Error: class java.util.ArrayList cannot be cast to class java.util.LinkedHashMap

[Marvie Rosal]

I get an error running on our CI/CD pipeline:

Unexpected error accessing file /zap/wrk/zap.yaml : class java.util.ArrayList cannot be cast to class java.util.LinkedHashMap (java.util.ArrayList and java.util.LinkedHashMap are in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap') - see log for details

I have the following yaml file:

env:

contexts:

- name: "our test env"

urls:

- "https://something something"

includePaths:

- "https://something something/*"

excludePaths: []

sessionManagement:

method: "https"

parameters: []

parameters:

failOnError: false

failOnWarning: true

progressToStdout: true

vars: []

[Simon Bennetts]

Why have you got spaces in the 'urls' and 'includePaths' ?

Spaces are not valid in URLs - take them out :)

Cheers,

Simon

[Marvie Rosal]

Haha. I have proper URL but just didn't include it for security purposes :)
It actually worked now with the following:

env:

contexts:

- name: "our test env"

urls:

- "https://ourtestenv.com/"

includePaths:

- "https://ourtestenv.com/*"

excludePaths: []

sessionManagement:

method: "http"

parameters: {}

users:

- name: "admin"

username: "${EMAIL_PASSED_FROM_CI_VAR}"

password: "${PASSWORD_PASSED_FROM_CI_VAR}"

parameters:

failOnError: false

failOnWarning: true

progressToStdout: true

vars: {}

[Simon Bennetts]

Good to know its now working.

Do you know what the problem was?

[Marvie Rosal]

The ones that I changed were changing from bracket to curly bracket for the following:

parameters: {}

vars: {}

[Simon Bennetts]

Thanks for letting us know.

The code does try to detect such yaml problems and report them in a useful way but clearly if failed to do that here.

Cheers,

Simon