PowerMock and Java 8 issue: InterfaceMethodrefInfo cannot be cast to MethodrefInfo

Question

I´m having issues while trying to execute a unit test using PowerMock with Mockito. I need PowerMockito to mock an static method.

These are the versions I´m using:

Answer 1

Yes, that was the problem. PowerMock has a dependency to javassist, so I just had to exclude that transitive dependency in my pom and later include the dependency to the fixed version of javassist. And that worked for me. Thanks!

Answer 2

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.javassist</groupId>
        <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
        <version>3.22.0-GA</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.powermock</groupId>
        <artifactId>powermock-module-junit4</artifactId>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.javassist</groupId>
                <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>

Answer 3

A Red Herring?

When I ran into this issue during Android development, I was a single test to an existing file.

Removing the test and re-adding one line at a time, I found that the underlying issue had to do with how TreeSet and its comparator were being instantiated.

YMMV.

Answer 4

Following Francisco González's answer, this is what I had to do :

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.powermock</groupId>
    <artifactId>powermock-module-junit4</artifactId>
    <version>1.5.5</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.javassist</groupId>
                <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>      
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.javassist</groupId>
    <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
    <version>3.20.0-GA</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>