codenarc fails on Windows with AssertionError: Invalid argument format: [Stamps]

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$ mvn codenarc:codenarc
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------< ru.mystamps:mystamps >------------------------
[INFO] Building My Stamps 0.3-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] --------------------------------[ war ]---------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- codenarc-maven-plugin:0.22-1:codenarc (default-cli) @ mystamps ---
[INFO] sourceDirectory is C:\Users\slava\git\mystamps\src\test\groovy
[INFO] sourceDirectory is C:\Users\slava\git\mystamps\src\test\groovy
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codenarc/CodeNarc/0.27.0/CodeNarc-0.27.0.jar
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codenarc/CodeNarc/0.27.0/CodeNarc-0.27.0.jar (4.3 MB at 909 kB/s)
     [java] ERROR: Invalid argument format: [Stamps]. Expression: matcher. Values: matcher = java.util.regex.Matcher[pattern=\-(.*)\=(.*) region=0,6 lastmatch=]
     [java] java.lang.AssertionError: Invalid argument format: [Stamps]. Expression: matcher. Values: matcher = java.util.regex.Matcher[pattern=\-(.*)\=(.*) region=0,6 lastmatch=]
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.assertFailed(InvokerHelper.java:401)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.assertFailed(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:655)
     [java]     at org.codenarc.CodeNarc$_parseArgs_closure3.doCall(CodeNarc.groovy:156)
     [java]     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     [java]     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
     [java]     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
     [java]     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:90)
     [java]     at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:233)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.ClosureMetaClass.invokeMethod(ClosureMetaClass.java:272)
     [java]     at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:906)
     [java]     at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:412)
     [java]     at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:425)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.DefaultGroovyMethods.each(DefaultGroovyMethods.java:1326)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.DefaultGroovyMethods.each(DefaultGroovyMethods.java:1298)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.dgm$148.invoke(Unknown Source)
     [java] CodeNarc - static analysis for Groovy',
     [java] Usage: java org.codenarc.CodeNarc [OPTIONS]
     [java]   where OPTIONS are zero or more command-line options of the form "-NAME[=VALUE]":
     [java]     -basedir=<DIR>
     [java]         The base (root) directory for the source code to be analyzed.
     [java]         Defaults to the current directory (".").
     [java]     -includes=<PATTERNS>
     [java]         The comma-separated list of Ant-style file patterns specifying files that must
     [java]         be included. Defaults to "**/*.groovy".
     [java]     -excludes=<PATTERNS>
     [java]         The comma-separated list of Ant-style file patterns specifying files that must
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PojoMetaMethodSite$PojoMetaMethodSiteNoUnwrapNoCoerce.invoke(PojoMetaMethodSite.java:271)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PojoMetaMethodSite.call(PojoMetaMethodSite.java:53)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:45)
     [java]         be excluded. No files are excluded when omitted.
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:108)
     [java]     -rulesetfiles=<FILENAMES>
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:116)
     [java]         The path to the Groovy or XML RuleSet definition files, relative to the classpath.
     [java]         This can be a single file path, or multiple paths separated by commas.
     [java]         Defaults to "rulesets/basic.xml"
     [java]     -title=<REPORT TITLE>
     [java]         The title descriptive for this analysis; used in the output report(s). Optional.
     [java]     -report=<REPORT-TYPE[:FILENAME]>
     [java]         The definition of the report to produce. The option value is of the form
     [java]         TYPE[:FILENAME], where TYPE is "html", "text", "xml", or "console" and FILENAME is the filename (with
     [java]         optional path) of the output report filename. If the report filename is
     [java]         omitted, the default filename is used for the specified report type
     [java]         ("CodeNarcReport.html" for "html" and "CodeNarcXmlReport.xml" for "xml"). If no
     [java]         report option is specified, default to a single "html" report with the
     [java]         default filename.
     [java]     -help
     [java]     at org.codenarc.CodeNarc.parseArgs(CodeNarc.groovy:153)
     [java]         Display the command-line help. If present, this must be the only command-line parameter.
     [java]   Example command-line invocations:
     [java]     java org.codenarc.CodeNarc
     [java]     at org.codenarc.CodeNarc.execute(CodeNarc.groovy:122)
     [java]     java org.codenarc.CodeNarc -rulesetfiles="rulesets/basic.xml" title="My Project"
     [java]     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     [java]     java org.codenarc.CodeNarc -report=xml:MyXmlReport.xml -report=html
     [java]     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
     [java]     java org.codenarc.CodeNarc -help'
     [java]     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
     [java]     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite$PogoCachedMethodSiteNoUnwrapNoCoerce.invoke(PogoMetaMethodSite.java:272)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaMethodSite.call(PogoMetaMethodSite.java:64)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:45)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:108)
     [java]     at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:116)
     [java]     at org.codenarc.CodeNarc.main(CodeNarc.groovy:111)
     [java] Java Result: 1
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 15.981 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2018-12-28T11:26:18Z
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

$ pwd
/c/Users/slava/git/mystamps

[jameswilliams1]

I just had a similar issue to this using codenarc on windows, check that any files you pass as arguments don't have spaces in the path (do you have a file that ends in Stamps by chance?).

[php-coder]

@jameswilliams1 Thank for the comment! As I don't use Windows and this is an old issue (3+ years), I don't care about it anymore and I hope that one day I will get rid of CodeNarc/Spock/Groovy from my project :)