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Example of an invalid casing for a Global Variable in a Pipeline Shared Library
Started by user rtyler
org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
WorkflowScript: 2: unexpected token: Mr Jenkins @ line 2, column 14.
SayHello "Mr Jenkins"
^
1 error
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.failIfErrors(ErrorCollector.java:310)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.addFatalError(ErrorCollector.java:150)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.addError(ErrorCollector.java:120)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.addError(ErrorCollector.java:132)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.SourceUnit.addError(SourceUnit.java:360)
at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.AntlrParserPlugin.transformCSTIntoAST(AntlrParserPlugin.java:145)
at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.AntlrParserPlugin.parseCST(AntlrParserPlugin.java:111)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.SourceUnit.parse(SourceUnit.java:237)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit$1.call(CompilationUnit.java:167)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.applyToSourceUnits(CompilationUnit.java:931)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.doPhaseOperation(CompilationUnit.java:593)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.processPhaseOperations(CompilationUnit.java:569)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.compile(CompilationUnit.java:546)
at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.doParseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:298)
at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.parseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:268)
at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.parseClass(GroovyShell.java:688)
at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.parse(GroovyShell.java:700)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsGroovyShell.reparse(CpsGroovyShell.java:67)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsFlowExecution.parseScript(CpsFlowExecution.java:429)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsFlowExecution.start(CpsFlowExecution.java:392)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.job.WorkflowRun.run(WorkflowRun.java:221)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:404)
Finished: FAILURE
node {
SayHello "Mr Jenkins"
}
#!/usr/bin/env groovy
def call(name) {
echo "Hello the ${name}"
}
@mhedgpeth
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I get this same error but my casing is correct. Is there a good way to troubleshoot this?

@bitwiseman
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@mhedgpeth did you get an answer to this?

@joshbranham
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The variable name should be sayHello or similar, per the docs: https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/shared-libraries/#defining-custom-steps

@anilpujaraofficial
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