[IVY-1412] publication date provided in bad format - random failures - thread safety parsing dates

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0-RC1
• Component/s: Ant

Environment

Windows

• Assignee: Maarten Coene
• Reporter: Martin Sillence
• Created: 28/Feb/13 18:02
• Updated: 26/Mar/14 21:59
• Resolved: 28/Feb/13 22:51

Description

The text appears to be correct and when run though test code is OK but it fails randomly in production.

We are using the ant contrib concurrency foreach task.

I think this is a threading issue:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4146524

Can we add synchronised around this method?

Normally rerunning the build succeeds.

Error log is:
[foreach] Caused by: d:\jenkins\jobs\xxxx\BuildAndPublish.xml:418: publication date provided in bad format. should be yyyyMMddHHmmss and not 20130228123237
[foreach] at org.apache.ivy.ant.IvyTask.getPubDate(IvyTask.java:197)
[foreach] at org.apache.ivy.ant.IvyDeliver.doExecute(IvyDeliver.java:376)

method signature is currenty:
protected static Date getPubDate(String date, Date def) {