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Debugger mistakenly included Gradle build folder in classpaths

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, typescript
Domain
build-system, devtools

Research direction

Reproduce the issue with the spring-petclinic project: select Gradle, run ./gradlew build, launch the project, and inspect the argfile. Trace the classpath handling that adds the bin and build folders; done means the build folder is absent from the generated classpath and the duplicate database initialization no longer occurs.

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Description

ai-triaged bug
  1. Open spring-petclinic project using VS Code with Java Ext Pack installed
  2. When hint to choose between Maven or Gradle, pick Gradle and import the project
  3. In terminal, build the project using gradle by ./gradlew build
  4. Now launch the project, and inspect the argfile

Both bin and build folders are in the classpath, and it will introduce unexpected consequences.

For example, in the spring-petclinic project, the database initialization script will be executed twice due to the extra classpath entry, resulting in duplicated records in db. This is really hard to troubleshoot and will cause serious confusion.

build folder should not be included in this case.

Dominant language
TypeScript
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