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FlatFile cannot be cast to IFlatFolder [message #1065433]

Tue, 25 June 2013 12:40

Eclipse User

A few weeks ago I upgraded my macbook pro and since then I can no longer use WTP to launch my webapp. It fails consistently publishing (or trying to) with this error

Could not publish to the server.
org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.FlatFile cannot be cast to org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.IFlatFolder

This is a servlet+javascript project with maven. So far I have tried
- new workspace and re-import project
- new version of eclipse
- new version of tomcat
- m2e wtp incubator plugin
- all of the above at once

Any help would be appreciated if you have seen this before. Google is finding nothing based on this error

Thanks

Re: FlatFile cannot be cast to IFlatFolder [message #1065436 is a reply to message #1065433]

Tue, 25 June 2013 12:53

Eclipse User

Hello,
What version of the products you mentioned are you using? For example, what version of WTP? eclipse? Tomcat? m2e and m2e-wtp?

Was your application working fine with the products mentioned above? and then you upgraded one of the products, and your application stopped working?

Also, do you see a full stack trace? If you do not see it in a dialog, search in the Errors view, or in the workspace log.

Are you using linked resources?

Re: FlatFile cannot be cast to IFlatFolder [message #1065559 is a reply to message #1065436]

Wed, 26 June 2013 09:55

Eclipse User

Eclipse Juno service release 2 Build id: 20130225-0426
Tomcat (tried 6.0.18, 7.0.34, 7.0.41)
m2e 1.1.0.20120530-0009
m2e-wtp 0.17.0.20130212-1821
Eclipse Web Developer Tools Version: 3.4.2.v201211061806-7O7MFu3EMkBK01NbrfU9ATE5cdZFz-OoeYjaI4d2

The app was working fine on an older macbook pro on osx 10.6.?. When the machine was replaced (and upgraded to osx 10.8.3) eclipse was copied from the old drive to the new and the problems started.

I have also now tried a few JDK versions (Java 7 latest and Java 6).

The full error from the eclipse log is like so

!ENTRY org.eclipse.wst.server.core 4 0 2013-06-26 09:53:16.077
!MESSAGE Could not publish to the server.
!STACK 0
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.FlatFile cannot be cast to org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.IFlatFolder
at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.VirtualComponentFlattenUtility.ensureParentExists(VirtualComponentFlattenUtility.java:216)
at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.VirtualComponentFlattenUtility.addMembers(VirtualComponentFlattenUtility.java:50)
at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.FlatVirtualComponent.addNonChildUsedReference(FlatVirtualComponent.java:400)
at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.FlatVirtualComponent.addUsedReferences(FlatVirtualComponent.java:306)
at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.FlatVirtualComponent.treeWalk(FlatVirtualComponent.java:235)
at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.FlatVirtualComponent.cacheResources(FlatVirtualComponent.java:188)
at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.FlatVirtualComponent.fetchResources(FlatVirtualComponent.java:118)
at org.eclipse.wst.web.internal.deployables.FlatComponentDeployable.members(FlatComponentDeployable.java:227)
at org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.deployables.J2EEFlexProjDeployable.members(J2EEFlexProjDeployable.java:267)
at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.ModulePublishInfo.fillCache(ModulePublishInfo.java:294)
at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.ModulePublishInfo.getDelta(ModulePublishInfo.java:376)
at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.ServerPublishInfo.getDelta(ServerPublishInfo.java:366)
at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server.getPublishedResourceDelta(Server.java:1574)
at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.model.ServerBehaviourDelegate.getPublishedResourceDelta(ServerBehaviourDelegate.java:698)
at org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.internal.TomcatServerBehaviour.getPublishedResourceDelta(TomcatServerBehaviour.java:958)
at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.model.ServerBehaviourDelegate.computeDelta(ServerBehaviourDelegate.java:874)
at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.model.ServerBehaviourDelegate.publish(ServerBehaviourDelegate.java:909)
at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.model.ServerBehaviourDelegate.publish(ServerBehaviourDelegate.java:774)
at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server.publishImpl(Server.java:3153)
at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server$PublishJob.run(Server.java:345)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)

Re: FlatFile cannot be cast to IFlatFolder [message #1065586 is a reply to message #1065559]

Wed, 26 June 2013 11:19

Eclipse User

More interesting notes. I find that if I re-checkout the app to a new directory it will work with the same Eclipse/WTP/etc so the problem has to be with one of the files in the project under the .settings or the .metadata. haven't found the smoking gun yet though

Re: FlatFile cannot be cast to IFlatFolder [message #1129285 is a reply to message #1065586]

Tue, 08 October 2013 09:32

Eclipse User

Same problem for me.
My guess is that "something" (maven for eclipse I suppose) changes the file .settings\org.eclipse.wst.common.component

Here is my version that works:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project-modules id="moduleCoreId" project-version="1.5.0">
<wb-module deploy-name="beeNotesGallery">
<property name="context-root" value="beeNotesGallery"/>
<wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="src/main/webapp" tag="defaultRootSource"/>
<wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="target/classes"/>
<wb-resource deploy-path="/docs" source-path="/target/site"/>
<property name="java-output-path" value="target/classes"/>
<wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" source-path="target/beeNotesGallery/WEB-INF/lib"/>
<wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/target/m2e-wtp/web-resources"/>
</wb-module>
</project-modules>

This working version is automatically changed into the one below that produced the problem in the title:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project-modules id="moduleCoreId" project-version="1.5.0">
<wb-module deploy-name="beeNotesGallery">
<dependent-module archiveName="beeNotesGallery-HTMLHelper-1.0.0.jar" deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" handle="module:/resource/beeNotesGalleryHTMLHelper/beeNotesGalleryHTMLHelper">
<dependency-type>uses</dependency-type>
</dependent-module>
<dependent-module archiveName="beeNotesGallery-httprequest-1.4.17.jar" deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" handle="module:/resource/beeNotesGallery-httprequest/beeNotesGallery-httprequest">
<dependency-type>uses</dependency-type>
</dependent-module>
<dependent-module archiveName="beeNotesGallery-MQTTHelper-1.0.0.jar" deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" handle="module:/resource/beeNotesGallery-MQTTHelper/beeNotesGallery-MQTTHelper">
<dependency-type>uses</dependency-type>
</dependent-module>
<dependent-module archiveName="beeNotesGallery-SandboxFilter-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" handle="module:/resource/beeNotesGallery-SandboxFilter/beeNotesGallery-SandboxFilter">
<dependency-type>uses</dependency-type>
</dependent-module>
<dependent-module archiveName="beeNotesGallery-TagletPackager-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" handle="module:/resource/beeNotesGallery-TagletPackager/beeNotesGallery-TagletPackager">
<dependency-type>uses</dependency-type>
</dependent-module>
<dependent-module archiveName="beeNotesGallery-utildaw-2.0.2.jar" deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" handle="module:/resource/beeNotesGallery-utildaw/beeNotesGallery-utildaw">
<dependency-type>uses</dependency-type>
</dependent-module>
<dependent-module deploy-path="/" handle="module:/overlay/var/M2_REPO/com/digitalairways/beeNotesGallery-Login/1.0-SNAPSHOT/beeNotesGallery-Login-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war?unpackFolder=target/m2e-wtp/overlays&includes=**/**&excludes=META-INF/MANIFEST.MF">
<dependency-type>consumes</dependency-type>
</dependent-module>
<dependent-module deploy-path="/" handle="module:/overlay/slf/?includes=**/**&excludes=META-INF/MANIFEST.MF">
<dependency-type>consumes</dependency-type>
</dependent-module>
<property name="context-root" value="beeNotesGallery"/>
<wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="src/main/webapp" tag="defaultRootSource"/>
<wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="target/classes"/>
<wb-resource deploy-path="/docs" source-path="/target/site"/>
<property name="java-output-path" value="target/classes"/>
<wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" source-path="target/beeNotesGallery/WEB-INF/lib"/>
<wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/target/m2e-wtp/web-resources"/>
</wb-module>
</project-modules>

Thanks to BeyondCompare.exe and SVN to help tracking these problems.

This is a workaroung, not a fix. Who has the fix?

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