java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.mockito.Mockito.spy(Mockito.java:1715)

Recently I was working on unit testing with mockito and junit.  While setting up the environment and running my first test, i ended up with the following stacktrace.

Stacktrace

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: net.bytebuddy.dynamic.DynamicType$Builder$MethodDefinition$ImplementationDefinition.intercept(Lnet/bytebuddy/implementation/Implementation;)Lnet/bytebuddy/dynamic/DynamicType$Builder$MethodDefinition$ReceiverTypeDefinition;
	at org.mockito.internal.creation.bytebuddy.SubclassBytecodeGenerator.mockClass(SubclassBytecodeGenerator.java:52)
	at org.mockito.internal.creation.bytebuddy.TypeCachingBytecodeGenerator$CachedBytecodeGenerator.getOrGenerateMockClass(TypeCachingBytecodeGenerator.java:87)
	at org.mockito.internal.creation.bytebuddy.TypeCachingBytecodeGenerator.mockClass(TypeCachingBytecodeGenerator.java:34)
	at org.mockito.internal.creation.bytebuddy.SubclassByteBuddyMockMaker.createMockType(SubclassByteBuddyMockMaker.java:64)
	at org.mockito.internal.creation.bytebuddy.SubclassByteBuddyMockMaker.createMock(SubclassByteBuddyMockMaker.java:35)
	at org.mockito.internal.creation.bytebuddy.ByteBuddyMockMaker.createMock(ByteBuddyMockMaker.java:22)
	at org.mockito.internal.util.MockUtil.createMock(MockUtil.java:35)
	at org.mockito.internal.MockitoCore.mock(MockitoCore.java:63)
	at org.mockito.Mockito.spy(Mockito.java:1715)
	at com.programtalk.learn.java.mockito.MockitoSpyExample.buildSpy(MockitoSpyExample.java:28)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:50)
	at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
	at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
	at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:24)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:325)
	at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:78)
	at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:57)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
	at org.mockito.internal.runners.SilentJUnitRunner.run(SilentJUnitRunner.java:39)
	at org.mockito.internal.runners.StrictRunner.run(StrictRunner.java:35)
	at org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner.run(MockitoJUnitRunner.java:104)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:86)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:459)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:675)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:382)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:192)

Maven dependency

Then I started to look at the the dependencies of mockito and found out that mockito use byte-buddy. And while looking at my pom file which was shown below:


 <dependencies>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
		<artifactId>byte-buddy</artifactId>
		<version>1.0.3</version>
	</dependency>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
		<artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
		<version>4.1</version>
	</dependency>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
		<artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
		<version>2.2.7</version>
	</dependency>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>junit</groupId>
		<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
		<version>4.12</version>
		<scope>test</scope>
	</dependency>
 </dependencies>

 Solution

So upgrading byte-buddy was the solution to this issue. I switched byte-buddy to 1.4.33. Never received this error again.

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