PowerMock Throwing an Exception from @RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class) Annotation

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9553245

Question

I'm trying to get PowerMockito working with my application. I've added the library to the build path. I have the following test class:

package client.controller;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner;

@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest(System.class)
public class SampleTest
{
    @Test
    public void test()
    {

    }
}

When I try to run the tests, I get the following exception:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/junit/internal/runners/TestClassRunner
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
    at org.powermock.modules.junit4.legacy.PowerMockRunner.<init>(PowerMockRunner.java:24)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.buildRunner(AnnotatedBuilder.java:31)
    at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.runnerForClass(AnnotatedBuilder.java:24)
    at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:57)
    at org.junit.internal.builders.AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.runnerForClass(AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.java:29)
    at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:57)
    at org.junit.internal.requests.ClassRequest.getRunner(ClassRequest.java:24)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.<init>(JUnit4TestReference.java:33)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestClassReference.<init>(JUnit4TestClassReference.java:25)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.createTest(JUnit4TestLoader.java:48)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.loadTests(JUnit4TestLoader.java:38)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:452)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.junit.internal.runners.TestClassRunner
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
    ... 31 more

According to the PowerMock FAQ, I should try using the legacy package. I did, and I'm still getting the same exception. Any ideas?

Was it helpful?

Solution

Looks like I was adding PowerMock to the build incorrectly. When I looked through the problems view in Eclipse, I found the following:

Archive for required library: 'lib/powermock-mockito-junit-1.4.11 4/powermock-release-junit-without-mock-framework-1.4.11.pom' in project 'Test' cannot be read or is not a valid ZIP file  Test        Build path  Build Path Problem
Archive for required library: 'lib/powermock-mockito-junit-1.4.11 4/powermock-release-without-test-and-mock-framework-1.4.11.pom' in project 'Test' cannot be read or is not a valid ZIP file   Test        Build path  Build Path Problem

Removing these two files from the build path fixed the problem.

OTHER TIPS

For me the the confusion started with junit versioning,

apparently 4.12 > 4.4 in junit versions.

So for versions > 4.4, you need to use powermock-module-junit4

instead of powermock-module-junit4-legacy.

As a side note, later I found out I have to use powermock-api-mockito2

instead of powermock-api-mockito

That's progress...

Maven instructions: https://github.com/powermock/powermock/wiki/Mockito-Maven

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