I was using Grails 1.3.6 and was having an issue with the context loader when deploying a war. Worked fine with run-app, but not run-war or war.
After running out of ideas, I thought maybe updating Grails to 2.1.1 would help, but I have only dug a deeper hole for myself.
Plugins seem to be coming and going at random. Every time I quit STS and relaunch, I get a different set of plugins. Installing them doesn't install them and uninstalling them doesn't uninstall them, either through the manager or the command line. For example, I have upgraded jquery to 1.8.3 several times, but the project still shows jquery 1.8.0 under plugins. After uninstalling a plugin, it will still show under plugins, but when I uninstall it again, it says it can't uninstall it because it is not installed.
The main problem has been with nimble. No matter what I do my application cannot resolve grails.plugins.nimble.core.ProfileBase, or any other class that is a part of the nimble plugin.
So using nimble as a test case:
In my project explorer: the plugins folder includes "nimble 0.4-SNAPSHOT".
In application.properties, there is the line 'plugins.nimble=0.4-SNAPSHOT'.
In ~/.grails/2.1.1/projects/MyProject/plugins, there exists a nimble-0.4-SNAPSHOT folder with the source code.
In .../myProject/lib there are both "nimble-0.4-SNAPSHOT.jar" and "nimble-0.4-SNAPSHOT.zip" because at different points it was looking for a jar or a zip. I just changed the extension from .zip to .jar.
In the Grails Plugin Manager, nimble has a green checkmark showing it is installed.
My BuildConfig.groovy file is stock and unchanged (although I tried many different things, I have set it back to the original), but is included here for fun:
grails.servlet.version = "2.5" // Change depending on target container compliance (2.5 or 3.0)
grails.project.class.dir = "target/classes"
grails.project.test.class.dir = "target/test-classes"
grails.project.test.reports.dir = "target/test-reports"
grails.project.target.level = 1.6
grails.project.source.level = 1.6
//grails.project.war.file = "target/${appName}-${appVersion}.war"
grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
// inherit Grails' default dependencies
inherits("global") {
// specify dependency exclusions here; for example, uncomment this to disable ehcache:
// excludes 'ehcache'
}
log "warn" // log level of Ivy resolver, either 'error', 'warn', 'info', 'debug' or 'verbose'
checksums true // Whether to verify checksums on resolve
repositories {
inherits true // Whether to inherit repository definitions from plugins
grailsPlugins()
grailsHome()
grailsCentral()
mavenLocal()
mavenCentral()
// uncomment these (or add new ones) to enable remote dependency resolution from public Maven repositories
//mavenRepo "http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org"
// mavenRepo "http://repository.codehaus.org"
// mavenRepo "http://download.java.net/maven/2/"
// mavenRepo "http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/"
}
dependencies {
// specify dependencies here under either 'build', 'compile', 'runtime', 'test' or 'provided' scopes eg.
// runtime 'mysql:mysql-connector-java:5.1.20'
}
plugins {
runtime ":hibernate:$grailsVersion"
runtime ":jquery:1.8.0"
runtime ":resources:1.1.6"
//build ":nimble:0.4-SNAPSHOT"
// Uncomment these (or add new ones) to enable additional resources capabilities
//runtime ":zipped-resources:1.0"
//runtime ":cached-resources:1.0"
//runtime ":yui-minify-resources:0.1.4"
build ":tomcat:$grailsVersion"
runtime ":database-migration:1.1"
compile ':cache:1.0.0'
}
}
So why is my application not aware of nimble? I have tried 'clean', 'refresh-dependencies', 'compile', and rebooting in every possible combination to no avail.
I think it must have something to do with not completely or correctly upgrading from Grails 1.3.6 to 2.1.1, but what?
Thank you.
