test: improve gherkin test suite only relying on the newest version, with data loading

Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <[email protected]>

diff --git c/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/e2e/steps/ContextSteps.java i/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/e2e/steps/ContextSteps.java
index e4cd603..121b567 100644
--- c/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/e2e/steps/ContextSteps.java
+++ i/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/e2e/steps/ContextSteps.java
@@ -114,9 +114,9 @@ public class ContextSteps {
     public void a_context_containing_a_key_with_type_and_with_value(String key, String type, String value)
             throws ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException {
         Map<String, Value> map = state.context.asMap();
-        Map<String, Value> map = state.context.asMap();
         map.put(key, new Value(Utils.convert(value, type)));
         state.context = new MutableContext(state.context.getTargetingKey(), map);
+    }

     @given("a context containing a targeting key with value {string}")
     public void a_context_containing_a_targeting_key_with_value(String string) {
diff --git c/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/jackson/CelContextEvaluator.java i/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/jackson/CelContextEvaluator.java
index 20f3f5f..138c23f 100644
--- c/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/jackson/CelContextEvaluator.java
+++ i/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/jackson/CelContextEvaluator.java
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ public class CelContextEvaluator<T> implements ContextEvaluator<T> {
                 // Evaluate with context, overriding defaults.
                 objectMap.putAll(evaluationContext.asObjectMap());
             }
-            }

             Object result = program.eval(objectMap);

diff --git c/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/jackson/VariantsMapDeserializer.java i/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/jackson/VariantsMapDeserializer.java
index 339d8c8..9a63f58 100644
--- c/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/jackson/VariantsMapDeserializer.java
+++ i/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/jackson/VariantsMapDeserializer.java
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ public class VariantsMapDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<Map<String, Object
     }

     private Object convertJsonNodeToValue(JsonNode node) throws InstantiationException {
+
         if (node.isNull()) {
             return null;
         } else if (node.isBoolean()) {
@@ -60,25 +61,8 @@ public class VariantsMapDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<Map<String, Object
             return node.asDouble();
         } else if (node.isTextual()) {
             return node.asText();
-        } else if (node.isArray()) {
-            List<Object> list = new ArrayList<>();
-            for (JsonNode item : node) {
-                list.add(convertJsonNodeToValue(item));
-            }
-            return list;
         } else if (node.isObject()) {
-            Map<String, Value> map = new HashMap<>();
-            Iterator<Map.Entry<String, JsonNode>> fields = node.fields();
-            while (fields.hasNext()) {
-                Map.Entry<String, JsonNode> field = fields.next();
-                Object o = convertJsonNodeToValue(field.getValue());
-                if (o instanceof Value) {
-                    map.put(field.getKey(), (Value) o);
-                } else {
-                    map.put(field.getKey(), new Value(o));
-                }
-            }
-            return new Value(new MutableStructure(map));
+            return Value.objectToValue(node);
         }

         throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported JSON node type: " + node.getNodeType());

Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <[email protected]>

diff --git c/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/e2e/Utils.java i/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/e2e/Utils.java
index 1500d99..565968c 100644
--- c/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/e2e/Utils.java
+++ i/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/e2e/Utils.java
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import java.util.Objects;

 public final class Utils {

+    public static final ObjectMapper OBJECT_MAPPER = new ObjectMapper();
+
     private Utils() {}

     public static Object convert(String value, String type) {
@@ -27,7 +29,7 @@ public final class Utils {
                 return Long.parseLong(value);
             case "object":
                 try {
-                    return Value.objectToValue(new ObjectMapper().readValue(value, Object.class));
+                    return Value.objectToValue(OBJECT_MAPPER.readValue(value, Object.class));
                 } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
                     throw new RuntimeException(e);
                 }
diff --git c/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/TestFlagsUtils.java i/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/TestFlagsUtils.java
index 78a2fc5..13fe32f 100644
--- c/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/TestFlagsUtils.java
+++ i/src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/TestFlagsUtils.java
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import lombok.experimental.UtilityClass;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

+import static dev.openfeature.sdk.e2e.Utils.OBJECT_MAPPER;
+
 /**
  * Test flags utils.
  */
@@ -41,7 +43,8 @@ public class TestFlagsUtils {
      */
     public static synchronized Map<String, Flag<?>> buildFlags() {
         if (flags == null) {
-            ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
+            if (flags == null) {
+            ObjectMapper objectMapper = OBJECT_MAPPER;
             objectMapper.configure(StreamReadFeature.INCLUDE_SOURCE_IN_LOCATION.mappedFeature(), true);
             objectMapper.addMixIn(Flag.class, InMemoryFlagMixin.class);
             objectMapper.addMixIn(Flag.FlagBuilder.class, InMemoryFlagMixin.FlagBuilderMixin.class);

Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <[email protected]>

Author: aepfli

src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/e2e/Utils.java

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 
 public final class Utils {
 
+    public static final ObjectMapper OBJECT_MAPPER = new ObjectMapper();
+
     private Utils() {}
 
     public static Object convert(String value, String type) {
@@ -27,7 +29,7 @@ public static Object convert(String value, String type) {
                 return Long.parseLong(value);
             case "object":
                 try {
-                    return Value.objectToValue(new ObjectMapper().readValue(value, Object.class));
+                    return Value.objectToValue(OBJECT_MAPPER.readValue(value, Object.class));
                 } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
                     throw new RuntimeException(e);
                 }

src/test/java/dev/openfeature/sdk/testutils/TestFlagsUtils.java

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 package dev.openfeature.sdk.testutils;
 
+import static dev.openfeature.sdk.e2e.Utils.OBJECT_MAPPER;
+
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.StreamReadFeature;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ public class TestFlagsUtils {
      */
     public static synchronized Map<String, Flag<?>> buildFlags() {
         if (flags == null) {
-            ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
+            ObjectMapper objectMapper = OBJECT_MAPPER;
             objectMapper.configure(StreamReadFeature.INCLUDE_SOURCE_IN_LOCATION.mappedFeature(), true);
             objectMapper.addMixIn(Flag.class, InMemoryFlagMixin.class);
             objectMapper.addMixIn(Flag.FlagBuilder.class, InMemoryFlagMixin.FlagBuilderMixin.class);