Could not initialize plugin: interface org.mockito.plugins.MockMaker

Question

I'm getting following exception once tests is started:

    Testcase: treeCtorArgumentTest(com.xythos.client.drive.cachedtree.CachedTreeTest):  Caused an ERROR
Could not initialize plugin: interface org.mockito.plugins.MockMaker
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not initialize plugin: interface org.mockito.plugins.MockMaker
    at org.mockito.internal.configuration.plugins.PluginLoader$1.invoke(PluginLoader.java:66)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy7.isTypeMockable(Unknown Source)
    at org.mockito.internal.util.MockUtil.typeMockabilityOf(MockUtil.java:29)
    at org.mockito.internal.util.MockCreationValidator.validateType(MockCreationValidator.java:22)
    at org.mockito.internal.creation.MockSettingsImpl.validatedSettings(MockSettingsImpl.java:168)
    at org.mockito.internal.creation.MockSettingsImpl.confirm(MockSettingsImpl.java:162)
    at org.mockito.internal.MockitoCore.mock(MockitoCore.java:64)
    at org.mockito.Mockito.mock(Mockito.java:1687)
    at org.mockito.Mockito.mock(Mockito.java:1600)
    at com.xythos.client.drive.cachedtree.CachedTreeTest.setUp(CachedTreeTest.java:51)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/bytebuddy/dynamic/loading/ClassLoadingStrategy
    at org.mockito.internal.creation.bytebuddy.SubclassByteBuddyMockMaker.<init>(SubclassByteBuddyMockMaker.java:33)
    at org.mockito.internal.creation.bytebuddy.ByteBuddyMockMaker.<init>(ByteBuddyMockMaker.java:22)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
    at org.mockito.internal.configuration.plugins.PluginLoader.loadPlugin(PluginLoader.java:54)
    at org.mockito.internal.configuration.plugins.PluginRegistry.<init>(PluginRegistry.java:18)
    at org.mockito.internal.configuration.plugins.Plugins.<clinit>(Plugins.java:17)
    at org.mockito.internal.util.MockUtil.<clinit>(MockUtil.java:24)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.bytebuddy.dynamic.loading.ClassLoadingStrategy
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)

This is my test:

package com.xythos.client.drive.cachedtree;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.junit.MockitoJUnitRunner;

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)

    public class CachedTreeTest {

        public CachedTreeTest() {
        }

        @Test
        public void treeCtorArgumentTest() {
        somemock m = mock(SomeClass.class);
        }
    }

I'm using NetBeans 8.2. I've downloaded mockito-core-2.7.0.jar, and then I select "Test Libraries"->"Add Jar" and added mockito-core-2.7.0.jar.

Classpath and everything looks ok, I',m still getting exception.

Any advice?

Answer 1

If you are using powermock ensure that your dependencies point to:

org.powermock:powermock-api-mockito2

instead of

org.powermock:powermock-api-mockito