GITHUB- - Failsafe parameter.toString

CHANGES.txt

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ Fixed: GITHUB-2800: Running Test Classes with Inherited @Factory and @DataProvid
 New: Ability to provide custom error message for assertThrows\expectThrows methods (Anatolii Yuzhakov)
 Fixed: GITHUB-2780: Use SpotBugs instead of abandoned FindBugs
 Fixed: GITHUB-2801: JUnitReportReporter is too slow
-Fixed: GITHUB-2807: buildStackTrace should be fail-safe
+Fixed: GITHUB-2807: buildStackTrace should be fail-safe (Sergey Chernov)
+Fixed: GITHUB-2830: TestHTMLReporter parameter toString should be fail-safe (Sergey Chernov)
 Fixed: GITHUB-2798: Parallel executions coupled with retry analyzer results in duplicate retry analyzer instances being created (Krishnan Mahadevan)
 
 7.6.1

testng-core/src/main/java/org/testng/reporters/TestHTMLReporter.java

@@ -123,7 +123,20 @@ public static void generateTable(
           if (j > 0) {
             pw.append(", ");
           }
-          pw.append(parameters[j] == null ? "null" : parameters[j].toString());
+          if (parameters[j] == null) {
+            pw.append("null");
+          } else {
+            String parameterToString;
+            try {
+              parameterToString = parameters[j].toString();
+            } catch (RuntimeException | Error e) {
+              log(e.toString());
+              // failover in case parameter toString() cannot be evaluated
+              parameterToString =
+                  parameters[j].getClass().getName() + "@" + System.identityHashCode(parameters[j]);
+            }
+            pw.append(parameterToString);
+          }
         }
       }
 

testng-core/src/test/java/org/testng/reporters/TestHTMLReporterTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package org.testng.reporters;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
+
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import org.testng.ITestClass;
+import org.testng.ITestNGMethod;
+import org.testng.ITestResult;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+import org.testng.internal.TestResult;
+
+public class TestHTMLReporterTest {
+
+  @Test(description = "GITHUB-2830")
+  public void generateTableParametersToStringShouldBeFailsafe() {
+    ITestClass testClass = mock(ITestClass.class);
+    when(testClass.getName()).thenReturn("testClass");
+
+    ITestNGMethod testNGMethod = mock(ITestNGMethod.class);
+    when(testNGMethod.getMethodName()).thenReturn("testMethod");
+    when(testNGMethod.getTestClass()).thenReturn(testClass);
+
+    TestResult testResult = TestResult.newEmptyTestResult();
+    testResult.setMethod(testNGMethod);
+
+    testResult.setParameters(new Object[] {new ThrowingOnToString()});
+
+    List<ITestResult> tests = Collections.singletonList(testResult);
+
+    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
+    PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw, true);
+    TestHTMLReporter.generateTable(pw, "title", tests, "cssClass", (t1, t2) -> 0);
+
+    assertThat(sw.toString())
+        .contains("Parameters: org.testng.reporters.TestHTMLReporterTest$ThrowingOnToString@");
+  }
+
+  private static class ThrowingOnToString {
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+      throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot calculate toString");
+    }
+  }
+}