Cobertura : xerces error

[glung]

I tried to run the "mvn clean cobertura:cobertura -P cobertura" on your test project.

It keeps failing with the following error. I tried on both configurations :

• Mac with Mountain Lion -- Java version "1.6.0_51" -- Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 18:31:09+0100)
• CentOs -- java version "1.7.0_03" -- Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; 2013-02-19 14:51:28+0100)

Is this a known issue ?

java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: fFeatures at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:372) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:325) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.ObjectFactory.newInstance(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.ObjectFactory.findJarServiceProvider(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.ObjectFactory.createObject(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.ObjectFactory.createObject(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl.newDocumentBuilder(Unknown Source) at org.robolectric.AndroidManifest.parseAndroidManifest(AndroidManifest.java:118) at org.robolectric.AndroidManifest.getTargetSdkVersion(AndroidManifest.java:259) at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner.pickSdkVersion(RobolectricTestRunner.java:293) at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner.getEnvironment(RobolectricTestRunner.java:267) at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner.access$100(RobolectricTestRunner.java:57) at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner$2.evaluate(RobolectricTestRunner.java:190) at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runNotIgnored(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:79) at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:71) at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:49) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:193) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:52) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:191) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:42) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:184) at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner$1.evaluate(RobolectricTestRunner.java:177) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.execute(JUnit4Provider.java:264) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:153) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:124) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.invokeProviderInSameClassLoader(ForkedBooter.java:200) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:153) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:103)

[glung]

FYI, a colleague told me it actually works with version 2.5.2

[dnkoutso]

2.5.2 of what? Can you provide more info?

[WonderCsabo]

Unfortunately cobertura 2.5.2 did not help me, but i found a working solution.

The root of the error is the xerxesImpl dependency, if we use another version, cobertura can run just fine. To fix the problem you should declare that version:

<dependency>
  <groupId>xerces</groupId>
  <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
  <version>2.7.1</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>