[GROOVY-1597] Error message when trying to execute a directory should be improved

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-RC-1
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.2
• Environment: groovy svn head
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Antti Karanta
• Created: 15/Dec/06 08:38
• Updated: 08/Feb/08 01:26
• Resolved: 06/Jan/08 03:08

Description

When trying to execute a directory, e.g.
groovy c:\temp

the error message is not very clear:

org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed, c:\temp: c:\temp (Access is denied)

1 error

What it actually should say is:

c:\temp is a directory and can not be executed

Note that if the patch attached to GROOVY-1596 is not applied, the above results in NPE.