Recently I started to get an error when I try to clean/build some plain Eclipse Groovy projects or just try to change a Groovy source in them. I was not able to fix it and I can't understand what is wrong. Fortunately, usually those projects are test projects, yet this is annoying and the only workaround I found was to delete those projects and recreate them from scratch.
This is the modal dialog that is shown when I issue a "Clean project" action:

And this is the what gets printed to the error log:
eclipse.buildId=4.14.0.I20191210-0610
java.version=1.8.0_242
java.vendor=Private Build
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=it_IT
Command-line arguments: -data file:/home/mauro/workspace/rolling/DCS-SHOP-trunk/ -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64
org.eclipse.core.resources
Error
Wed Apr 15 09:56:40 CEST 2020
Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.core.resources".
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to bootstrap GroovyClassLoaders for project 'TestGroovy'
at org.codehaus.jdt.groovy.internal.compiler.GroovyClassLoaderFactory.getProjectGroovyClassLoaders(GroovyClassLoaderFactory.java:174)
at org.codehaus.jdt.groovy.internal.compiler.GroovyClassLoaderFactory.getGroovyClassLoaders(GroovyClassLoaderFactory.java:115)
at org.codehaus.jdt.groovy.internal.compiler.ast.GroovyParser.lambda$0(GroovyParser.java:120)
at org.codehaus.jdt.groovy.internal.compiler.ast.GroovyParser.dietParse(GroovyParser.java:181)
at org.codehaus.jdt.groovy.integration.internal.MultiplexingParser.dietParse(MultiplexingParser.java:45)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.Compiler.internalBeginToCompile(Compiler.java:861)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.Compiler.beginToCompile(Compiler.java:404)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:454)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:436)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.builder.AbstractImageBuilder.compile(AbstractImageBuilder.java:410)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.builder.BatchImageBuilder.compile(BatchImageBuilder.java:218)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.builder.AbstractImageBuilder.compile(AbstractImageBuilder.java:342)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.builder.BatchImageBuilder.build(BatchImageBuilder.java:80)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.builder.JavaBuilder.buildAll(JavaBuilder.java:275)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.builder.JavaBuilder.build(JavaBuilder.java:187)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$2.run(BuildManager.java:833)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:220)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:263)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$1.run(BuildManager.java:316)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:319)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuildLoop(BuildManager.java:371)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.build(BuildManager.java:392)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.doBuild(AutoBuildJob.java:154)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.run(AutoBuildJob.java:244)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:63)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at org.codehaus.jdt.groovy.internal.compiler.GroovyClassLoaderFactory.calculateClasspath(GroovyClassLoaderFactory.java:198)
at org.codehaus.jdt.groovy.internal.compiler.GroovyClassLoaderFactory.lambda$2(GroovyClassLoaderFactory.java:151)
at java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.computeIfAbsent(ConcurrentHashMap.java:1660)
at org.codehaus.jdt.groovy.internal.compiler.GroovyClassLoaderFactory.getProjectGroovyClassLoaders(GroovyClassLoaderFactory.java:149)
... 26 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor47.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.eclipse.jdt.groovy.core.util.ReflectionUtils.throwableExecutePrivateMethod(ReflectionUtils.java:117)
at org.codehaus.jdt.groovy.internal.compiler.GroovyClassLoaderFactory.resolveRuntimeClasspathEntry(GroovyClassLoaderFactory.java:204)
at org.codehaus.jdt.groovy.internal.compiler.GroovyClassLoaderFactory.calculateClasspath(GroovyClassLoaderFactory.java:191)
... 29 more
Caused by: org.eclipse.buildship.core.internal.GradlePluginsRuntimeException: Model not available for TestGroovy
at org.eclipse.buildship.core.internal.workspace.GradleClasspathContainerRuntimeClasspathEntryResolver.resolveRuntimeClasspathEntry(GradleClasspathContainerRuntimeClasspathEntryResolver.java:77)
at org.eclipse.buildship.core.internal.workspace.GradleClasspathContainerRuntimeClasspathEntryResolver.resolveRuntimeClasspathEntry(GradleClasspathContainerRuntimeClasspathEntryResolver.java:66)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.RuntimeClasspathEntryResolver.resolveRuntimeClasspathEntry(RuntimeClasspathEntryResolver.java:110)
at org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JavaRuntime.resolveRuntimeClasspathEntry(JavaRuntime.java:1505)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.DefaultEntryResolver.resolveRuntimeClasspathEntry(DefaultEntryResolver.java:70)
at org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JavaRuntime.resolveRuntimeClasspathEntry(JavaRuntime.java:1508)
at org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JavaRuntime.resolveRuntimeClasspathEntry(JavaRuntime.java:1444)
... 35 more
The error seems to suggest there's a problem in the project setup with regards to Groovy libraries, but the "Groovy libraries" classpath container is there (with groovy-2.5.11-indy.jar, groovy-test-2.5.11-indy.jar and ivy-2.4.0.jar), even "Groovy DSL support" container is there (although I don't use DSL support) and, most importantly, I did not manually change anything on that project that may justify some kind of project "corruption".
Recently I started to get an error when I try to clean/build some plain Eclipse Groovy projects or just try to change a Groovy source in them. I was not able to fix it and I can't understand what is wrong. Fortunately, usually those projects are test projects, yet this is annoying and the only workaround I found was to delete those projects and recreate them from scratch.
This is the modal dialog that is shown when I issue a "Clean project" action:

And this is the what gets printed to the error log:
The error seems to suggest there's a problem in the project setup with regards to Groovy libraries, but the "Groovy libraries" classpath container is there (with groovy-2.5.11-indy.jar, groovy-test-2.5.11-indy.jar and ivy-2.4.0.jar), even "Groovy DSL support" container is there (although I don't use DSL support) and, most importantly, I did not manually change anything on that project that may justify some kind of project "corruption".