[GROOVY-3079] groovysh does not run when CLASSPATH includes embeddable/groovy-all.jar

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.6
• Fix Version/s: 1.6-rc-1, 1.5.8, 1.7-beta-1
• Component/s: Groovysh
• Environment: Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Roshan Dawrani
• Reporter: The Brain
• Created: 08/Oct/08 15:12
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:43
• Resolved: 07/Dec/08 13:32

Description

groovysh does not run when CLASSPATH includes embeddable/groovy-all.jar. groovy, groovyc, and groovyConsole work fine.

$ echo $CLASSPATH

$ groovysh
Groovy Shell (1.5.6, JVM: 1.5.0_16-133)
Type 'help' or '\h' for help.
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groovy:000> \q

$ export CLASSPATH=$GROOVY_HOME/embeddable/groovy-all-1.5.6.jar

$ groovysh
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.codehaus.groovy.tools.GroovyStarter.rootLoader(GroovyStarter.java:101)
at org.codehaus.groovy.tools.GroovyStarter.main(GroovyStarter.java:130)
Caused by: org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.GroovyCastException: Cannot cast object 'org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.util.HelpFormatter@d4f27' with class 'org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.util.HelpFormatter' to class 'org.apache.commons.cli.HelpFormatter'
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.DefaultTypeTransformation.castToType(DefaultTypeTransformation.java:340)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.setProperty(MetaClassImpl.java:1997)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.setProperty(MetaClassImpl.java:2591)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.setProperties(MetaClassImpl.java:1291)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeConstructor(MetaClassImpl.java:1268)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeConstructor(MetaClassImpl.java:1185)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.invokeConstructorOf(InvokerHelper.java:809)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.invokeNewN(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:230)
at org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.Main.main(Main.groovy:43)

Issue Links

• is related to: GROOVY-6426 groovysh not running using the groovy-all jar