Why desn't my Pom file work when adding Cucumber: 'cucumber-spring' and 'cucumber-guice'? - maven

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Why dosnt my Pom file work when adding Cucumber: 'cucumber-spring' and 'cucumber-guice'?
My Cucumber project setup works with the following dependencies:
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
<fork>true</fork>
<!--<executable>C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_121\bin\javac.exe</executable> -->
<executable>${env.JAVA_HOME}\bin\javac.exe</executable>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<mainClass>Framework.utilities.SendEmailFile</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.19.1</version>
<!-- <configuration> <suiteXmlFiles> <suiteXmlFile>ncc.xml</suiteXmlFile>
</suiteXmlFiles> <testErrorIgnore>false</testErrorIgnore> <testFailureIgnore>false</testFailureIgnore>
</configuration> -->
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-jvm</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-core</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-html</artifactId>
<version>0.2.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-jvm-deps</artifactId>
<version>1.0.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>gherkin</artifactId>
<version>2.12.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
<artifactId>hamcrest-all</artifactId>
<version>1.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-picocontainer</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-testng</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Adding the following dependencies stops my project from working:
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-spring</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-guice</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5</version>
</dependency>
Any ideas?

Answer 1

it is dependency version issue, you should try lower version of cucumber-spring. use 1.2.4 version or lower version... and update maven project
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-spring</artifactId>
<version>1.2.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-guice</artifactId>
<version>1.2.4</version>
</dependency>

Answer 2

Cucumber exposes an extension mechanism for DI frameworks called cucumber.api.java.ObjectFactory.
If you look at the code of the associated loader method cucumber.runtime.java.ObjectFactoryLoader#loadObjectFactory you will see that it calls cucumber.runtime.Reflections#instantiateExactlyOneSubclass which throws either TooManyInstancesException or NoInstancesException.
It is clear that it needs zero or one public class implementing ObjectFactory and being in the package cucumber.runtime.
The default one is cucumber.runtime.java.DefaultJavaObjectFactory, loaded only if NoInstancesException is thrown (not found through scanning because it is package protected)
cucumber-spring comes with cucumber.runtime.java.spring.SpringFactory
etc.
In your case you must choose among available ones (none/default, Picocontainer, Spring, Guice) which one to use to instanciate stepdefs classes.