[SQOOP-2120] Sqoop2: Test classes using powermock fails badly when compiling with java target version 1.7

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.99.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.99.6
• Assignee: Jarek Jarcec Cecho
• Reporter: Jarek Jarcec Cecho
• Created: 20/Feb/15 04:04
• Updated: 20/Feb/15 23:48
• Resolved: 20/Feb/15 23:25

Description

I've tried to change bytecode target version to 1.7 and found out that test classes using Powermock are failing quite badly with JDK error:

Bad <init> method call from inside of a branch

Doing a bit of googling turned out that this is a known problem where powermock is doing something fancy that is no longer supported in JDK7.

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25428317/bad-init-method-call-from-inside-of-a-branch
• https://code.google.com/p/powermock/issues/detail?id=504

Recommendation on those sites is to either use -noverify JVM flag or force usage of the old verifier by specifying -XX:-UseSplitVerifier. I feel that the later is a better option, so I would propose to do that.