[GROOVY-3851] @Grapes does not work (at least not in Groovy Console)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.6, 1.7-rc-1
• Component/s: Grape
• Environment: Mac OS 10.6.1; Java 1.6.0_15
• Assignee: Roshan Dawrani
• Reporter: Peter Niederwieser
• Created: 27/Oct/09 17:26
• Updated: 23/Nov/09 15:10
• Resolved: 30/Oct/09 15:46

Description

Try this in Groovy Console:

@Grapes(
  [@Grab(group='org.spockframework', module='spock-core', version='0.2'),
  @Grab(group="junit", module="junit", version="4.7")])
class HelloSpock extends Specification {
 def "can you figure out what I'm up to?"() {
   expect:
   name.size() == length

   where:
   name << ["Kirk", "Spock", "Scotty"]
   length << [4, 5, 6]
 }
}

Output:

1 compilation error:

unable to resolve class Specification 
 at line: 1, column: 1

This means that Spock is not on the compile class path. When I @Grab JUnit and Spock individually by introducing a fake class, script works as expected. (Well, not quite. I need to add JUnitCore.run(HelloSpock) because otherwise, the test class is no longer found.)

By the way, if Ivy was fully compatible with Maven, the JUnit @Grab wouldn't be necessary, because JUnit is a mandatory compile-time dependency of Spock. Admittedly, Ivy's transitive dependency resolution is more correct than Maven's, but at the cost of breaking compatibility. Is there a way to tweak this?

Issue Links

• is related to: GROOVY-3861 AST transforms of spock do not take effect when the library is loaded using @Grab