Custom plugin jar META-INF/gradle-plugins properties file not found Error

Warren · November 2, 2011, 8:54am

I’m creating a custom plugin. Following the docs I have created the class, add the META-INF/gradle-plugins .properties file, built and installed to my local .m2 repo. Now testing in another project I have defined it in the build script as: buildscript {

repositories {

mavenLocal()

}

dependencies {

classpath group: ‘com.spindrift’, name: ‘spindrift-gradle-plugins’, version: ‘0.1-SNAPSHOT’

} }

//apply plugin: ‘spindrift-gradle-plugins’ project.plugins.apply(‘spindrift-gradle-plugins’)

but when executing the build it throws:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

Where: Build file ‘/Users/warren/Documents/workspace/TestMyScripts/build.gradle’ line: 13
What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating root project ‘TestMyScripts’. Cause: java.io.FileNotFoundException: JAR entry META-INF/gradle-plugins/spindrift-gradle-plugins.properties not found in /Users/warren/.m2/repository/com/spindrift/spindrift-gradle-plugins/0.1-SNAPSHOT/spindrift-gradle-plugins-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

But when I unjar that snapshot it exists correctly. The path to the snapshot is valid and the path to the .properties is valid.

Any ideas why it can’t see/access the file - permissions are not a problem I think. I am using Gradle 1.0-milestone-5

Szczepan_Faber · November 13, 2011, 10:03am

I suspect a typo in the path

To avoid plugin id resolving and move forward you can apply plugin by class:

apply plugin: com.foo.bar.MyPlugin

Hope that helps!

Warren · November 14, 2011, 7:27am

No typo

Problem is resolved. Some more digging led me to a bug in JDK1.4

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6207022 and it seems its similar behaviour. I have 2 windows 1 - I am building an installing the plugin to my local .m2 (this works fine) 2 - I am calling and testing in a test project. So it fails sometimes. If I delete the .m2 entry and install again then it works fine, although sometime the gradle daemon fails so I have to run gradle -stop as well. So cleanest sequence is 1. delete from .m2 repo 2. gradle install (from 1) 3. gradle build (or whatever) from 2)

Warren · November 14, 2011, 7:28am

Just to be clear I’m not using 1.4 its just similar behaviour … I’m on 1.6 latest and m5

dlethin · December 10, 2011, 12:36pm

I had a similar problem as you with the same error message. Took me a while to track it down, but in my case it was the gradle daemon that was the problem. Killing and restarting the daemon resolved the issue. What seems to be happening is that the daemon has the class loaded, but if the original file changes, the daemon gets all confused.

luke_daley · December 12, 2011, 12:45pm

Hi Warren,

Can you please confirm that you are using the Gradle daemon. If so, then I’m pretty sure that the JDK issue you found is the culprit. If this is the case I think we can workaround this in Gradle.

Warren · December 13, 2011, 4:15am

Hi Luke, Yes I am using the daemon. I normally have 2 window one for running gradle install with the maven plugin to push the new version to my .m2 repo. Then in the second I have the demo project and I do whatever gradle . If that task is from the plugin I have just updated it normally always fails. So the easiest path to this is I just stop the daemon then call my task again. If I don’t stop the daemon I get the FNFE. This is development on the Mac with version 1.6.0_29 tx

luke_daley · December 13, 2011, 10:14pm

I’ve turned this into a problem to be solved.

luke_daley · December 14, 2011, 12:21pm

Warren, can you please run with the -s option (show full stacktrace) and put the stacktrace here.

Warren · December 15, 2011, 9:11am

Note: the Gradle build daemon is an experimental feature. As such, you may experience unexpected build failures. You may need to occasionally stop the daemon.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

Where: Build file ‘/Users/warren/Documents/workspace/ProjectBuildReference/build.gradle’ line: 30
What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating root project ‘ProjectBuildReference’. Cause: java.io.FileNotFoundException: JAR entry META-INF/gradle-plugins/SpindriftCommonPlugin.properties not found in /Users/warren/.m2/repository/com/spindrift/tools/gradle/plugins/SpindriftCommonPlugin/0.1-SNAPSHOT/SpindriftCommonPlugin-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
Try: Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
Exception is: org.gradle.api.GradleScriptException: A problem occurred evaluating root project ‘ProjectBuildReference’.

at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptRunnerFactory$ScriptRunnerImpl.run(DefaultScriptRunnerFactory.java:54)

at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultScriptPluginFactory$ScriptPluginImpl.apply(DefaultScriptPluginFactory.java:127)

at org.gradle.configuration.BuildScriptProcessor.evaluate(BuildScriptProcessor.java:38)

at org.gradle.configuration.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.evaluate(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:43)

at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.evaluate(AbstractProject.java:474)

at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.evaluate(AbstractProject.java:73)

at org.gradle.configuration.ProjectEvaluationConfigurer.execute(ProjectEvaluationConfigurer.java:23)

at org.gradle.configuration.ProjectEvaluationConfigurer.execute(ProjectEvaluationConfigurer.java:21)

at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultBuildConfigurer$1.execute(DefaultBuildConfigurer.java:38)

at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultBuildConfigurer$1.execute(DefaultBuildConfigurer.java:35)

at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.configure(AbstractProject.java:450)

at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.allprojects(AbstractProject.java:445)

at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultBuildConfigurer.configure(DefaultBuildConfigurer.java:35)

at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:141)

at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuild(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:112)

at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:80)

at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExecuteBuildAction.run(ExecuteBuildAction.java:45)

at org.gradle.launcher.exec.DefaultGradleLauncherActionExecuter.execute(DefaultGradleLauncherActionExecuter.java:49)

at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ExecuteBuild.doBuild(ExecuteBuild.java:41)

at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.BuildCommandOnly.execute(BuildCommandOnly.java:34)