Changing the scope of a variable to be available within a Method

After reading the value from a dropdown, I wanted to use that piece of information for a comparison test in another part of the Test Case. That's not a problem, except that I want to use the variable within a defined Method within the test case. I've done this sort of thing before and passed the needed values to the method. The Method didn't need any parameters, so I looked for another way to make that variable more "global" in scope.

Turns out this can be done using @Field

The first step is to import the correct library

import groovy.transform.Field

From there, "flag" the corresponding variable and change it's scope.

@Field String quoteBranchName
quoteBranchName=allQuoteBranchesList[0]
log.logWarning('The listed Branch in the quote is: ' + quoteBranchName)

That variable can now be referenced within a Method defined within that same Test Case

def addInventoryItem() {
    log.logWarning('The listed Branch in the quote is: ' + quoteBranchName)
        if (inventoryLocations.contains(quoteBranchName)==false){
        log.logError("The Inventory Item does not match the Branch Location")
    }
}

This is the first time I've needed to make this kind of reference. The verdict is still out on whether this is "cheating" or not :), but it gets the job, so I'm going with it.