[SUREFIRE-362] SurefireBooter does not recognise the Properties sent by SurefirePlugin

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Component/s: TestNG support
• Environment: Maven 2.0.7, Surefire SVN revision 587921, TestNG 4.7, 5.5
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tibor Adam Varga
• Created: 24/Oct/07 11:19
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:54
• Resolved: 20/Nov/07 17:26

Description

The SurefirePlugin defines the new way of configuring TestNG by means of a Properties object. This object is passed to the SurefireBooter but it fails to recognise it.

[INFO] [surefire:test]
[INFO] Surefire report directory: /Users/tibvarga/work/test/project/target/surefire-reports
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown parameter type: java.util.Properties
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.constructParamObjects(SurefireBooter.java:817)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.main(SurefireBooter.java:872)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Attached is a project demonstrating the issue and a patch that resolves it, although in my view quite an ugly one.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: SUREFIRE-363 The maven-surefire-plugin fails with a NoSuchMethodException.