[OFBIZ-10693] ‘./gradlew generateOfbizDocumentation’ fails with Gradle 5.0

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Trunk
• Component/s: framework
• Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
• Reporter: Mathieu Lirzin (Inactive)
• Created: 05/Dec/18 15:38
• Updated: 11/Jan/22 09:36
• Resolved: 12/Apr/19 20:59

Description

We recently upgraded Gradle 3.2.1 → 5.0. The ./gradlew generateOfbizDocumentation command fails with the following stacktrace

> Task :deleteOfbizDocumentation

> Task :generateOfbizDocumentation FAILED
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.<clinit>(InvokerHelper.java:86)
	at groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport.getDefaultMetaClass(GroovyObjectSupport.java:59)
	at groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport.<init>(GroovyObjectSupport.java:32)
	at groovy.lang.Reference.<init>(Reference.java:38)
	at org.asciidoctor.gradle.backported.AsciidoctorJavaExec.main(AsciidoctorJavaExec.groovy:188)
Caused by: groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Conflicting module versions. Module [groovy-all is loaded in version 2.5.4 and you are trying to load version 2.4.7
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MetaClassRegistryImpl$DefaultModuleListener.onModule(MetaClassRegistryImpl.java:523)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.m12n.ExtensionModuleScanner.scanExtensionModuleFromProperties(ExtensionModuleScanner.java:87)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.m12n.ExtensionModuleScanner.scanExtensionModuleFromMetaInf(ExtensionModuleScanner.java:81)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.m12n.ExtensionModuleScanner.scanClasspathModulesFrom(ExtensionModuleScanner.java:63)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.m12n.ExtensionModuleScanner.scanClasspathModules(ExtensionModuleScanner.java:55)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MetaClassRegistryImpl.<init>(MetaClassRegistryImpl.java:124)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MetaClassRegistryImpl.<init>(MetaClassRegistryImpl.java:85)
	at groovy.lang.GroovySystem.<clinit>(GroovySystem.java:36)
	... 5 more

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':generateOfbizDocumentation'.
> Process 'command '/gnu/store/w41g4n182c7qxaaq77jyrgdqifzzpvsp-icedtea-3.7.0-jdk/bin/java'' finished with non-zero exit value 1

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BUILD FAILED in 1s
2 actionable tasks: 2 executed

It seems that the AsciiDoctor Gradle Plugin is failing because Groovy 2.5.4 is now used by Gradle instead of Groovy 2.4.7
I would be nice to work around this issue instead of downgrading Gradle.

Issue Links

• is broken by: OFBIZ-9972 Find an alternative suitable syntax for OFBiz rule tasks in gradle
• is related to: OFBIZ-10694 Generating Asciidoc documentation fails
• is required by: OFBIZ-10700 Use the Gradle Plugin DSL