org.mockito.internal.matchers.LocalizedMatcher cannot be cast to org.mockito.ArgumentMatcher with "any" matcher when running "activator test" - scala

Question

I'm having an error in one of my specs2 tests. The project is implemented with Play!Framework (Scala).
This is my test:
class AmazonEmailSenderSpec extends Specification with Mockito {
"AmazonEmailSenderSpec#sendEmail" should {
"Send Email with correct data" in {
val client = mock[AmazonSimpleEmailServiceAsyncClient]
val emailSender = new AmazonEmailSender(client)
emailSender.sendEmail(Email(subject, content, from, to, cc))
val captor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(classOf[SendEmailRequest])
there was one(client).sendEmail(captor.capture)
val sendEmailRequest: SendEmailRequest = captor.getValue
}
}
}
This test works fine if I run it on intellij, but somehow, it fails when I run it on the console using the play activator:
activator test
I get:
[info] AmazonEmailSenderSpec#sendEmail should
[error] ! Send Email with correct data
[error] org.mockito.internal.matchers.LocalizedMatcher cannot be cast to org.mockito.ArgumentMatcher (ArgumentsComparator.java:25)
[error] org.mockito.internal.invocation.ArgumentsComparator.argumentsMatch(ArgumentsComparator.java:25)
[error] org.mockito.internal.invocation.ArgumentsComparator.argumentsMatch(ArgumentsComparator.java:17)
[error] org.mockito.internal.invocation.InvocationMatcher.matches(InvocationMatcher.java:56)
[error] org.mockito.internal.invocation.InvocationsFinder$RemoveNotMatching.isOut(InvocationsFinder.java:145)
[error] org.mockito.internal.invocation.InvocationsFinder$RemoveNotMatching.isOut(InvocationsFinder.java:137)
[error] org.mockito.internal.util.collections.ListUtil.filter(ListUtil.java:16)
[error] org.mockito.internal.invocation.InvocationsFinder.findInvocations(InvocationsFinder.java:20)
[error] org.mockito.internal.verification.checkers.MissingInvocationChecker.check(MissingInvocationChecker.java:32)
[error] org.mockito.internal.verification.Times.verify(Times.java:36)
[error] org.mockito.internal.verification.MockAwareVerificationMode.verify(MockAwareVerificationMode.java:21)
[error] org.mockito.internal.handler.MockHandlerImpl.handle(MockHandlerImpl.java:76)
[error] org.mockito.internal.handler.NullResultGuardian.handle(NullResultGuardian.java:29)
[error] org.mockito.internal.handler.InvocationNotifierHandler.handle(InvocationNotifierHandler.java:37)
[error] org.mockito.internal.creation.bytebuddy.MockMethodInterceptor.doIntercept(MockMethodInterceptor.java:36)
[error] org.mockito.internal.creation.bytebuddy.MockMethodInterceptor.access$000(MockMethodInterceptor.java:17)
[error] org.mockito.internal.creation.bytebuddy.MockMethodInterceptor$DispatcherDefaultingToRealMethod.interceptSuperCallable(MockMethodInterceptor.java:96)
[error] com.amazonaws.services.simpleemail.AmazonSimpleEmailServiceAsyncClient$MockitoMock$1778874818.sendEmail(Unknown Source)
[error] integration.email.AmazonEmailSenderSpec$$anonfun$1$$anonfun$apply$11$$anonfun$apply$12.apply(AmazonEmailSenderSpec.scala:27)
[error] integration.email.AmazonEmailSenderSpec$$anonfun$1$$anonfun$apply$11$$anonfun$apply$12.apply(AmazonEmailSenderSpec.scala:27)
[error] integration.email.AmazonEmailSenderSpec$$anonfun$1$$anonfun$apply$11.apply(AmazonEmailSenderSpec.scala:27)
[error] integration.email.AmazonEmailSenderSpec$$anonfun$1$$anonfun$apply$11.apply(AmazonEmailSenderSpec.scala:19)
I can't understand why a LocalizedMatcher is being used by activator when an ArgumentMatcher should be used instead.
The signature to the method I'm trying to match is:
public SendEmailResult sendEmail(SendEmailRequest sendEmailRequest)
Couldn't really find any hints on google. Any ideas? Am I missing something really silly?

Answer 1

This is an old question, but I just happened to run into the same issue in 2017:
A solution that worked for me (JUnit/Specs2, in a mixed Java/Scala) project:
I forced mockito to use the latest version 2.7.11. But I also had a dependency on org.specs2:specs2-mock_2.12:3.8.6 which is still based on mockito 1.9.5. See maven central.
Somewhere here lies the problem. I removed the dependency on specs2-mock and Specs2's mockito syntax sugar and replaced it with plain mockito code. Voila! The error mentioned above was gone.