[MPH-191] help:evaluate fails on Java 18 - java.util.Hashtable.table not accessible

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#166 opened on Oct 28, 2022 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 30/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: java
Domain: build-system, cli

Research direction

Start by reproducing the help:evaluate command shown in the report on Java 18 and inspect the maven-help-plugin 3.3.0 evaluation path involved in the failure. Done means the command completes without the XStream accessibility error and produces the requested project.properties output.

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Description

bug priority:minor

Ondrej Zizka opened MPH-191 and commented

When running help:evaluate:

com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.ReflectionConverter[ERROR] message[2]          : Unable to make field private transient java.util.Hashtable$Entry[] java.util.Hashtable.table accessible: module java.base does not "opens java.util" to unnamed module @4fc3529


$ $MVN $MVN_OPTS help:system help:effective-settings help:effective-pom dependency:tree help:evaluate -Dexpression=project.properties -q -DforceStdout[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.3.0:evaluate (default-cli) on project tracker-service-app: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.3.0:evaluate failed: No converter available[ERROR] ---- Debugging information ----[ERROR] message             : No converter available[ERROR] type                : org.apache.maven.plugins.help.AbstractEffectiveMojo$SortedProperties[ERROR] converter           : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.SerializableConverter[ERROR] message[1]          : Unable to make private void java.util.Hashtable.readObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream) throws java.io.IOException,java.lang.ClassNotFoundException accessible: module java.base does not "opens java.util" to unnamed module @4fc3529[ERROR] converter[1]        : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.ReflectionConverter[ERROR] message[2]          : Unable to make field private transient java.util.Hashtable$Entry[] java.util.Hashtable.table accessible: module java.base does not "opens java.util" to unnamed module @4fc3529

Affects: 3.3.0

Dominant language: Java
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