[GROOVY-5354] Problems embedding groovyConsole

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.6
• Component/s: Groovy Console
• Environment: MATLAB MacOSX Snow Leopard
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: ML
• Created: 08/Mar/12 07:40
• Updated: 21/Jul/13 07:58
• Resolved: 21/Jul/13 07:58

Description

On Mac Snow Leopard with MATLAB releases prior to R2012a, groovy.ui.Console() gives class not found errors.
This seems to occur on UNIX systems generally - not on Windows. The originating exception is

java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.prefs.AbstractPreferences.node(Unknown Source)
at java.util.prefs.AbstractPreferences.node(Unknown Source)
at java.util.prefs.Preferences.userNodeForPackage(Unknown Source)
at java_util_prefs_Preferences$userNodeForPackage.call(Unknown Source)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:42)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:108)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:116)

at groovy.ui.Console.<clinit>(Console.groovy:77)
... 3 more

or
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.prefs.AbstractPreferences.node(AbstractPreferences.java:817)
at java.util.prefs.AbstractPreferences.node(AbstractPreferences.java:800)
at java.util.prefs.Preferences.userNodeForPackage(Preferences.java:358)
at java_util_prefs_Preferences$userNodeForPackage.call(Unknown Source)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:40)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:117)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:125)
at groovy.ui.Console.<clinit>(Console.groovy:66)
... 60 more