We just upgraded our Jenkins version from "1.424.6" "1.447.1".
After the upgrade, all system groovy scripts that contained the following line stopped working:
AbstractBuild g_currentBuild = (AbstractBuild)Thread.currentThread().executable;
When this line in the script is executed, the following stacktrace was generated:
FATAL: null
java.lang.StackOverflowError
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.redirect(ClassNode.java:178)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.equals(ClassNode.java:677)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.genericTypeAsString(ClassNode.java:1149)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1127)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1132)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.genericTypeAsString(ClassNode.java:1152)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1127)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1132)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.genericTypeAsString(ClassNode.java:1152)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1127)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1132)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.genericTypeAsString(ClassNode.java:1152)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1127)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1132)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.genericTypeAsString(ClassNode.java:1152)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1127)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1132)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.genericTypeAsString(ClassNode.java:1152)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1127)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1132)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.genericTypeAsString(ClassNode.java:1152)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1127)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1132)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.genericTypeAsString(ClassNode.java:1152)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1127)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.toString(ClassNode.java:1132)
[...repeats until stack overflow.]
We upgraded our Groovy plugin to the latest version (1.12) with the same result.
We rolled back to Jenkins 1.424.6 and we do not see the error there.
I got the same error, but I when I changed the groovy code to
AbstractBuild g_currentBuild = Thread.currentThread().executable;
the error went away.
Not sure if this is a bug with groovy 1.8.5. This was tested with jenkins 1.515