I can't figure out why I am getting this exception from my ant build.xml file. I checked and everything is in the classpath. Why must this be so complicated?!
I had trouble with Ant in the past and it seems it always is something related to the classpath. I am pointing to junit.jar using both ways: within eclipse: window->preferences->ant->runtime->Ant Home->Add External Jars, and also within the build.xml script. This time Ant is not able to locate my test class in the junit task. Is there something wrong with the way I am pointing to this class?
<target name="init">
<property name="sourceDir" value="src"/>
<property name="outputDir" value="build" />
<property name="junitLocation" value="C:\...\org.junit4_4.3.1\junit.jar" />
</target>
<target name="clean" depends="init">
<delete dir="${outputDir}" />
</target>
<target name="prepare" depends="clean">
<mkdir dir="${outputDir}" />
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="prepare">
<javac srcdir="${sourceDir}" destdir="${outputDir}" classpath="${junitLocation}"/>
</target>
<path id="classpath">
<pathelement location="${outputDir}" />
<pathelement location="${junitLocation}" />
</path>
<target name="testApplication" depends="compile">
<echo>Running the junit tests...</echo>
<junit fork="yes" haltonfailure="yes">
<test name="my.package.MyTest" />
<formatter type="plain" usefile="false" />
<classpath refid="classpath" />
</junit>
</target>
I am always getting:
[junit] Testsuite: my.package.MyTest
[junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Time elapsed: 0 sec
[junit] Caused an ERROR
[junit] my.package.MyTest
[junit] java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: my.package.MyTest
[junit] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
[junit] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
[junit] at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
[junit] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
[junit] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
[junit] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
[junit] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
[junit] at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
[junit] at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
BUILD FAILED
Apparently, Ant finds junit.jar and attempts to start the test, but why can't it find my test class? I point to the folder with compiled test class. So I know that junit is on Ant's classpath at least, but the ClassNotFound puzzles me.
Any ideas perhaps? Many thanks!
Are you sure your test class is in the build folder? You're invoking junit in a separate JVM (fork=true) so it's possible that working folder would change during that invocation and with build being relative, that may cause a problem.
Run ant from command line (not from Eclipse) with -verbose or -debug switch to see the detailed classpath / working dir junit is being invoked with and post the results back here if you're still can't resolve this issue.
You don't need to add the JUnit jar to the classpath. If ant can't find it, the <junit> task won't run.
I suggest trying different ways of specifying the classpath as described in the ant doc at http://ant.apache.org/manual/using.html#path; specifically <classpath path="${srcdir}" /> might help.
If not, ChssPly76's suggestion of running ant -debug from the command line is the best bet. You'll want to bump up the buffer on your command prompt window though, because ant's debugger is extremely verbose.
Related
I have a file in my java project called HelloWorldServiceTest.java. Its under com.dummy.test under the src folder.
Below is a snippet of my Ant build.xml file
<target name="junit" depends="compile">
<junit printsummary="yes">
<classpath>
<fileset dir="lib"/>
</classpath>
<batchtest fork="yes">
<fileset dir="${src.dir}" includes="com/dummy/test/HelloWorldServiceTest.java/>
</batchtest>
</junit>
</target>
Output is always as follows:
junit:
[junit] Running com.dummy.test.HelloWorldServiceTest
[junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed 0 sec
[junit] Test com.dummy.test.HelloWorldServiceTest FAILED
Can anyone help me on this?
Manually running HelloWorldServiceTest generates no error and always a success. Running it through ant always shows FAILED and there is even no stack trace why it was failing.
lib is where the junit jar is placed
When I added junit -debug as arguments, I saw the ff.
Finding class com.dummy.test.HelloWorldServiceTest
Class java.lang.System loaded from parent loader (parentfirst)
[junit] Test com.dummy.test.HelloWorldServiceTest FAILED
and
<error message="com.dummy.test.HelloWorldServiceTest" type="java.lang.ClassNotFoundException />
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown source)
...
...
...
Seems it cant find HelloWorldServiceTest.class
I am writing an ant task which uses below code :
public class Klazz extends Task{
public void execute() throws BuildException{
HtmlUnitDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();
driver.get("file:///C:/sample/alltests-fails.html");
}
In eclipse the project named is "test-project" and used "libs" folder which contains the jars (ant.jar, selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar) to be added in the classpath . If I run the code in Eclipse its working fine but while running as an ant task it throws java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError . Below is the build.xml snippet to create the jar(named custom-task.jar) file which needs to be put in the %ant_home%\lib folder.
<target name="jar" depends="compile" >
<mkdir dir="build/jar" />
<jar destfile="${env.ANT_HOME}/lib/custom-task.jar">
<fileset dir="build/classes" />
<restrict>
<name name="**/*.class" />
<archives>
<zips>
<fileset dir="${basedir}/libs/" includes="**/*.jar" />
</zips>
</archives>
</restrict>
</jar>
</target>
May be the external jars/classes not added properly in the class path while creating the jar through the "jar" task above, resulting some missing class files causing the ExceptionInInitializerError.
Advance thanks for any help on this .
below is the stack trace :
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLScanner.scanEntityRef(HTMLScanner.java:1415)
at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLScanner$ContentScanner.scan(HTMLScanner.java:2
059)
at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLScanner.scanDocument(HTMLScanner.java:920)
at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLConfiguration.parse(HTMLConfiguration.java:499
)
at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLConfiguration.parse(HTMLConfiguration.java:452
)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HTMLParser$HtmlUnitDOMBuilder.pars
e(HTMLParser.java:926)
at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HTMLParser.parse(HTMLParser.java:2
45)
at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HTMLParser.parseHtml(HTMLParser.ja
va:191)
at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultPageCreator.createHtmlPage(Defau
ltPageCreator.java:268)
at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultPageCreator.createPage(DefaultPa
geCreator.java:156)
at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.loadWebResponseInto(WebClient
.java:455)
at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:329)
at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:394)
at org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver.get(HtmlUnitDriver.java:4
77)
at org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver.get(HtmlUnitDriver.java:4
66)
at mypkg.Klazz.execute(Klazz.java:15)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:292)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.jav
a:106)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:435)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:456)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1393)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1364)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExe
cutor.java:41)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1248)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:851)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:235)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.Properties$LineReader.readLine(Properties.java:434)
at java.util.Properties.load0(Properties.java:353)
at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:341)
at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLEntities.load0(HTMLEntities.java:101)
at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLEntities.<clinit>(HTMLEntities.java:53)
... 33 more
Total time: 2 seconds
Should there have been any class loading difficulties, I would assume a NoClassDefFoundError or a ClassNotFoundException would occur
The ExceptionInInitializerError is usually not what should draw attention, because it only says "Hey, programmer, an exception happened inside an initialization block"
More about initialization blocks here
Therefore, dealing with the NPE will fix the issue, but unfortunately I've no access to the code that could've caused this. Let me know and I shall edit the answer.
#Vlad Ilie thanks for having a look , its solved now.. the problem is with jar creation ant script .
The earlier ant task for the jar creation is not able to club all the jars in the class path and resulting... classnotfoundexception which in turn caused the ExceptionInInitializerError and NullPointerException .
Below is the fixed "jar" task which is successfully able to add all the jars in the class path .
<target name="jar" depends="compile">
<jar destfile="${env.ANT_HOME}/lib/custom-task.jar" basedir="build/classes" >
<zipgroupfileset dir="${basedir}/libs/" includes="*.jar"/>
</jar>
</target>
Above I used zipgroupfileset which is very handy .
I have some trouble with getting a Java application to run in the console and/or with Ant.
I know that a lot of starting issues are related to the classpath being not set or incorrectly set, though I'm fairly sure I set it correctly, so my search only yielded results on that.
Here is the general setup of my application:
classes are in packages model, view and controller. controller.Controller is the class with the main method. I am using objectdb as my JPA provider.
I am using Ant to compile my application.
After compiling, I can run my application from ant with the following script:
<target name="run" description="default build process">
<java fork="true" classname="${main-class}">
<classpath>
<path refid="classpath" />
</classpath>
</java>
</target>
where ${main-class} is controller.Controller and classpath consists of /lib and /dist folders (the application's jar file is compiled to /dist)
Now I tried copying all .jar files from /lib and /dist to one separate folder and run them withjava -jar cooking.jar -cp . which results in
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/Persistence
at model.jpa.JPAModelFactory.<init>(JPAModelFactory.java:28)
at model.jpa.JPAModelFactory.<init>(JPAModelFactory.java:24)
at controller.Controller.<init>(Controller.java:59)
at controller.Controller.main(Controller.java:116)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.persistence.Persistence
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
... 4 more
So I tried ant and slightly modified above build target to:
<target name="run2" description="default build process">
<java fork="true" jar="${dist.dir}/${ant.project.name}.jar">
<classpath>
<path refid="classpath" />
</classpath>
</java>
</target>
which results in the same error. I don't understand why.
Just to test it, I tried running from the command line by specifying the main class directly: java -cp . controller.Controller which for some reason cannot even locate the class (it's there, I confirmed it):
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: controller/Controller
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: controller.Controller
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: controller.Controller. Program will exit.
I have set JAVA_HOME to my JDK's path, and CLASSPATH to my JRE's/lib path.
OS is Windows 7 64 bit, Java version is 1.6.0_25-b06
I am puzzled by two things:
a) Why is Java unable to locate controller.Controller, even though it is present in the .jar file and the .jar file is in the current directory?
b) What am I doing wrong that calling Java with -jar seems to mess up the lookup mechanisms.
Any help is highly appreciated.
The class path should consist of
directories with class files (in their proper package directory)
jar files.
You cannot point the class path to a directory of jars. Things are different when running a application server (eg Tomcat), which will load jars from a directory for you.
though I'm fairly sure I set it correctly
The evidence is against you. The JVM is telling you that you have not set it correctly.
What do you think that ref 'classpath' pointing to? Where do you assume its values are coming from? They should be defined inside the Ant build.xml, right? Like this:
<path id="production.class.path">
<pathelement location="${production.classes}"/>
<pathelement location="${production.resources}"/>
<fileset dir="${production.lib}">
<include name="**/*.jar"/>
<exclude name="**/junit*.jar"/>
<exclude name="**/*test*.jar"/>
</fileset>
</path>
<path id="test.class.path">
<path refid="production.class.path"/>
<pathelement location="${test.classes}"/>
<pathelement location="${test.resources}"/>
<fileset dir="${test.lib}">
<include name="**/junit*.jar"/>
<include name="**/*test*.jar"/>
</fileset>
</path>
If you're creating an executable JAR, you need to specify the main class and classpath in the manifest, as CoolBeans correctly pointed out in the comment. The 3rd party JAR locations have to be relative to the executable JAR. You should package them with your executable JAR in such a way that the relative path is easy to sort out and understand.
I've found this happens when I specify both the <classpath> and the jar="..." in the target. I removed the jar="...", placed that .jar into the <classpath> list and it ran after that.
I am trying to compile and run a simple java class within eclipse. The compile task works fine, and since I do not specify a destination folder the build files are in the same directory as the source. Which is alright, at the moment all I need is to learn how I can run the class with the main() method.
I have tried using the fully qualified name of the class (with package name, etc) and the classname alone, but always I get a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException
Buildfile: C:\Users....\build.xml
run:
[java] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: code/control/MyClass
[java] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: code.control.MyClass
[java] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
[java] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
[java] at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
[java] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
[java] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
[java] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
[java] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
[java] Could not find the main class: code.control.MyClass. Program will exit.
[java] Exception in thread "main"
[java] Java Result: 1
compile:
default:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 234 milliseconds
Below, are the targets taken from my build.xml file:
<target name="default" depends="compile" description="learn">
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="run">
<javac srcdir="src/" />
</target>
<target name="run">
<java classname="code.control.MyClass" fork="true"/>
</target>
I can't figure out why the class is not found. MyClass contains the main() method and since i specify no classpath it should look at the current directory, which is the src/ right?
The development directory is the usual eclipse file structure:
projectName/src/code/control/MyClass
If it is a classpath problem how could I resolve it? I always had problem grasping the concept "put it on your classpath" ... If someone could provide a little bit of explanation with the classpath in the ant context, I would be very thankful.
Thanks for any help on this. The version of ant is 1.7.0
The classpath is where the Java runtime looks for your .class files, similar to how your OS uses the PATH variable to find executables.
Try this in your build script:
<target name="run">
<java fork="true" classname="code.control.MyClass">
<classpath>
<path location="src/"/>
</classpath>
</java>
There's a HelloWorld version for ant that walks through building a Java program with ant.
you should include classpath, e.g.
<java classpath="${bin}" classname="code.control.MyClass">
where ${bin} is your output folder.
change your build.xml as below and try out:
<target name="default" depends="run" description="learn">
</target>
<target name="compile" >
<javac srcdir="src/" />
</target>
<target name="run" depends="compile">
<java classname="code.control.MyClass" fork="true"/>
</target>
I'm trying to run my junit tests using ant. The tests are kicked off using a JUnit 4 test suite. If I run this direct from Eclipse the tests complete without error. However if I run it from ant then many of the tests fail with this error repeated over and over until the junit task crashes.
[junit] java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
[junit] at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
[junit] at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:114)
[junit] at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:131)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader.getResourceURL(AntClassLoader.java:1028)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader$ResourceEnumeration.findNextResource(AntClassLoader.java:147)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader$ResourceEnumeration.nextElement(AntClassLoader.java:130)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.util.CollectionUtils$CompoundEnumeration.nextElement(CollectionUtils.java:198)
[junit] at sun.misc.CompoundEnumeration.nextElement(CompoundEnumeration.java:43)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask.checkForkedPath(JUnitTask.java:1128)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask.executeAsForked(JUnitTask.java:1013)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask.execute(JUnitTask.java:834)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask.executeOrQueue(JUnitTask.java:1785)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask.execute(JUnitTask.java:785)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
[junit] at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source)
[junit] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
[junit] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:758)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:257)
[junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:104)
my test running task is as follows:
<target name="run-junit-tests" depends="compile-tests,clean-results">
<mkdir dir="${test.results.dir}"/>
<junit failureproperty="tests.failed" fork="true" showoutput="yes" includeantruntime="false">
<classpath refid="test.run.path" />
<formatter type="xml" />
<test name="project.AllTests" todir="${basedir}/test-results" />
</junit>
<fail if="tests.failed" message="Unit tests failed"/>
</target>
I've verified that the classpath contains the following as well as all of the program code and libraries:
ant-junit.jar
ant-launcher.jar
ant.jar
easymock.jar
easymockclassextension.jar
junit-4.4.jar
I've tried debugging to find out which ZipFile it is trying to open with no luck, I've tried toggling includeantruntime and fork and i've tried running ant with ant -lib test/libs where test/libs contains the ant and junit libraries.
Any info about what causes this exception or how you've configured ant to successfully run unit tests is gratefully received.
ant 1.7.1 (ubuntu), java 1.6.0_10, junit 4.4
Thanks.
Update - Fixed
Found my problem. I had included my classes directory in my path using a fileset as opposed to a pathelement this was causing .class files to be opened as ZipFiles which of course threw an exception.
Found my problem. I had included my classes directory in my path using a fileset as opposed to a pathelement this was causing .class files to be opened as ZipFiles which of course threw an exception.
This error is caused specifically because the class path contains explicit references to one or more [files] that are not JAR's. The reference to "error in opening zip file" is of course that a JAR is in effect a ZIP file where as other files [JUNIT] has found like class files are not and as such do not have a zip format. So the class path should contain only explicit references to JAR [files] and/or the names of the [directories] where other resources like class files are to be found.
So when building up your class path (in ANT) use:
<path id="proj.class.path">
<pathelement location="c:/my/project/root" /> :one for each of the [directories] where class files, log4j property files and other resources etc are to be found
<fileset refid="my.file.set"> :to describe all the explicit JAR [files] that need to be on the class path.
</path>
where
<fileset id="my.file.set" dir="c:/where/i/keep/my/jars">
<filename name="myjar1.jar" />
<filename name="myjar2.jar" />
<filename name="myjar3.jar" />
</fileset>
or
NOTE: When using wild cards like [**/*] in you need to make sure the wild card is not matching files that are not JAR files
<fileset id="my.file.set" dir="c:/where/i/keep/my/jars">
<include name="**/*.jar" />
</fileset>
It sounds like there is an issue with paths.
Check following error source:
classpath: print out the classpath variable in a junit test, run it from eclipse and ant, so you can compare them
Check your project for absolute paths. Probably, ant uses other path prefixes than eclipse.
Some more information would help to help :)
Good luck!
Thanks guys for this information. I just want to add some tip from my experience. I have the same problem with junit as you when junit tryes to open license*.txt files in lib folder where *.jar resides.(Ivy resolve process puts them here) So
<path id="lib.path.id">
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" includes="**.jar"/>
</path>
helps too.
If you are using Ubuntu or Debian, this will make JUnit (and some other libs) always available for Ant:
sudo apt-get install ant-optional