[GROOVY-1263] Potentially misleading error message

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-5
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-RC-1
• Component/s: parser
• Environment: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger ; JDK 1.5.0_06 ; Groovy CVS HEAD
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Dr. Russel Winder
• Created: 08/Mar/06 01:41
• Updated: 25/Nov/06 05:29
• Resolved: 25/Nov/06 05:29

Description

The script:

#! /usr/bin/env groovy

def factorial ( x )

{ 1 }

class Factorial_Test extends GroovyTestCase {
void test_zero ( )

{ assertEquals ( factorial ( 0 ) , 1 ) }

}

results in the error message:

Caught: BUG! exception in phase 'conversion' in source unit 'Tests/Factorial_Test.groovy' Error: duplicate class declaration for name: Factorial_Test and class: org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode@cec0c5[name: Factorial_Test]

I understand why the message (declared class name the same as the file constructed class name) but I am not sure this is obvious to the casual Groovy user.