Scenario: Invitation
    When I invite a cloud panel user
    Then I see user in user list with status "invited"
      * An invitation mail is sent

CloudPanelUserResource-tag is configured to include a Page object and Mailpit comes with a Step class configured.

That means, that the step An invitation mail is sent is implemented in another class.

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