Arquillian Error: ArchiveExportException

I ran into a baffling error the other day while working with Arquillian. I added Arquillian to a simple project requiring only the Java SE container for some “lite” CDI injection. However, when I went to run the unit tests, they failed:

 

[code lang=’java’]
org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.exporter.ArchiveExportException: File could not be created: target/test.jar
at org.jboss.shrinkwrap.impl.base.exporter.AbstractStreamExporterImpl.getOutputStreamToFile(AbstractStreamExporterImpl.java:95)
at org.jboss.shrinkwrap.impl.base.exporter.AbstractStreamExporterImpl.exportTo(AbstractStreamExporterImpl.java:144)
at org.jboss.arquillian.container.se.managed.ManagedSEDeployableContainer.materializeArchive(ManagedSEDeployableContainer.java:294)
at org.jboss.arquillian.container.se.managed.ManagedSEDeployableContainer.deploy(ManagedSEDeployableContainer.java:191)
[/code]

This didn’t make any sense as the output directories were all writeable etc. I had another similar project that worked. Comparing both projects, I eventually added  a barebones arquillian.xml config file. That did the trick! The magic appears toe be the deploymentExportPath – not sure why this is needed.

[code lang=’xml’]
<arquillian xmlns="http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian&quot;
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot;
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian
http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian/arquillian_1_0.xsd"&gt;
<engine>
<property name="deploymentExportPath">target/deployments</property>
</engine>
</arquillian>

[/code]

Background on project:

  • Gradle build
  • Arquillian dependencies:
    • org.jboss.arquillian:arquillian-bom:1.4.0.Final
    • org.jboss.arquillian.junit:arquillian-junit-container:1.4.0.Final
    • org.jboss.arquillian.container:container-se-managed:1.0.2.Final
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