FlutterTestRunner error when opening a project in new IDE instance

[frankbe]

Please file this bug report at https://github.com/flutter/flutter-intellij/issues/new.

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What happened

The error occurred just when I opened a project (which does not use flutter at all) in new IDE instance.

Version information

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1.3 • Flutter plugin io.flutter 86.0.2 • Dart plugin 251.26927.39

No Flutter sdk configured.

Exception

null

java.lang.Throwable: [FlutterTestRunner]: Parent node id should be defined: TestStartedEvent{name='', running=true}.
	at com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger.error(Logger.java:375)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.GeneralTestEventsProcessor.logProblem(GeneralTestEventsProcessor.java:362)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.GeneralTestEventsProcessor.logProblem(GeneralTestEventsProcessor.java:348)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.GeneralIdBasedToSMTRunnerEventsConvertor.findValidParentNode(GeneralIdBasedToSMTRunnerEventsConvertor.java:197)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.GeneralIdBasedToSMTRunnerEventsConvertor.createNode(GeneralIdBasedToSMTRunnerEventsConvertor.java:150)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.GeneralIdBasedToSMTRunnerEventsConvertor.doStartNode(GeneralIdBasedToSMTRunnerEventsConvertor.java:142)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.GeneralIdBasedToSMTRunnerEventsConvertor.onTestStarted(GeneralIdBasedToSMTRunnerEventsConvertor.java:110)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter.fireOnTestStarted(OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter.java:130)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter$MyServiceMessageVisitor.visitTestStarted(OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter.java:414)
	at jetbrains.buildServer.messages.serviceMessages.TestStarted.visit(TestStarted.java:62)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter.processServiceMessage(OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter.java:123)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter.processServiceMessages(OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter.java:117)
	at io.flutter.test.DartTestEventsConverterZ.doProcessServiceMessages(DartTestEventsConverterZ.java:153)
	at io.flutter.test.DartTestEventsConverterZ.handleStart(DartTestEventsConverterZ.java:404)
	at io.flutter.test.DartTestEventsConverterZ.process(DartTestEventsConverterZ.java:180)
	at io.flutter.test.DartTestEventsConverterZ.processEventText(DartTestEventsConverterZ.java:141)
	at io.flutter.test.DartTestEventsConverterZ.processServiceMessages(DartTestEventsConverterZ.java:117)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter.processConsistentText(OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter.java:101)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter$1.onTextAvailable(OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter.java:70)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.OutputEventSplitter.onTextAvailableInternal(OutputEventSplitter.kt:81)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.OutputEventSplitter.onTextAvailable(OutputEventSplitter.kt:76)
	at com.intellij.smRunner.OutputEventSplitterBase.flushInternal(OutputEventSplitterBase.kt:162)
	at com.intellij.smRunner.OutputEventSplitterBase.flushInternal$default(OutputEventSplitterBase.kt:148)
	at com.intellij.smRunner.OutputEventSplitterBase.processInternal(OutputEventSplitterBase.kt:96)
	at com.intellij.smRunner.OutputEventSplitterBase.process(OutputEventSplitterBase.kt:77)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.OutputEventSplitter.process(OutputEventSplitter.kt:61)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.runner.OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter.process(OutputToGeneralTestEventsConverter.java:96)
	at com.intellij.execution.testframework.sm.SMTestRunnerConnectionUtil$2.onTextAvailable(SMTestRunnerConnectionUtil.java:214)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.ProcessHandler$2.onTextAvailable(ProcessHandler.java:292)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.ProcessHandler.notifyTextAvailable(ProcessHandler.java:223)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.ColoredProcessHandler.coloredTextAvailable(ColoredProcessHandler.java:68)
	at io.flutter.utils.MostlySilentColoredProcessHandler.coloredTextAvailable(MostlySilentColoredProcessHandler.java:75)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.AnsiEscapeDecoder.processTextChunk(AnsiEscapeDecoder.java:106)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.AnsiEscapeDecoder.escapeText(AnsiEscapeDecoder.java:69)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.ColoredProcessHandler.notifyTextAvailable(ColoredProcessHandler.java:57)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.BaseOSProcessHandler$SimpleOutputReader.onTextAvailable(BaseOSProcessHandler.java:133)
	at com.intellij.util.io.BaseOutputReader.sendText(BaseOutputReader.java:220)
	at com.intellij.util.io.BaseOutputReader.processInput(BaseOutputReader.java:204)
	at com.intellij.util.io.BaseOutputReader.readAvailableBlocking(BaseOutputReader.java:151)
	at com.intellij.util.io.BaseDataReader.readAvailable(BaseDataReader.java:72)
	at com.intellij.util.io.BaseDataReader.doRun(BaseDataReader.java:153)
	at com.intellij.util.ConcurrencyUtil.runUnderThreadName(ConcurrencyUtil.java:249)
	at com.intellij.util.io.BaseDataReader.lambda$start$0(BaseDataReader.java:48)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:572)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:317)
	at com.intellij.util.concurrency.ChildContext$runInChildContext$1.invoke(propagation.kt:102)
	at com.intellij.util.concurrency.ChildContext$runInChildContext$1.invoke(propagation.kt:102)
	at com.intellij.util.concurrency.ChildContext.runInChildContext(propagation.kt:108)
	at com.intellij.util.concurrency.ChildContext.runInChildContext(propagation.kt:102)
	at com.intellij.util.concurrency.ContextRunnable.run(ContextRunnable.java:27)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1144)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:642)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$PrivilegedThreadFactory$1$1.run(Executors.java:735)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$PrivilegedThreadFactory$1$1.run(Executors.java:732)
	at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:400)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$PrivilegedThreadFactory$1.run(Executors.java:732)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583)

[emir9922]

Yes I have this problem when I create new flutter project screen is freezing I can't close the Android Studio the screen only says loading and the files are not loaded.I can't create project.How can I fix that ?

[jwren]

Dup of #8233

[helomri]

@jwren It's actually a different issue and not a duplicate, I came to the conclusion that the error was a direct cause of the tests not working too early, the two are not related (although recent changes in the deprecation of Observatory could have to do with this one too)

So, this error just makes IntelliJ not display the tree of tests as it is invalid (hence the error). This is mostly cosmetic, the only lost feature that I know of is that you cannot isolate each test's log messages. The amount of succeeded, failed and skipped tests is still correctly reported to the user.