Error: there is no registered task type 'karate'. Did you miss installing an extension that provides a corresponding task provider?

[luismaria-hernandez]

Hi! I'm having this error after executing the individual tests and I have no idea of how to solve this. This is what the output brings up in the console on VS Code:

Error: there is no registered task type 'karate'. Did you miss installing an extension that provides a corresponding task provider?

This is the line that indicates where the error is at:

Executing task: mvn clean test-compile -f "<Project Directory>\myproject\pom.xml" exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.intuit.karate.cli.Main" -Dexec.args="<Project Directory>\HomePage.feature:7" -Dexec.classpathScope="test"

And this one is the error, apparently:

22:56:27.235 [com.intuit.karate.cli.Main.main()] INFO  com.intuit.karate - Karate version: 1.4.1
java.nio.file.InvalidPathException: Illegal char <:> at index 69: <Project Directory>\HomePage.feature:7

I've looked everywhere and I found no answer yet. Hope someone could help me out here. Thank you!

[kirksl]

@luismaria-hernandez Can you confirm if you are having this issue with earlier versions of Karate. I would try versions before 1.4.1 and maybe try our sample repository here which uses an older version of Karate too https://github.com/kirksl/karate-maven-gradle

[luismaria-hernandez]

Hi Kirk!, sorry for the delay. I've tried downloading the 1.2.0 jar version for the runner but the problem persists.

14:28:54.801 [com.intuit.karate.cli.Main.main()] INFO  com.intuit.karate - Karate version: 1.2.0
java.nio.file.InvalidPathException: Illegal char <:> at index 69: <Directory of the project>\HomePage.feature:7

[kirksl]

Hi @luismaria-hernandez

Can you try our sample project https://github.com/kirksl/karate-maven-gradle. We use this project for testing the Karate Runner plugin. If this does not work then you will need to open a ticket with https://github.com/karatelabs/karate

[luismaria-hernandez]

Hi @kirksl

I've executed the test on the sample project and it seems that there's a problem with the plugin. I executed the command mvn clean test and it exploded. Shall I proceed to create the ticket?

[INFO]
[INFO] Results:
[INFO]
[ERROR] Failures:
[ERROR]   KarateRunner.testParallel:31 status code was: 200, expected: 201, response time in milliseconds: 3, url: http://localhost:50002/order, response:
{"id":2,"content":"Sending order from '[email protected]' and to '[email protected]'..."}
classpath:org/company/order.feature:25
status code was: 200, expected: 201, response time in milliseconds: 3, url: http://localhost:50002/order, response:
{"id":4,"content":"Sending order from '[email protected]' and to '[email protected]'..."}
classpath:org/company/order.feature:31
driver config / start failed: start failed, options: {type=chrome, target=null}
classpath:org/company/ui.feature:5 ==> expected: <0> but was: <3>
[INFO]
[ERROR] Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  26.224 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2024-05-20T23:37:32-03:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.22.2:test (default-test) on project karate-maven-gradle: There are test failures.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Please refer to C:\<Project Directory>\karate-maven-gradle\target\surefire-reports for the individual test results.
[ERROR] Please refer to dump files (if any exist) [date].dump, [date]-jvmRun[N].dump and [date].dumpstream.
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

[kirksl]

@luismaria-hernandez Can you confirm this is what your test results look like. This project creates expected test failures.

[luismaria-hernandez]

@kirksl The error in my computer doesn't look like the one you're showing, I'll go into this in detail. If I run all the test on the feature file by writing the command mvn test, it works as expected, the problem comes when I want to run the test individually. To do so, I have to click on this option on the settings menu.

Afterwords, click on Karate: Run

A new terminal is opened and the test encounters an error

As you can see, there are not red dots on the karate icon on the left

[kirksl]

@luismaria-hernandez Thank you for all of the details. I am unable to reproduce your issue. I haven't seen any other users having this issue as well.

Running mvn clean test in your command line should be tested first to ensure Maven and Karate are both installed properly. This has nothing to do with the Karate Runner plugin in VSCode. It sounds like you did that and this is working for you.

After you have confirmed your tests are running successfully on the command line then if you are still having trouble like you are showing with missing a registered task type, you might have multiple extensions installed that are trying to register karate as a type? I'll need more details to help you solve this like what extensions you have installed, if you are running VSCode locally or in the cloud, etc.

You shouldn't need to set Override Karate Runner to run individual tests by the way.

[luismaria-hernandez]

@kirksl Hi! I'm running VS code locally. The extensions that I've installed are: Extension Pack for Java (Java runner disabled), The karate plug in and Cucumber (Gherkin) full support. In my computer I've also installed Maven, Git, Node JS and Yarn. This is supposed to be required to run Karate tests, and according to the documentation (https://github.com/karatelabs/karate), the following dependency is the only one that I need to run tests with the framework.

[kirksl]

@luismaria-hernandez That should be correct. What ${karate.version} are you using?

If you want to try and duplicate my setup to see if that solves your problem below are the steps I would try.

1. Clear your maven and gradle cache and downloads under your ~ or %userprofile% directory

2. Install the version of Java I am using
   java --version
   java 11.0.20 2023-07-18 LTS
   Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11.0.20+9-LTS-256)
   Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (build 11.0.20+9-LTS-256, mixed mode)

3. Install the VSCode I am using (Help > About menu)
   Version: 1.89.1 (user setup)
   Commit: dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685
   Date: 2024-05-07T05:13:33.891Z
   Electron: 28.2.8
   ElectronBuildId: 27744544
   Chromium: 120.0.6099.291
   Node.js: 18.18.2
   V8: 12.0.267.19-electron.0
   OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

4. Install only the VSCode extensions I am using (see image)
   

5. Git clone karate-maven-gradle repo
   git clone https://github.com/kirksl/karate-maven-gradle.git

6. Open karate-maven-gradle in VSCode and goto Karate Runner activity on left to show reports and tests

7. Run all tests from the command line
   mvnw clean test

8. All tests should run and you should have results showing like this (see image)
   

9. Open a test file like order.feature and run a test by clicking Karate: Run codelens

10. The test should run and show results (see image)