Exceptions thrown in steps get swallow in the IDEA runner (not SBT)

[Toby Weston]

Hello,

If we have the following self-contained immutable Specification, an exception is thrown in the setup (a step) but when run in IntelliJ IDEA, it wont get reported and our test continues.

Any ideas how we can either get stopOnFail working for steps or any other mechanism for handling exception on setup?

Thanks

import org.specs2.Specification

import org.specs2.specification.dsl.GWT

import org.specs2.specification.script.StandardDelimitedStepParsers

class StepExceptionsDontFailTest extends Specification with GWT with StandardDelimitedStepParsers {

  def is = {

    stopOnFail ^ s2"""

        Do exceptions get logged          $throwException

        or will my test make assertions?  $assert

      """

  }

  def throwException = step {

    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Hello you!")

    "Bob"

  }

  def assert = {

    true must_== true

  }

}

[etorreborre]

Hi Toby,

The Intellij issue looks like an incomplete implementation of the NotifierPrinter that is used to report results for IDEA. I'll fix this tomorrow.

Then what you want for your step is to use .stopOnError on it because "stopOnFail" as an argument is only supposed to fail if there are failures before a step:

  def throwException = step {

    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Hello you!")

    "Bob"

  }.stopOnError

Eric.

[Toby Weston]

Great stuff. Thanks very much.