[MPMD-142] PMD Report for maven site fails with ClassCastException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7
• Fix Version/s: 2.7.1
• Environment: Maven 2.2.1, Jenkins 1.424.1, Linux RHEL 5
• Assignee: Dennis Lundberg
• Reporter: Jan Ruzicka
• Created: 06/Feb/12 10:11
• Updated: 15/May/22 15:21
• Resolved: 07/Feb/12 00:23

Description

Maven 2.2.1 is complaining when mvn site is run.
It is stopping in PMD report.
Section from log is below.
This error appeared freshly this morning. The site goal run successfully before.

[INFO] Generating "PMD Report" report.
[WARNING] Deprecated API called - not org.apache.maven.doxia.sink.Sink instance and no SinkFactory available. Please update this plugin.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.io.File
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.io.File
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.pmd.AbstractPmdReport.getFilesToProcess(AbstractPmdReport.java:284)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.pmd.PmdReport.generateReport(PmdReport.java:249)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.pmd.PmdReport.execute(PmdReport.java:175)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.pmd.PmdReport.executeReport(PmdReport.java:149)
	at org.apache.maven.reporting.AbstractMavenReport.generate(AbstractMavenReport.java:190)
	at org.apache.maven.reporting.AbstractMavenReport.generate(AbstractMavenReport.java:144)
	at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.ReportDocumentRenderer.renderDocument(ReportDocumentRenderer.java:139)
	at org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DefaultSiteRenderer.renderModule(DefaultSiteRenderer.java:269)
	at org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DefaultSiteRenderer.render(DefaultSiteRenderer.java:101)
	at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.SiteMojo.renderLocale(SiteMojo.java:133)
	at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.SiteMojo.execute(SiteMojo.java:100)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:490)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:556)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:535)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:348)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:180)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:60)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)