[Bazel CI] Groovyc command in rules_groovy fails with "Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v7.Java7" with Bazel@HEAD

[sgowroji]

CI: https://buildkite.com/bazel/bazel-at-head-plus-downstream/builds/3701#018e16aa-c47f-4884-8fc8-f7533591df20

Platform: MacOS

Logs:

ERROR: �[0m/Users/buildkite/builds/bk-imacpro-8/bazel-org-repo-root/rules_groovy/example/src/main/groovy/lib/BUILD:17:24: Groovyc example/src/main/groovy/lib/libgroovyjavalib-groovy.jar failed: (Exit 1): bash failed: error executing Groovyc command (from target //example/src/main/groovy/lib:groovyjavalib-groovy) 
Error: Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v7.Java7
Error: Exception org.codehaus.groovy.GroovyBugError [in thread "main"]
ERROR: �[0m/Users/buildkite/builds/bk-imacpro-8/bazel-org-repo-root/rules_groovy/example/src/main/groovy/lib/BUILD:3:15: Groovyc example/src/main/groovy/lib/libgroovylib-impl.jar failed: (Exit 1): bash failed: error executing Groovyc command (from target //example/src/main/groovy/lib:groovylib-impl) 
Error: Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v7.Java7
Error: Exception org.codehaus.groovy.GroovyBugError [in thread "main"]
ERROR: �[0mBuild did NOT complete successfully
Error: The command exited with status 1�[0m
error: exit status 1

Culprit:

Steps:

git clone https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_groovy
git reset 47adf9ba4d6a4ad5be29d0599436f68bc811bfad  --hard
export USE_BAZEL_VERSION=ee8e833bbb530e4a84e3b9c2f4a07b48c78fad85 
bazel build //...

CC Greenteam @comius

[sgowroji]

Hi @ekuefler, Can you take a look on the above fialures. Thanks!

[pcj]

I believe this is due to an old version of groovy.jar (got this error trying to upgrade a codebase to java 20). I used a fork of rules_groovy:

    # NOTE: this is a fork of io_bazel_rules_groovy that appears to be maintained.
    # Previous versions reference a groovy.jar file that is incompatible with
    # newer java versions.
    #
    # Branch: master
    # Commit: 005525d27a756c6fe5475fb118cbde24f553b6b4
    # Date: 2024-06-28 00:31:56 +0000 UTC
    # URL: https://github.com/Xperiel/rules_groovy/commit/005525d27a756c6fe5475fb118cbde24f553b6b4
    #
    # updated dependencies
    # Size: 16386 (16 kB)
    http_archive(
        name = "io_bazel_rules_groovy",
        sha256 = "a43cd8f7b8c2e27c7aa593060c7043037cc3aeea2ef4e41f134d8a5dba8ee1f4",
        strip_prefix = "rules_groovy-005525d27a756c6fe5475fb118cbde24f553b6b4",
        urls = ["https://github.com/Xperiel/rules_groovy/archive/005525d27a756c6fe5475fb118cbde24f553b6b4.tar.gz"],
    )