@parameters anonation through exception"BeforeSuite on method initializeAndroidDriver but has not been marked @Optional or defined"

[asmayonis1]

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Current Behavior

@BeforeSuite @Parameters({"platformVersion", "platformName", "deviceName", "automationName"}) public void initializeAndroidDriver( String platformVersion, String platformName, String deviceName, String automationName) throws MalformedURLException { {

    URL url = new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723");
    DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
    capabilities.setCapability("appium:platformVersion", platformVersion);
    capabilities.setCapability("appium:platformName", platformName);
    capabilities.setCapability("appium:deviceName", deviceName);
    capabilities.setCapability("appium:automationName", automationName );
    capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.talabat");
    capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.talabat.LandingScreen");
    capabilities.setCapability("appium:locationServicesAuthorized", false);
    capabilities.setCapability("appium:locationServicesEnabled", false);
    capabilities.setCapability("appium:autoDismissAlerts", true);
    capabilities.setCapability("appium:autoAcceptAlerts", false);

    androidDriver = new AndroidDriver(url, capabilities);
    wait = new WebDriverWait(androidDriver, Duration.ofSeconds(50));
}
}

and run testng xml file 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">

through exception org.testng.TestNGException: Parameter 'platformVersion' is required by BeforeSuite on method initializeAndroidDriver but has not been marked @Optional or defined in /private/var/folders/b5/936632353fj08k51cf78vm9jcn4crr/T/testng-eclipse-1114858715/testng-customsuite.xml

Expected Behavior

Android parameters should read from XML and run correctly

Minimal Reproducible Example

code has been attached

Environment

• Operating system:
• Appium server version (output of appium --version): v2.3.0
• Appium driver(s) and their version(s): uiautomator2@2.34.1
• Appium plugin(s) and their version(s):
• Node.js version (output of node --version):
• npm version (output of npm --version):
• Last component(s) version which did not exhibit the problem:
• Platform and version under test:
• Real device or emulator/simulator:

Link to Appium Logs

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Further Information

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[mykola-mokhnach]

Not sure this exception has to do anything with this client

[amedvedjev]

eeee. 1 you should move start Appium driver to @beforeMethod 2 this is not an appium bug. ask questions -> https://discuss.appium.io/ 3 error tells: you did not provide platformVersion you can add logs to see it:

    public void initializeAndroidDriver(
            String platformVersion,
            String platformName,
            String deviceName,
            String automationName) throws MalformedURLException {
        System.out.println("initializeAndroidDriver(): platformVersion: '" + platformVersion + "', platformName: '" + platformName + "', deviceName: '" + deviceName + "', automationName: '" + automationName + "'");

[asmayonis1]

@amedvedjev platform provided in XML as

<test name="Test-OnePlus5">
        <parameter name="platformVersion" value="13.0"></parameter>
        <parameter name="platformName" value="android"></parameter>
        <parameter name="deviceName" value="RF8NA0W2YFM"></parameter>
        <parameter name="automationName" value="UiAutomator2" />

but I figured the issue is we need to import import org.testng.ITestContext;