[RATIS-1878] checkstyle fails with UnsupportedClassVersionError

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0, 2.5.2
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Tsz-wo Sze
• Reporter: Tsz-wo Sze
• Created: 25/Aug/23 17:28
• Updated: 28/Aug/23 07:14
• Resolved: 28/Aug/23 07:14

Description

Currently, we are using checkstyle version 10.9.2, which requires JDK 11 according https://checkstyle.org/.  However, we only require JDK 8 in ratis. When running checkstyle 10.9.2 with JDK 8, it will fails with the error below.

[WARNING] Error injecting: org.apache.maven.plugins.checkstyle.CheckstyleViolationCheckMojo
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AuditListener has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #909