dexcache == null error

This issue from the old google code project: https://code.google.com/p/dexmaker/issues/detail?id=2 is still valid as of the released 1.2 version

Java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: dexcache == null (and no default could be found; consider setting the 'dexmaker.dexcache' system property)
at com.google.dexmaker.DexMaker.generateAndLoad(DexMaker.java:359)
at com.google.dexmaker.stock.ProxyBuilder.buildProxyClass(ProxyBuilder.java:252)
at com.google.dexmaker.mockito.DexmakerMockMaker.createMock(DexmakerMockMaker.java:51)
at org.mockito.internal.util.MockUtil.createMock(MockUtil.java:41)
...

However, I verified that it has been fixed in the current github repository (last commit March 12th 2015 - ca74669):

• git clone https://github.com/crittercism/dexmaker.git
• cd dexmaker
• mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true
• cp -R ~/.m2/repository/com/google/dexmaker $ANDROID_HOME/extras/android/m2repository/com/google
• and then update project dependency to 1.3-SNAPSHOT

It would be nice to have a 1.3 release so that we can take the workaround lines out of the test setUp() methods: System.setProperty(“dexmaker.dexcache”, getContext().getCacheDir().getPath());

Thanks!

[vaughandroid]

@mjohenneken Thanks! Adding the dexmaker-dx dependency worked for me. 👍

[AnthonyUccello]

Hey guys I found a workaround for this that works:

https://comadeblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/dexcachenull-for-mockito-on-robolectric/comment-page-1/

Basically use 1.9 version of Mockito:

compile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.9.0'