Jenkins Pipeline NotSerializableException: groovy.json.internal.LazyMap

Question

Solved: Thanks to below answer from S.Richmond. I needed to unset all stored maps of the groovy.json.internal.LazyMap type which meant nullifying the variables envServers and object after use.

Additional: People searching for this error might be interested to use the Jenkins pipeline step readJSON instead - find more info here.

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I am trying to use Jenkins Pipeline to take input from the user which is passed to the job as json string. Pipeline then parses this using the slurper and I pick out the important information. It will then use that information to run 1 job multiple times in parallel with differeing job parameters.

Up until I add the code below "## Error when below here is added" the script will run fine. Even the code below that point will run on its own. But when combined I get the below error.

I should note that the triggered job is called and does run succesfully but the below error occurs and fails the main job. Because of this the main job does not wait for the return of the triggered job. I could try/catch around the build job: however I want the main job to wait for the triggered job to finish.

Can anyone assist here? If you need anymore information let me know.

Cheers

def slurpJSON() {
return new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText(BUILD_CHOICES);
}

node {
  stage 'Prepare';
  echo 'Loading choices as build properties';
  def object = slurpJSON();

  def serverChoices = [];
  def serverChoicesStr = '';

  for (env in object) {
     envName = env.name;
     envServers = env.servers;

     for (server in envServers) {
        if (server.Select) {
            serverChoicesStr += server.Server;
            serverChoicesStr += ',';
        }
     }
  }
  serverChoicesStr = serverChoicesStr[0..-2];

  println("Server choices: " + serverChoicesStr);

  ## Error when below here is added

  stage 'Jobs'
  build job: 'Dummy Start App', parameters: [[$class: 'StringParameterValue', name: 'SERVER_NAME', value: 'TestServer'], [$class: 'StringParameterValue', name: 'SERVER_DOMAIN', value: 'domain.uk'], [$class: 'StringParameterValue', name: 'APP', value: 'application1']]

}

Error:

java.io.NotSerializableException: groovy.json.internal.LazyMap
    at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:860)
    at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject(RiverMarshaller.java:569)
    at org.jboss.marshalling.river.BlockMarshaller.doWriteObject(BlockMarshaller.java:65)
    at org.jboss.marshalling.river.BlockMarshaller.writeObject(BlockMarshaller.java:56)
    at org.jboss.marshalling.MarshallerObjectOutputStream.writeObjectOverride(MarshallerObjectOutputStream.java:50)
    at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverObjectOutputStream.writeObjectOverride(RiverObjectOutputStream.java:179)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.LinkedHashMap.internalWriteEntries(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.HashMap.writeObject(Unknown Source)
...
...
Caused by: an exception which occurred:
    in field delegate
    in field closures
    in object org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup@5288c

Answer 1

Use JsonSlurperClassic instead.

Since Groovy 2.3 (note: Jenkins 2.7.1 uses Groovy 2.4.7) JsonSlurper returns LazyMap instead of HashMap. This makes new implementation of JsonSlurper not thread safe and not serializable. This makes it unusable outside of @NonDSL functions in pipeline DSL scripts.

However you can fall-back to groovy.json.JsonSlurperClassic which supports old behavior and could be safely used within pipeline scripts.

Example

import groovy.json.JsonSlurperClassic 


@NonCPS
def jsonParse(def json) {
    new groovy.json.JsonSlurperClassic().parseText(json)
}

node('master') {
    def config =  jsonParse(readFile("config.json"))

    def db = config["database"]["address"]
    ...
}    

ps. You still will need to approve JsonSlurperClassic before it could be called.