Publisher plugins crash in workflow pipeline

[Nicholas Brown]

I'm trying to get to grips with defining a workflow pipeline. I tried adding a step with:

step([$class: 'hudson.plugins.sloccount.SloccountPublisher', pattern: 'sloccount.sc', encoding: 'UTF-8', commentIsCode: false, numBuildsInGraph: 0, ignoreBuildFailure: false])

but it fails with this error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch 

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) 

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) 

at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) 

at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) 

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.instantiate(DescribableModel.java:193)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.StepDescriptor.newInstance(StepDescriptor.java:104)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeMethod(DSL.java:134)

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScript.invokeMethod(CpsScript.java:113)

at groovy.lang.GroovyObject$invokeMethod.call(Unknown Source)

The following step, using a similar publisher plugin also fails with a similar cryptic error:

step([$class: 'hudson.plugins.cobertura.CoberturaPublisher', coberturaReportFile: 'coverage.xml'])

Can anyone suggest what's wrong? Should it be possible to use these publisher plugins from a pipeline in this way?

Cheers,

Nick

[Daniel Beck]

Check the snippet generator if those types appear there for the 'General Step'. If they don't, they cannot be used that way, as they're not implementing the required API (SimpleBuildStep in this case).

Also, https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-plugin/blob/master/COMPATIBILITY.md

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[Nicholas Brown]

Your correct:

Neither of them implement this interface:

https://github.com/jenkinsci/sloccount-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/sloccount/SloccountPublisher.java#L30

https://github.com/jenkinsci/cobertura-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/cobertura/CoberturaPublisher.java#L53

while for example the xunit plugin does:

https://github.com/jenkinsci/xunit-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/xunit/XUnitPublisher.java#L63

I found the following issue tracking this for cobertua:

https://github.com/jenkinsci/cobertura-plugin/issues/50

Neither is listed on the compatibility page.

[Nicholas Brown]

See https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-35234 and https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-35096