IncompatibleClassChangeError when running tests with Java 1.8

[ddimtirov]

java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerInvocationException: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: the number of constructors during runtime and compile time for java.lang.Exception do not match. Expected 4 but got 5
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:192)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.impl.script.FutureExecutionImpl.get(FutureExecutionImpl.groovy:95)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.impl.script.ScriptManagerImpl.installRootScript(ScriptManagerImpl.groovy:83)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.impl.script.StateKeeperScriptManager.installRootScript(StateKeeperScriptManager.groovy:115)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.impl.AgentImpl.boot(AgentImpl.groovy:90)
    at org.linkedin.glu.scripts.testFwk.GluScriptBaseTest.setUp(GluScriptBaseTest.groovy:70)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.invokeMethodOnSuperN(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:127)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.invokeMethodOnSuper0(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:147)
    at MyGlueScriptTest.setUp(MyGlueScriptTest.groovy:5)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit38ClassRunner.run(JUnit38ClassRunner.java:81)
    at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:130)
Caused by: org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerInvocationException: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: the number of constructors during runtime and compile time for java.lang.Exception do not match. Expected 4 but got 5
    at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:276)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ConvertedClosure.invokeCustom(ConvertedClosure.java:51)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ConversionHandler.invoke(ConversionHandler.java:79)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.impl.script.FutureExecutionImpl.run(FutureExecutionImpl.groovy:80)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.impl.script.ScriptExecution$_closure2.doCall(ScriptExecution.groovy:568)
    at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:276)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: the number of constructors during runtime and compile time for java.lang.Exception do not match. Expected 4 but got 5
    at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.selectConstructorAndTransformArguments(MetaClassImpl.java:1403)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.selectConstructorAndTransformArguments(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:237)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.api.AgentException.<init>(AgentException.groovy:33)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.api.ScriptException.<init>(ScriptException.groovy:33)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.api.ScriptExecutionCauseException.<init>(ScriptExecutionCauseException.groovy:51)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.api.ScriptExecutionCauseException.create(ScriptExecutionCauseException.groovy:71)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.api.ScriptExecutionException.<init>(ScriptExecutionException.groovy:38)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.impl.script.ScriptWrapperImpl$_getAvailableActionsClosures_closure1_closure3_closure4.doCall(ScriptWrapperImpl.groovy:69)
    at org.linkedin.groovy.util.state.StateMachineImpl.doExecute(StateMachineImpl.groovy:391)
    at org.linkedin.groovy.util.state.StateMachineImpl.executeAction(StateMachineImpl.groovy:319)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.impl.script.ScriptWrapperImpl$_getAvailableActionsClosures_closure1_closure3.doCall(ScriptWrapperImpl.groovy:60)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.impl.script.ScriptWrapperImpl$__clinit__closure2_closure5_closure7.doCall(ScriptWrapperImpl.groovy:42)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.impl.script.Invocation.execute(Invocation.groovy:33)
    at org.linkedin.glu.agent.impl.script.FutureExecutionImpl$_closure1.doCall(FutureExecutionImpl.groovy:66)
    ... 43 more

For more details see http://blog.proxerd.pl/article/how-to-fix-incompatibleclasschangeerror-for-your-groovy-projects-running-on-jdk7

[ypujante]

This issue (that we saw in the past) and that you linked to is related to jdk 1.6 -> jdk 1.7 transition. So I am a bit surprised to see it with jdk 1.8.

Can you please describe the exact steps to reproduce the issue?

I know that there was some company upgrading to 1.8 (http://glu.977617.n3.nabble.com/glu-and-java-8-td4026839.html), but there has not been any follow up so I don't know more.

At this stage glu is not officially supported with 1.8 (that was the point of the forum question to see if there was interest/demand), but would have hoped it simply worked with it.

Yan