Why FancordionRunner suiteSetup is not being called?

Question

I am following MyFancordionRunner example from Fancordion v1.0.4 official documentation to test a BedSheet application, but the suiteSetup method (see below) is not being called and the server remains null, causing the fixture tests to fail with a NullPointerException.

override Void suiteSetup() {
    super.suiteSetup
    server = BedServer(AppModule#.pod).addModule(WebTestModule#).startup
}

Looking at FancordionRunner source code, the runFixture(Obj fixtureInstance) method should be invoking suiteSetup() the first time a Fixture is run as per this piece of code...

FixtureResult runFixture(Obj fixtureInstance) {
    ...
    locals := Locals.instance
    firstFixture := (locals.originalRunner == null) 
    if (firstFixture) {
        locals.originalRunner = this
        suiteSetup()
        ...
}

But for some reason in my case the condition (locals.originalRunner == null) must be returning false, causing the suiteSetup() invocation to be skipped. It seems that this piece of code uses Fantom Actors which I'm not familiar with.

I am manually invoking the suiteSetup within MyFancordionRunner like this:

override Void fixtureSetup(Obj fixtureInstance) {
    if (server == null) suiteSetup         
    ...

This workaround solves the NullPointerException issue and allows the fixtures to run successfully but I don't know if this workaround is defeating the purpose of the Actor logic, which I presume is meant to invoke suiteSetup only once.

Can anyone explain what could be going on here that is preventing the suiteSetup method from being called within runFixture(...), please?

Answer 1

I don't know what's going on here without seeing a lot more code.

The only part of Actor being used is Actor.locals() which is really just a pot to hold thread local variables - as it is assumed that all tests are run in the same thread.

As you shown, the logic in runFixture() is pretty simple, are you sure it is being called?