Compatibility with .NET 9

[marcosnsantana]

Team,

At the moment, I'm attempting a migration of Specflow to Reqnroll. It seems that everything is running well, but it looks like the most recent upgrade has still not been made to be compatible with .NET 9, as building the project gives me the dreaded error that was last seen in Specflow when .NET 8 got released:

The "GenerateFeatureFileCodeBehindTask" task failed unexpectedly. System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Reqnroll, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=611ce36403091019' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. File name: 'Reqnroll, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=611ce36403091019' at System.ModuleHandle.ResolveType(RuntimeModule module, Int32 typeToken, IntPtr* typeInstArgs, Int32 typeInstCount, IntPtr* methodInstArgs, Int32 methodInstCount, ObjectHandleOnStack type) at System.ModuleHandle.ResolveTypeHandleInternal(RuntimeModule module, Int32 typeToken, RuntimeTypeHandle[] typeInstantiationContext, RuntimeTypeHandle[] methodInstantiationContext) at System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.ResolveType(Int32 metadataToken, Type[] genericTypeArguments, Type[] genericMethodArguments) at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.FilterCustomAttributeRecord(CustomAttributeRecord caRecord, MetadataImport scope, Assembly& lastAptcaOkAssembly, RuntimeModule decoratedModule, MetadataToken decoratedToken, RuntimeType attributeFilterType, Boolean mustBeInheritable, Object[] attributes, IList derivedAttributes, RuntimeType& attributeType, IRuntimeMethodInfo& ctor, Boolean& ctorHasParameters, Boolean& isVarArg) at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.GetCustomAttributes(RuntimeModule decoratedModule, Int32 decoratedMetadataToken, Int32 pcaCount, RuntimeType attributeFilterType, Boolean mustBeInheritable, IList derivedAttributes, Boolean isDecoratedTargetSecurityTransparent) at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.GetCustomAttributes(RuntimeAssembly assembly, RuntimeType caType) at System.Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(Assembly element, Type attributeType, Boolean inherit) at System.Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(Assembly element, Type attributeType, Boolean inherit) at TechTalk.SpecFlow.Generator.Plugins.GeneratorPluginLoader.LoadPlugin(PluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor) at TechTalk.SpecFlow.Generator.GeneratorContainerBuilder.LoadPlugins(ObjectContainer container, GeneratorPluginEvents generatorPluginEvents, UnitTestProviderConfiguration unitTestProviderConfiguration, IEnumerable1 generatorPlugins)
at TechTalk.SpecFlow.Generator.GeneratorContainerBuilder.CreateContainer(SpecFlowConfigurationHolder configurationHolder, ProjectSettings projectSettings, IEnumerable1 generatorPluginInfos, IObjectContainer parentObjectContainer) at SpecFlow.Tools.MsBuild.Generation.WrappedGeneratorContainerBuilder.BuildGeneratorContainer(SpecFlowConfigurationHolder specFlowConfigurationHolder, ProjectSettings projectSettings, IReadOnlyCollection1 generatorPluginInfos, IObjectContainer rootObjectContainer)
at SpecFlow.Tools.MsBuild.Generation.GenerateFeatureFileCodeBehindTaskExecutor.Execute()
at SpecFlow.Tools.MsBuild.Generation.GenerateFeatureFileCodeBehindTask.Execute()
at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Execute()
at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.d__26.MoveNext()

WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].
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Can anyone point out when the next version that is compatible with .NET 9 will get released? Thanks!``

[obligaron]

Reqnroll supports .NET 9. Two weeks ago, automated validation for .NET 9 was added to CI #326 (note: we didn't have to change anything to support .NET 9, so the current version should support .NET 9).

Looking at the callstack, it looks like SpecFlow is still being used somehow: SpecFlow.Tools.MsBuild.Generation.GenerateFeatureFileCodeBehindTask.
Are you still referencing a SpecFlow package?
Perhaps a look at the csproj would help.

[marcosnsantana]

Thank you very much @obligaron . I noticed I left the Specflow.LivingDoc Plugin package. After I removed it, the issue was gone.

However, to close out this problem, I have a question. Would this have any effect over the LivingDoc functionality through the CLI? On our CI/CD pipelines, we use LivingDoc to generate the test report.

Thanks for the support.

Marcos

[obligaron]

You are likely to encounter some problems.
Unfortunately, LivingDoc is not open source, so it's not possible to fork it.

The community is trying some workarounds, see the discussion at https://github.com/orgs/reqnroll/discussions/68. Maybe one of them will help you.

The community is also working on cucumber messages (https://github.com/orgs/reqnroll/discussions/68 and #233). Support for cucumber messages would allow the use of standardised test report generators.