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NCrunch 3.13.0.7 gives intermittent UnexpectedArgumentMatcherException errors
rdavis
#1 Posted : Monday, March 12, 2018 10:53:42 AM(UTC)
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After upgrading to NCrunch 3.13.0.7, I'm getting regular occurrences of an UnexpectedArgumentMatcherException. They're occurring at most once per test run, and the exception message is like this:

Quote:
SetUp : NSubstitute.Exceptions.UnexpectedArgumentMatcherException : Argument matchers (Arg.Is, Arg.Any) should only be used in place of member arguments. Do not use in a Returns() statement or anywhere else outside of a member call.
Correct use:
sub.MyMethod(Arg.Any<string>()).Returns("hi")
Incorrect use:
sub.MyMethod("hi").Returns(Arg.Any<string>())


Re-running the test always clears the exception.

However, none of my tests use Arg.Any inside a Returns method call. An example line that produces this exception is

Code:
_mockDateTimeProvider.UtcNow.Returns(_defaultDateTime);

where _mockDateTimeProvider is an object created by AutoFixture, and _defaultDateTime is a static DateTime object.

Is there perhaps something else causing these exceptions, or is this an issue in the 3.13.0.7 version of NCrunch?

Thanks!
Remco
#2 Posted : Tuesday, March 13, 2018 4:53:12 AM(UTC)
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Hi, thanks for sharing this issue.

Does the exception appear with any consistent stack trace? Are you able to get a debugger on it?

(NCrunch itself has no integration with NSubstitute).
rdavis
#3 Posted : Tuesday, March 13, 2018 8:46:24 AM(UTC)
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Thanks for the reply. I found that this issue was raised on StackOverflow a while ago - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38283104.

In our case, a couple of tests were using AutoFixture's fixture.Create<T1>() method to build an object, and then passing Arg.Any<T2>() as a parameter in a method call on this object. This causes NSubstitute's static queue to get out-of-sync, as explained well here: https://weareadaptive.co.../09/30/why-nsubstitute/

Replacing these parameters with fixture.Create<T2>() fixed the issue.

So this was not a problem with NCrunch, but some change between 3.12.0.15 and 3.13.0.7 made this problem more likely to be visible. But that's a good thing!
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