Is it possible to execute @BeforeClass and @ClassRule before @DataProvider method?

[aaschmid]

JUnit internally is first determining the test methods to be executed and validating as well as filtering them. At this point we already need to have the @DataProvider methods to be executed because otherwise we cannot (validate and) filter them.

Maybe by overriding the correct internal methods we can get around this ...

[aaschmid]

It at least would work for @BeforeClass, see 41087c3...efa5d1c.

[aaschmid]

@ClassRule was introduced with JUnit 4.9 and we currently support JUnit >= 4.8.2.
Futhermore the withClassRules(Statement) method is private such that the same implementation strategy as with @BeforeClass does not work here!