[arquillian-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (ARQ-296) Arquilian should fail gracefully when no container is present

Arquilian should fail gracefully when no container is present ------------------------------------------------------------- Key: ARQ-296 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-296 Project: Arquillian Issue Type: Bug Components: Deployable Containers SPI Affects Versions: 1.0.0.Alpha4 Reporter: Dan Allen Fix For: 1.0.0.Beta1 Currently, if a container is not on the classpath when the test suite is executed, Arquillian fails with a NullPointerException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.DeployableTestBuilder.build(DeployableTestBuilder.java:88) at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.DeployableTestBuilder.build(DeployableTestBuilder.java:77) at org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian.<init>(Arquillian.java:93) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.buildRunner(AnnotatedBuilder.java:31) at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.runnerForClass(AnnotatedBuilder.java:24) at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:57) at org.junit.internal.builders.AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.runnerForClass(AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.java:29) Arquillian should instead fail the test, reporting that no container implementation is present on the classpath.