Stack size too large when tests started from IntelliJ 2017.2

[yackx]

Issue description

The units tests in our Grails 3.2.6 project with Spock have stopped working when launched from IntelliJ 2017.2.5 (right-click on the test folder, Run as unit tests). Exception with Stack size too large message appears, tests won't start.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.VerifyError: (class: our/projects/SomeNiceSpec, method: $spock_feature_1_3 signature: ()V) Stack size too large
	at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701)
	at java.lang.Class.privateGetMethodRecursive(Class.java:3048)
	at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:3018)
	at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1784)
	at org.junit.internal.builders.SuiteMethodBuilder.hasSuiteMethod(SuiteMethodBuilder.java:18)
	at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit46ClassesRequestBuilder.collectWrappedRunners(JUnit46ClassesRequestBuilder.java:75)
	at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit46ClassesRequestBuilder.getClassesRequest(JUnit46ClassesRequestBuilder.java:47)
	at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4TestRunnerUtil.buildRequest(JUnit4TestRunnerUtil.java:89)
	at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:46)
	at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.IdeaTestRunner$Repeater.startRunnerWithArgs(IdeaTestRunner.java:47)
	at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:242)
	at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:70)

Process finished with exit code 1
Empty test suite.

How to reproduce

• It was working fine until a benign change that has nothing to do with the failing our/projects/SomeNiceSpec was merged to the codebase.
• The test involved is fairly simple, and uses the same boring testing pattern found widely in the rest of the app.
• The tests still work fine when launched by Gradle (:server:cleanTest :server:test with --tests *) but fail when launched from the IJ (appear under JUnit in the Run/Debug Configuration dialog box).
• I cannot reproduce the code here as it's my customer property, and anyways it would not allow you to reproduce the issue unless it'd make a large project available.
• I do not have a simple reproducible sequence - sorry, again, it stopped working when unrelated code was added.

No influence:

• IJ specific version; I've tested with 2017.2.6 and 2017.2.5
• JDK specific version; I've tested with 8u121 and 8u152-zulu

Workaround

We noticed that by removing the first and: declaration in the following test, it worked again:

void "save train (...)"() {
    given:
    dataset.uniqueCompanyDataset.withTrainParkingSpendingPlan()

    and: // remove this line and it works again
    def info = new ConfigCompanySpendingPlanInfoListItem(
            language: Language.fr,
            text: 'train parking fr',
            moreInfoUrl: 'http://unbox.work/fr/more',
            termsAndConditionsUrl: 'http://unbox.work/fr/terms'
    )

    and:
    mockLoggedInUser(service, dataset.uniqueEmployee)

    when: "you save the info"
    service.saveInfo(info)

    then:
    thrown(TenantAccessException)
}

I realize this is not much to work on but at least Google may lead you here and this workaround may apply to you.

Additional Environment information

IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.5
Build #IU-172.4343.14, built on September 26, 2017
JRE: 1.8.0_152-release-915-b12 x86_64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Mac OS X 10.12.6

IJ launch command (super long classpath truncated):

/Users/youri/.sdkman/candidates/java/8u152-zulu/bin/java -ea -Didea.test.cyclic.buffer.size=66560000 "-javaagent:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/idea_rt.jar=53440:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/bin" -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath "/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/idea_rt.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/junit/lib/junit-rt.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/plugins/junit/lib/junit5-rt.jar:.......:/Users/youri/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.3.2/commons-lang3-3.3.2.jar" com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter -ideVersion5 @w@/private/var/folders/xw/bnk1k9jn3knfbdzmqpqz_xcm0000gn/T/idea_working_dirs_junit.tmp @/private/var/folders/xw/bnk1k9jn3knfbdzmqpqz_xcm0000gn/T/idea_junit.tmp -socket53439

See Also

#58

[leonard84]

As already said in #58 it seems to be an Intellij issue, could you please file a bug at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/IDEA

[slavabedr]

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-190064