Error while compiling the JIRA 4.4.4 source code

[J Thomas]

Note: This appears similar to but not the same as https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/23081/error-while-compiling-the-jira-4-4-3-source-code.

I'm following these instructions

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Using+the+Atlassian+Plugin+SDK+with+a+Source+Code+License to compile the 4.4.4 source code.

I've fixed proxy issues and various missing file errors and now it trundles on until it tries to build the Bamboo plugin where I'm seeing a new error that is not accompanied by a missing file error. I'm new to Maven and not familiar with how to track down and fix this sort of error. This is the end of the log:

[INFO] Manifest validated
[INFO] [amps:jar]
[INFO] [jar:jar]
[INFO] Building jar: D:\work\In-house\JIRA\jira-source\atlassian-jira-4.4.4-source\jira-bamboo-plugin\target\jira-bamboo-plugin-4.3.2.jar
[INFO] [amps:generate-obr-artifact]
[INFO] [bundle:install-file {execution: virtual-execution}]
[INFO] Parsing file:/D:/work/In-house/JIRA/jira-source/atlassian-jira-4.4.4-source/jira-bamboo-plugin/target/obr/obr.xml
[INFO] Installing jira-bamboo-plugin-4.3.2.jar
[INFO] Writing OBR metadata
[INFO] Building jar: D:\work\In-house\JIRA\jira-source\atlassian-jira-4.4.4-source\jira-bamboo-plugin\target\jira-bamboo-plugin-4.3.2.obr
[INFO] [amps:test-jar]
[INFO] Preparing source:jar
[WARNING] Removing: jar from forked lifecycle, to prevent recursive invocation.
[INFO] No goals needed for project - skipping
[INFO] [source:jar {execution: attach-sources}]
[INFO] Building jar: D:\work\In-house\JIRA\jira-source\atlassian-jira-4.4.4-source\jira-bamboo-plugin\target\jira-bamboo-plugin-4.3.2-sources.jar
[INFO] [antrun:run {execution: generate-integration-test-config}]
[INFO] Executing tasks
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] An Ant BuildException has occured: taskdef class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.PropertyFile cannot be found

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 28 minutes 6 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Jan 30 15:20:35 GMT 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 477M/494M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've found the offending class in my repository under \org\apache\ant\ant-nodeps\1.8.1\ant-nodeps-1.8.1.jar - what do I need to do to tell Maven where it is or to copy it to wherever it is that Maven's looking for it?

[J Thomas · Accepted solution]

Thanks to James for his help offline. Here's how I eventually got it working:

1) Edit atlassian-jira-4.4.4-source\jira-bamboo-plugin\pom.xml: add

<version>1.7</version>

to the maven-antrun-plugin as per James' answer;

replace

<taskdef name="propertyfile" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.PropertyFile" classpathref="maven.plugin.classpath" />

with

<taskdef name="propertyfile" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.PropertyFile" classpath="${settings.localRepository}/org/apache/ant/ant/1.8.2/ant-1.8.2.jar" />

and replace

                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>ant</groupId>
                        <artifactId>ant-nodeps</artifactId>
                        <version>1.6.5</version>
                    </dependency>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>ant</groupId>
                        <artifactId>ant-optional</artifactId>
                        <version>1.5.2</version>
                    </dependency>

with

                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
                        <artifactId>ant</artifactId>
                        <version>1.8.2</version>
                    </dependency>

2) You'll get another build failure because it can't download FLEX. So get the swc file from one of the zips in http://code.google.com/p/fxspy/downloads/list and install it using

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.flexspy.flex3 -DartifactId=flexspy -Dversion=1.3 -Dpackaging=swc -Dfile=/path/to/file

3) I got permgen memory errors - the recommended MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx512m wasn't enough so I used

MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m

[William Crighton _CCC_]

This was *EXTREMELY* handy for me tonight...doing emergency debugging on the workflow manager trying to determine why I can no longer create issues via the API with a cross system migrator. Needed to add some additional debug lines into the JIRA source to help uncover the problem.

Thank you so much!

-wc

William Crighton

[tier-0 grump]

So, having set up a clean environment and just run this I can cerify that it is indeed broken, and it is due to the bug I referenced above, you can see more information about this bug here :

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Antrun+Plugin

The solution is to make sure all uses of the antrun plugin use the same dependencies apparently, but so far I've had little joy in getting it to work. Watch this space though, as i will find a fix...

[tier-0 grump]

So I've raised a bug - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-27024 complete with workarounds. The simplest workaround is to simply change the classpath to point to an ant.jar (but you must use version 1.7 of the plugin to do this). So open up <source folder>/jira-bamboo-plugin.xmla and find the antrun plugin and edit it to reflect something like below:

artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
     <executions>
          <execution>
               <id>generate-integration-test-config</id>
                ...
                            <tasks>
                                 ...
                                <touch file="${project.build.directory}/test-classes/localtest.properties" mkdirs="true" />
                                <taskdef name="propertyfile" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.PropertyFile" classpath="/tmp/lib/ant-1.8.2.jar" />

[tier-0 grump]

There is a bug with the maven 2 that affects antrun - see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MANTRUN-51 - we tend to always use mqven 2.1 to build JIRA, you can easily see your version by issuing mvn -version - this is the version I use

Apache Maven 2.1.0 (r755702; 2009-03-19 06:10:27+1100)

and you can get it from http://archive.apache.org/dist/maven/binaries/apache-maven-2.1.0-bin.zip

If that's not the problem, then I'm a little stumped - try running with the -e switch to see if you get more informative error messages

[J Thomas]

Here's what I get:

J:\>%ATLAS_MVN_HOME%\mvn -version
Apache Maven 2.1.0 (r755702; 2009-03-18 19:10:27+0000)
Java version: 1.6.0_20
Java home: C:\Jira3envt\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\jre
Default locale: en_GB, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows xp" version: "5.1" arch: "x86" Family: "windows"

I'm just using what's bundled with the latest SDK, as I said before I don't know Maven. I'm not trying to do anything clever, I'm just following the instructions to set up the plugin development environment but I'm finding it really difficult so I appreciate any help you can give.

[J Thomas]

Re-running with -e just adds the BuildException trace to the output so nothing I don't already know, ie java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.PropertyFile

What I don't know is how to tell it where the missing class is in the repository.

All I'm doing is trying to follow the Plugin SDK installation instructions, it shouldn't be so hard?

[tier-0 grump]

You're right - it shouldn't be that hard - I'm going to set up a clean environment today and build to see if I can replicate this.