Data-driven test with dynamic data set

Hello,

I would like to retrieve my data set from our back-end before executing my parametrised tests in a for loop but I don't know what is the best place to do that.

1 - beforeAll hook Unfortunately, playwright generate tests from the test.describe / for loop without executing the beforeAll hook. So I get No tests found error because my dataset object is empty.

test.beforeAll(async () => {
  products = await getAllProducts();
})

test.describe.parallel('Add to Cart from Product page', () => {
  for (const category in products) {
    for (const product of products[category]) {

**2 - Fixtures ** I tried with fixtures but it's not possible to share fixtures with test.describe call so I can't loop on it.

test.describe.parallel('Add to Cart from Product page', ({ products }) => {
  for (const category in products) {
    for (const product of products[category]) {

**3 - Setup test ** I saved my retrieved dataset into a json file and import it in my test file, but when I execute my tests the import fail because the file doesn't exist yet.

setup('Get all products', async () => {
  const products = await getAllProducts();

  // Save products as JSON file
  const filePath = 'tests/.datasets/products.json';
  const jsonData = JSON.stringify(products, null, 2);
  fs.writeFileSync(filePath, jsonData);
})

In my test

import products from '../.dataset/products.json'

Did I reach a limit ? I would appreciate any help or example <a:lourdleson:1146390517928689674> Thank you