Powermock 1.6.3 with Javassist 3.18.2-GA produces a NoSuchMethodError

Question

I am using Powermock 1.6.3 with Javassist 3.18.2-GA, Mockito 1.10.19, JUnit 4.11 and JDK1.8. I did not write the tests or the test classes and therefore, I am not very familiar with these libraries. Did not have any problems building on JDK1.7. I have been assigned the task to uplift the application to JDK1.8 and that is when I encountered this error first. Also, the errors occur only in those test classes that mock classes that have static methods or have methods that call static methods (the test classes that use the PowerMockito.mockStatic() method). I have spent a lot of time working on the issue and I feel like I have reached a dead end. Any help will be much appreciated. Here is the stack trace of the error:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javassist.CtMethod.hasAnnotation(Ljava/lang/Class;)Z
at org.powermock.core.transformers.impl.TestClassTransformer.removeTestAnnotationsForTestMethodsThatRunOnOtherClassLoader(TestClassTransformer.java:185)
at org.powermock.core.transformers.impl.TestClassTransformer.transform(TestClassTransformer.java:198)
at org.powermock.core.classloader.MockClassLoader.loadMockClass(MockClassLoader.java:250)
at org.powermock.core.classloader.MockClassLoader.loadModifiedClass(MockClassLoader.java:179)
at org.powermock.core.classloader.DeferSupportingClassLoader.loadClass(DeferSupportingClassLoader.java:70)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348)
at org.powermock.modules.junit4.common.internal.impl.JUnit4TestSuiteChunkerImpl.createDelegatorFromClassloader(JUnit4TestSuiteChunkerImpl.java:145)
at org.powermock.modules.junit4.common.internal.impl.JUnit4TestSuiteChunkerImpl.createDelegatorFromClassloader(JUnit4TestSuiteChunkerImpl.java:40)
at org.powermock.tests.utils.impl.AbstractTestSuiteChunkerImpl.createTestDelegators(AbstractTestSuiteChunkerImpl.java:244)
at org.powermock.modules.junit4.common.internal.impl.JUnit4TestSuiteChunkerImpl.<init>(JUnit4TestSuiteChunkerImpl.java:61)
at org.powermock.modules.junit4.common.internal.impl.AbstractCommonPowerMockRunner.<init>(AbstractCommonPowerMockRunner.java:32)
at org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner.<init>(PowerMockRunner.java:34)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.buildRunner(AnnotatedBuilder.java:29)
at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.runnerForClass(AnnotatedBuilder.java:21)
at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:59)
at org.junit.internal.builders.AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.runnerForClass(AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.java:26)
at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:59)
at org.junit.internal.requests.ClassRequest.getRunner(ClassRequest.java:26)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4TestSet.execute(JUnit4TestSet.java:51)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:123)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:104)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray(ReflectionUtils.java:164)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:110)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireStarter.invokeProvider(SurefireStarter.java:175)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireStarter.runSuitesInProcessWhenForked(SurefireStarter.java:107)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:68)

P.S. I have tried many different combinations of Javassist and Powermock and all of them have resulted in errors.

Answer 1

Faced the same issue. As mentioned by Rafael, the Issue was due to having a conflicting Javassist version. Since my project is a maven build project, I use the following to view the dependency tree

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.10:tree -Dverbose=true

From the output, I could find which component has Javassist as a transitive dependency. Then using maven dependency exclusion, removed that conflicting version from the classpath.

Hope this would be helpful

Answer 2

Power Mock 1.6.3 is compiled against Javassist 3.20.0-GA. If this results in a NoSuchMethodError, make sure no other library on your class path requires a newer version of Javassist.