DirectoryScanner missing on Maven 3.9.0

[Tockra]

Hi,

after my maven upgrade some problems occured.

mvn --version

pache Maven 3.9.0 (9b58d2bad23a66be161c4664ef21ce219c2c8584)
Maven home: /usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.9.0/libexec
Java version: 17.0.5, vendor: Amazon.com Inc., runtime: /Users/myuser/.sdkman/candidates/java/17.0.5-amzn
Default locale: de_DE, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "13.2.1", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"

user@My-MBP demo % mvn clean test
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] --------------------------< com.example:demo >--------------------------
[INFO] Building demo 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO]   from pom.xml
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- clean:3.2.0:clean (default-clean) @ demo ---
[INFO] Deleting /Users/user/Downloads/demo/target
[INFO]
[INFO] --- editorconfig:0.1.1:check (check) @ demo ---
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  0.608 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2023-02-23T17:14:07+01:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.ec4j.maven:editorconfig-maven-plugin:0.1.1:check (check) on project demo: Execution check of goal org.ec4j.maven:editorconfig-maven-plugin:0.1.1:check failed: A required class was missing while executing org.ec4j.maven:editorconfig-maven-plugin:0.1.1:check: org/codehaus/plexus/util/DirectoryScanner
[ERROR] -----------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] realm =    plugin>org.ec4j.maven:editorconfig-maven-plugin:0.1.1
[ERROR] strategy = org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.strategy.SelfFirstStrategy
[ERROR] urls[0] = file:/Users/user/.m2/repository/org/ec4j/maven/editorconfig-maven-plugin/0.1.1/editorconfig-maven-plugin-0.1.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[1] = file:/Users/user/.m2/repository/org/ec4j/linters/editorconfig-lint-api/0.2.1/editorconfig-lint-api-0.2.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[2] = file:/Users/user/.m2/repository/org/ec4j/core/ec4j-core/0.2.1/ec4j-core-0.2.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[3] = file:/Users/user/.m2/repository/org/ec4j/linters/editorconfig-linters/0.2.1/editorconfig-linters-0.2.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[4] = file:/Users/user/.m2/repository/org/antlr/antlr4-runtime/4.7/antlr4-runtime-4.7.jar
[ERROR] Number of foreign imports: 1
[ERROR] import: Entry[import  from realm ClassRealm[maven.api, parent: null]]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] -----------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] : org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryScanner
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginContainerException

I created a new spring boot application on start.spring.io . Then I changed pom.xml to use the editorconfig-maven-plugin:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>demo</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>demo</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
    <properties>
        <java.version>17</java.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.ec4j.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>editorconfig-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>0.1.1</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>check</id>
                        <phase>validate</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>check</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <inherited>true</inherited>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>spring-milestones</id>
            <name>Spring Milestones</name>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>spring-snapshots</id>
            <name>Spring Snapshots</name>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
            <releases>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </releases>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
    <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>spring-milestones</id>
            <name>Spring Milestones</name>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>spring-snapshots</id>
            <name>Spring Snapshots</name>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
            <releases>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </releases>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>

</project>

Using the "mvnw" (version 3.8.6) works fine. So it seems to be related with maven 3.9.0

Maybe somebody can help.

T

[Tockra]

Related to https://github.com/ec4j/editorconfig-maven-plugin/pull/68

[vikhyatprabhu]

Will a new version be released for this fix?

[ppalaga]

Yes, I hope to be able to do it within a week.