[GROOVY-571] Groovy fails to complie against latest Xalan 2.6.0

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-6
• Fix Version/s: 1.1-beta-1
• Environment: j2sdk1.4.2_05 + Xalan-2.6.0 in JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/endorsed on WinXP
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Jacob Kjome
• Created: 12/Jul/04 02:12
• Updated: 03/Mar/07 03:51
• Resolved: 03/Mar/07 03:51

Description

There are some groovy tests that are failing because they are referencing a method in Xalan that was, apparently, removed in more recent versions than Groovy is declaring as a dependency. The tests are...

groovy.xml.NameSpaceDOMTest
groovy.xml.SAXTest
groovy.xml.SmallNamespaceDOMTest
groovy.xml.VerboseDOMTest
groovy.xml.XmlTest

They all fail (have errors) with (common part of stacktrace)...

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.xalan.templates.OutputProperties.getIntProperty(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/util/Properties;)I
at org.apache.xalan.serialize.SerializerToXML.init(SerializerToXML.java:408)
at org.apache.xalan.serialize.SerializerToXML.init(SerializerToXML.java:538)
at groovy.xml.TestXmlSupport.createSerializer(TestXmlSupport.java:76)
at groovy.xml.TestXmlSupport.dump(TestXmlSupport.java:63)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ReflectionMetaMethod.invoke(ReflectionMetaMethod.java:63)
at groovy.lang.MetaClass.doMethodInvoke(MetaClass.java:1117)
at groovy.lang.MetaClass.invokeMethod(MetaClass.java:307)
at gjdk.groovy.lang.MetaClass_GroovyReflector.invoke(MetaClass_GroovyReflector.java)
at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.invoke(MetaMethod.java:110)
at groovy.lang.MetaClass.doMethodInvoke(MetaClass.java:1117)
at groovy.lang.MetaClass.invokeMethod(MetaClass.java:307)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:143)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.invokeMethod(InvokerHelper.java:106)

This just goes to show that maybe the developers ought to be keeping up on the versions. Here are some examples (first column is what Groovy-core project.xml declares, second is the latest version of that library)....

asm-1.4.1 | asm-1.4.3
asm-util-1.4.1 | asm-util-1.4.3
xerces-2.4.0 | xerces-2.6.2
xml-apis-1.0.b2 | xml-apis-1.2.01

Actually, Xalan isn't declared as a dependency. This must assume that JDk1.4+ is being used to compile Groovy. Either way, might want to verify that Groovy is using a forward compatible way to use Xalan in order to work with more recent versions than the old buggy versions that are included in the JDK.

Jake