[GROOVY-9584] CLONE - Error when creation a variable named "context"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-1, 3.0.5, 2.5.13
• Component/s: Groovysh
• Environment: Tested on windows XP SP3.
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Enio Salgado Pereira
• Created: 10/Jun/20 00:19
• Updated: 23/Jul/20 14:16
• Resolved: 10/Jun/20 00:28

Description

it looks like when we create a variable with name "context" we break the shell.

To reproduce the error just create a variable called "context" and not will work.

If you set the context variable to null it will work again.

Example bellow.

Groovy Shell (1.6.0, JVM: 1.6.0_07)
Type 'help' or '\h' for help.
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groovy:000> //this works
===> true
groovy:000> a = 1
===> 1
groovy:000> //after this, error!!
===> true
groovy:000> context = "context"
===> context
ERROR org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.GroovyCastException: Cannot cast
object 'context' with class 'java.lang.String' to class 'groovy.lang.Binding'
at java_lang_Runnable$run.call (Unknown Source)
groovy:000> a = 1
===> 1
ERROR org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.GroovyCastException: Cannot cast
object 'context' with class 'java.lang.String' to class 'groovy.lang.Binding'
at java_lang_Runnable$run.call (Unknown Source)
groovy:000> purge all
ERROR org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.GroovyCastException: Cannot cast
object 'context' with class 'java.lang.String' to class 'groovy.lang.Binding'
at java_lang_Runnable$run.call (Unknown Source)
groovy:000>

Issue Links

• is a clone of: GROOVY-3456 Error when creation a variable named "context"