[GROOVY-4950] ConfigSlurper broken on AppEngine

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.6, 2.1.0-beta-1, 1.8.9
• Environment: AppEngine Java 1.5.2 Production
• Assignee: Guillaume Sauthier
• Reporter: Axel Fontaine
• Created: 27/Jul/11 08:52
• Updated: 28/Dec/12 20:43
• Resolved: 20/Dec/12 05:05

Description

On the production AppEngine environment, ConfigSlurper now breaks in 1.8.1 (This was working in 1.8.0) This makes Groovy 1.8.1 unusable on GAE as it stands!

Exception:

Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Unable to get members for class groovy.util.ConfigObject
	at com.google.appengine.runtime.Request.process-f6979038393db0ef(Request.java)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedClass$3$1.run(CachedClass.java:84)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:34)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedClass$3.initValue(CachedClass.java:81)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedClass$3.initValue(CachedClass.java:79)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.util.LazyReference.getLocked(LazyReference.java:46)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.util.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:33)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedClass.getMethods(CachedClass.java:250)
	at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.populateMethods(MetaClassImpl.java:340)
	at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.fillMethodIndex(MetaClassImpl.java:290)
	at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.initialize(MetaClassImpl.java:2915)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.getMetaClassUnderLock(ClassInfo.java:166)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.getMetaClass(ClassInfo.java:182)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MetaClassRegistryImpl.getMetaClass(MetaClassRegistryImpl.java:242)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.getMetaClass(InvokerHelper.java:751)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.createCallConstructorSite(CallSiteArray.java:71)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCallConstructor(CallSiteArray.java:54)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callConstructor(AbstractCallSite.java:182)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callConstructor(AbstractCallSite.java:190)
	at groovy.util.ConfigSlurper.parse(ConfigSlurper.groovy:160)
...

Note: This error does not occur on the GAE dev server.