Calling beforeEach and afterEach with nested describe blocks

Question

I'm trying to get some logic to be called before and after each nested describe of a jasmine test suite I'm writing.

I have something like this right now:

describe('Outer describe', function () {
    beforeEach(function () {
        login();
        someOtherFunc();
    });

    afterEach(function () {
        logout();
    });

    describe('inner describe', function () {
        it('spec A', function () {
                expect(true).toBe(true);
        });

        it('spec B', function () {
                expect(true).toBe(true);
        });
    });
});

I'm finding my functions in the beforeEach and afterEach are called for each it inside my inner describe. I only want these to be called once for each inner describe I have in the outer one.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

To accomplish this I define a common function and then refer to it in the beforeAll/afterAll of each nested describe.

describe('Wrapper', function() {
  var _startup = function(done) {
    login();
    window.setTimeout(done, 150);
  };

  var _shutdown = function() {
    logout();
  };

  describe('Inner 1', function() {
    beforeAll(_startup);
    afterAll(_shutdown);
  });

  describe('Inner 2', function() {
    beforeAll(_startup);
    afterAll(_shutdown);
  });

  describe('Inner 3', function() {
    beforeAll(_startup);
    afterAll(_shutdown);
  });
});

It seems to be cleanest solution available.