Cucumber-jvm: Incompatible class change error

Created on 11 Jun 2018 · 8Comments · Source: cucumber/cucumber-jvm

Summary

Tried to run a test after upgrading from Cucumber 2.1.0 to 3.0.2

Expected Behavior

Test runs successfully

Current Behavior

The following exception is thrown:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Found interface cucumber.api.TestCase, but class was expected
    at org.jetbrains.plugins.cucumber.java.run.CucumberJvm2SMFormatter.handleTestCaseStarted(CucumberJvm2SMFormatter.java:80)
    at org.jetbrains.plugins.cucumber.java.run.CucumberJvm2SMFormatter.access$000(CucumberJvm2SMFormatter.java:17)
    at org.jetbrains.plugins.cucumber.java.run.CucumberJvm2SMFormatter$1.receive(CucumberJvm2SMFormatter.java:32)
    at org.jetbrains.plugins.cucumber.java.run.CucumberJvm2SMFormatter$1.receive(CucumberJvm2SMFormatter.java:30)
    at cucumber.runner.EventBus.send(EventBus.java:28)
    at cucumber.runner.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:37)
    at cucumber.runner.Runner.runPickle(Runner.java:44)
    at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.runFeature(Runtime.java:120)
    at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.run(Runtime.java:106)
    at cucumber.api.cli.Main.run(Main.java:35)
    at cucumber.api.cli.Main.main(Main.java:18)

Possible causes

Here are some of the versions of the dependencies for the project. Maybe related?

        <spring.version>4.3.7.RELEASE</spring.version>
        <cucumber.version>3.0.2</cucumber.version>
        <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
        <selenium.version>3.7.1</selenium.version>

Environment

Mac OS X
IntelliJIDEA

Source

ghost

Most helpful comment

This is caused by IDEA's CucumberJvm2SMFormatter. It being the formatter for Cucumber2, runs into a breaking change in Cucumber 3.

If you remove --plugin org.jetbrains.plugins.cucumber.java.run.CucumberJvm2SMFormatter from program arguments in the run configuration it will work again. You'll have to do this until InteliJ fixes their plugin.

mpkorstanje on 12 Jun 2018

👍11

All 8 comments

Could you please provide the code you are running and how you are running it, so i cam try tp reproduce? Thanks!

mlvandijk on 11 Jun 2018

Apologies for not adding this earlier. I'm using a feature file that contains scenarios in gherkin. The scenario steps are linked to step definitions. All written in java using cucumber. The tests were all working fine when I was on Cucumber 2.1.0. However, when I upgraded to Cucumber 3.0.2, I got the error message mentioned above. I think it may be related to multiple choices of the same dependency or an interface becoming a class or vice versa. I have included a more expanded version of my pom file below:

   <name>cucumber-jvm-maven</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
            <version>1.16.6</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-java8</artifactId>
            <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
            <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-spring</artifactId>
            <version>${cucumber.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
            <version>1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
            <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.22</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.janino</groupId>
            <artifactId>janino</artifactId>
            <version>2.6.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>${junit.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>${selenium.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
            <version>${selenium.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-remote-driver</artifactId>
            <version>${selenium.version}</version>
        </dependency>
............

ghost on 11 Jun 2018

This is caused by IDEA's CucumberJvm2SMFormatter. It being the formatter for Cucumber2, runs into a breaking change in Cucumber 3.

mpkorstanje on 12 Jun 2018

👍11

Many thanks, it works fine now

ghost on 12 Jun 2018

Please vote https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-192612

tunovic on 21 Jun 2018

When I have updated cucumber plugin from V1.2.4[info.cukes] to V.4.2.2[io.cucumber] With the below code, i am getting error, The import cucumber.api.java.en.Given(Or When/Then) cannot be resolved
POM.XML

io.cucumber
cucumber-core
4.2.2

            <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
            <version>4.2.2</version>
            </dependency>

            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
                <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
                <version>4.2.2</version>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>

            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
                <artifactId>cucumber-jvm-deps</artifactId>
                <version>1.0.6</version>
                <scope>provided</scope>
            </dependency>

            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
                <artifactId>gherkin</artifactId>
                <version>6.0.14</version>
            </dependency>

            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
                <artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
                <version>1.10.19</version>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>

            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
                <artifactId>cucumber-testng</artifactId>
                <version>2.0.0</version>
            </dependency>

            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
                <artifactId>cucumber-picocontainer</artifactId>
                <version>2.1.0</version>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>

RunFile from where execution is starting
@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(features = "classpath:features/functional/",
glue = {"com.jacksparrow.automation.steps_definitions.functional" },
tags = { "@guest_search_in_progress" },
plugin = { "pretty","json:target/cucumber-json/cucumber.json",
"junit:target/cucumber-reports/Cucumber.xml", "html:target/cucumber-reports"},
strict = false,
dryRun = false,
monochrome = true)

public class FunctionalRunCuke {
}

Please suggest, what is the mistake