Job Generator Build failing with ClassCastException

[murali mohan]

Jenkins version is 1.617

The Job Generator job is a parameterized build with 2 variables/parameters. WHen I try to build the job (or generate the job), it asks for the standard Jenkins Job Generator options like "Process this job only", "Disabled Jobs" etc. But it is not asking for the parameter values that I have configured in the job, which is wrong, I think.

The stack trace is given below andthis same stack trace happens in both options: 1) When I give a default value for the 2 parameters, 2) When I do not enter a value for the 2 parameters

 

Stack trace

javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.ClassCastException: net.sf.json.JSONNull cannot be cast to net.sf.json.JSONObject
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:796)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:876)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$6.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:249)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:53)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:746)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:876)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:649)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:238)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:848)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:686)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1494)
	at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:123)
	at hudson.plugins.greenballs.GreenBallFilter.doFilter(GreenBallFilter.java:58)
	at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:120)
	at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:114)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482)
	at hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter.doFilter(CrumbFilter.java:48)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:84)
	at hudson.security.UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.java:51)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
	at jenkins.security.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:117)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
	at org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:125)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
	at org.acegisecurity.ui.rememberme.RememberMeProcessingFilter.doFilter(RememberMeProcessingFilter.java:142)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
	at org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:271)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
	at jenkins.security.BasicHeaderProcessor.doFilter(BasicHeaderProcessor.java:93)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
	at org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:249)
	at hudson.security.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.java:67)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
	at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:76)
	at hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:171)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.compression.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:49)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482)
	at hudson.util.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:81)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.doFilter(DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.java:30)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1474)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:499)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:137)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:533)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:231)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1086)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:428)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:193)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1020)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:135)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:116)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:370)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.handleRequest(AbstractHttpConnection.java:489)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.content(AbstractHttpConnection.java:960)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(AbstractHttpConnection.java:1021)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:865)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:240)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AsyncHttpConnection.handle(AsyncHttpConnection.java:82)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.handle(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:668)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint$1.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:52)
	at winstone.BoundedExecutorService$1.run(BoundedExecutorService.java:77)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: net.sf.json.JSONNull cannot be cast to net.sf.json.JSONObject
	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.jobgenerator.parameters.GeneratorParametersDefinitionProperty._doBuild(GeneratorParametersDefinitionProperty.java:127)
	at jenkins.model.ParameterizedJobMixIn.doBuild(ParameterizedJobMixIn.java:169)
	at hudson.model.AbstractProject.doBuild(AbstractProject.java:1757)
	at org.jenkinsci.plugins.jobgenerator.JobGenerator.doBuild(JobGenerator.java:89)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor454.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$InstanceFunction.invoke(Function.java:298)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvoke(Function.java:161)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvokeAndServeResponse(Function.java:96)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$1.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:121)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:53)
	at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:746)
	... 65 more

[Tony Dunlop]

In case anyone else has this problem, you need to change your parameters from 'string parameter' type to 'generator parameter' type .

Cheers