Why does listDependencies target fail, and why are incomplete stacktraces printed with -S option?

JVD66 · June 10, 2015, 3:33pm

Good day -
I’m trying to obtain the list of dependencies of a very large gradle project maintained by someone else.
The project builds OK by running ‘./gradlew’ , but the command ‘./gradlew listDependencies’ always fails.
It is configured to use gradle 1.12 , but I get the same error when running ‘gradle listDependencies’, where
gradle in $PATH resolves to gradle-2.4/bin/gradle (latest gradle release) - both versions produce this
stacktrace when run with the ‘-d -S’ option :


16:15:51.089 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
16:15:51.090 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] 
16:15:51.090 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] * Where:
16:15:51.090 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] Build file '${REDACTED}/build.gradle' line: 11
16:15:51.090 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] 
16:15:51.090 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] * What went wrong:
16:15:51.091 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] A problem occurred evaluating root project '$REDACTED'.
16:15:51.091 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] > org.gradle.api.tasks.compile.Compile
16:15:51.091 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] 
16:15:51.092 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] * Exception is:
16:15:51.092 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] org.gradle.api.GradleScriptException: A problem occurred evaluating root project '$REDACTED'.
16:15:51.092 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptRunnerFactory$ScriptRunnerImpl.run(DefaultScriptRunnerFactory.java:76)
16:15:51.092 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultScriptPluginFactory$ScriptPluginImpl$1.run(DefaultScriptPluginFactory.java:148)
16:15:51.093 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultScriptPluginFactory$ScriptPluginImpl.apply(DefaultScriptPluginFactory.java:156)
16:15:51.093 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.configuration.project.BuildScriptProcessor.execute(BuildScriptProcessor.java:39)
16:15:51.093 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.configuration.project.BuildScriptProcessor.execute(BuildScriptProcessor.java:26)
16:15:51.093 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.configuration.project.ConfigureActionsProjectEvaluator.evaluate(ConfigureActionsProjectEvaluator.java:34)
16:15:51.094 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.evaluate(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:55)
16:15:51.094 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.evaluate(AbstractProject.java:487)
16:15:51.094 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.evaluate(AbstractProject.java:85)
16:15:51.094 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.execution.TaskPathProjectEvaluator.configureHierarchy(TaskPathProjectEvaluator.java:42)
16:15:51.094 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultBuildConfigurer.configure(DefaultBuildConfigurer.java:35)
16:15:51.095 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:129)
16:15:51.095 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuild(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:106)
16:15:51.095 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:86)
16:15:51.095 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter$DefaultBuildController.run(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:90)
16:15:51.096 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ExecuteBuildActionRunner.run(ExecuteBuildActionRunner.java:28)
16:15:51.096 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.exec.ChainingBuildActionRunner.run(ChainingBuildActionRunner.java:35)
16:15:51.096 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:41)
16:15:51.096 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:28)
16:15:51.096 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.exec.DaemonUsageSuggestingBuildActionExecuter.execute(DaemonUsageSuggestingBuildActionExecuter.java:50)
16:15:51.097 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.exec.DaemonUsageSuggestingBuildActionExecuter.execute(DaemonUsageSuggestingBuildActionExecuter.java:27)
16:15:51.097 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.RunBuildAction.run(RunBuildAction.java:40)
16:15:51.097 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.internal.Actions$RunnableActionAdapter.execute(Actions.java:169)
16:15:51.097 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:237)
16:15:51.097 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:210)
16:15:51.098 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.JavaRuntimeValidationAction.execute(JavaRuntimeValidationAction.java:35)
16:15:51.098 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.JavaRuntimeValidationAction.execute(JavaRuntimeValidationAction.java:24)
16:15:51.098 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:206)
16:15:51.098 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:169)
16:15:51.099 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:33)
16:15:51.099 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:22)
16:15:51.099 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.Main.doAction(Main.java:33)
16:15:51.099 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.EntryPoint.run(EntryPoint.java:45)
16:15:51.099 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.runNoExit(ProcessBootstrap.java:54)
16:15:51.100 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.run(ProcessBootstrap.java:35)
16:15:51.100 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:23)
16:15:51.100 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.gradle.api.tasks.compile.Compile
16:15:51.100 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at com.synchronoss.gradle.core.java.JavaPlugin$_apply_closure2.class$(JavaPlugin.groovy)
16:15:51.101 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at com.synchronoss.gradle.core.java.JavaPlugin$_apply_closure2.$get$$class$org$gradle$api$tasks$compile$Compile(JavaPlugin.groovy)
16:15:51.101 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at com.synchronoss.gradle.core.java.JavaPlugin$_apply_closure2.doCall(JavaPlugin.groovy:20)
16:15:51.101 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.ClosureBackedAction.execute(ClosureBackedAction.java:67)
16:15:51.101 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.util.ConfigureUtil.configure(ConfigureUtil.java:130)
16:15:51.101 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.util.ConfigureUtil.configure(ConfigureUtil.java:91)
16:15:51.102 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.configure(AbstractProject.java:819)
16:15:51.102 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.configure(AbstractProject.java:824)
16:15:51.102 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.allprojects(AbstractProject.java:811)
16:15:51.102 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.Project$allprojects$1.call(Unknown Source)
16:15:51.103 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at com.synchronoss.gradle.core.java.JavaPlugin.apply(JavaPlugin.groovy:19)
16:15:51.103 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at com.synchronoss.gradle.core.java.JavaPlugin.apply(JavaPlugin.groovy)
16:15:51.103 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.ImperativeOnlyPluginApplicator.applyImperative(ImperativeOnlyPluginApplicator.java:35)
16:15:51.103 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.RuleBasedPluginApplicator.applyImperative(RuleBasedPluginApplicator.java:43)
16:15:51.103 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultPluginManager.doApply(DefaultPluginManager.java:144)
16:15:51.104 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultPluginManager.apply(DefaultPluginManager.java:112)
16:15:51.104 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.applyType(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:113)
16:15:51.104 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.access$200(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:36)
16:15:51.104 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction$3.run(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:80)
16:15:51.104 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.execute(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:136)
16:15:51.105 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractPluginAware.apply(AbstractPluginAware.java:46)
16:15:51.105 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.plugins.PluginAware$apply.call(Unknown Source)
16:15:51.105 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at com.synchronoss.gradle.core.java.JarPlugin.apply(JarPlugin.groovy:11)
16:15:51.105 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at com.synchronoss.gradle.core.java.JarPlugin.apply(JarPlugin.groovy)
16:15:51.106 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.ImperativeOnlyPluginApplicator.applyImperative(ImperativeOnlyPluginApplicator.java:35)
16:15:51.106 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.RuleBasedPluginApplicator.applyImperative(RuleBasedPluginApplicator.java:43)
16:15:51.106 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultPluginManager.doApply(DefaultPluginManager.java:144)
16:15:51.106 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultPluginManager.apply(DefaultPluginManager.java:112)
16:15:51.106 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.applyType(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:113)
16:15:51.107 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.access$200(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:36)
16:15:51.107 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction$3.run(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:80)
16:15:51.107 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.execute(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:136)
16:15:51.107 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractPluginAware.apply(AbstractPluginAware.java:46)
16:15:51.108 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.plugins.PluginAware$apply.call(Unknown Source)
16:15:51.108 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at com.synchronoss.gradle.all.AllCorePlugins.apply(AllCorePlugins.groovy:22)
16:15:51.108 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at com.synchronoss.gradle.all.AllCorePlugins.apply(AllCorePlugins.groovy)
16:15:51.108 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.ImperativeOnlyPluginApplicator.applyImperative(ImperativeOnlyPluginApplicator.java:35)
16:15:51.108 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.RuleBasedPluginApplicator.applyImperative(RuleBasedPluginApplicator.java:43)
16:15:51.109 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultPluginManager.doApply(DefaultPluginManager.java:144)
16:15:51.109 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultPluginManager.apply(DefaultPluginManager.java:112)
16:15:51.109 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.applyType(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:113)
16:15:51.109 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.access$200(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:36)
16:15:51.110 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction$3.run(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:80)
16:15:51.110 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.execute(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:136)
16:15:51.110 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractPluginAware.apply(AbstractPluginAware.java:46)
16:15:51.110 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.plugins.PluginAware$apply.call(Unknown Source)
16:15:51.110 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.ProjectScript.apply(ProjectScript.groovy:34)
16:15:51.111 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.api.Script$apply$0.callCurrent(Unknown Source)
16:15:51.111 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at build_7m9qwnppexmd11bzj4dw3u95x.run(/home/${REDACTED}/build.gradle:11)
16:15:51.111 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptRunnerFactory$ScriptRunnerImpl.run(DefaultScriptRunnerFactory.java:74)
16:15:51.111 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter]        ... 35 more
16:15:51.112 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] 
16:15:51.112 [LIFECYCLE] [org.gradle.BuildResultLogger] 
16:15:51.112 [LIFECYCLE] [org.gradle.BuildResultLogger] BUILD FAILED

Why, when I supplied the -S / --stacktrace option, does gradle still truncate the stacktrace ?

Can anyone suggest a method to list the dependencies of this project that might actually succeed ?

I’m now having to download the gradle source, and load gradle into a debugger with the ‘-d -S listDependencies’ arguments in the
current working directory of the project in order to debug why gradle is unable to produce a dependency list . I will share the results
when I have them, but is there any known workaround for the above issue ? Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong ?

JVD66 · June 10, 2015, 6:21pm

OK, I had to download and build the source for gradle-1.12 , and go through some contortions of the gradlew script to run gradle
with debugging enabled, and then break at the line marked with an asterisk :

// @ ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java (sic) , line 34: private GradleException executeActions(TaskInternal task, TaskStateInternal state) { logger.debug("Executing actions for {}.", task); for (Action<? super Task> action : task.getActions()) { state.setDidWork(true); task.getStandardOutputCapture().start(); try { action.execute(task); } catch (StopActionException e) { // Ignore logger.debug("Action stopped by some action with message: {}", e.getMessage()); } catch (StopExecutionException e) { logger.info("Execution stopped by some action with message: {}", e.getMessage()); break; } catch (Throwable t) { * return new TaskExecutionException(task, t); } finally { task.getStandardOutputCapture().stop(); } } return null; } }

Then I had to ‘step into’ the call to new TaskExecutionException(task, t), in TaskExcecutionException.java, which finally, after hours of
struggle, enabled me to see the error message in ‘Throwable t’ (cause) :
’ Usage: listDependencies -PmoduleNames=spike,spike-api-server,spike-api-client’
my project has no modules named ‘spike*’ .
I am assuming I have to give listDependencies a complete list of all the modules in the project (there are over 100 of them) ?
Why can’t it determine the modules list for itself ?
It would have saved me a few hours work today if gradle had simply printed the cause to standard error:
System.err.println(cause) ;
But no, the cause of the exception is not printed or logged anywhere by gradle.
Nor is the gradle documentation much help - it does not say anywhere that I can find that ‘listDependencies’ does
not work without a ‘-Pmodule=’ argument for each module.

mark_vieira · June 23, 2015, 5:27am

This ‘listDependencies’ task you are referring to is not a standard Gradle task and therefore wouldn’t be found in our documentation. It’s likely defined as an ad-hoc task in one of your build scripts, which would make it inherently difficult to debug since the error is likely being thrown by some anonymous closure.