kobaltw --init kotlin failes to download kobalt zip

I am using: Ubuntu 16.04 with the latest updates installed. openjdk 11.0.3 2019-04-16 LTS - installed via SDKMAN Kotlin version 1.3.40-release-123 (JRE 11.0.3+7-LTS) - installed via SDKMAN

I just downloaded kobalt for the first time (1.0.123), unzipped it, and added it to my path. From my project directory (it’s a kotlin project), I ran kobaltw --init kotlin, and here is the output:

[Wrapper] Warning: couldn't download https://beust.com/kobalt/kobalt-1.0.123.zip
[Wrapper] Warning: couldn't download https://beust.com/kobalt/kobalt-1.0.123.zip
[Wrapper] Warning: couldn't download https://beust.com/kobalt/kobalt-1.0.123.zip
Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /home/jesse/.kobalt/wrapper/dist/kobalt-1.0.123.zip
	at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:92)
	at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:111)
	at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:116)
	at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileAttributeViews$Basic.readAttributes(UnixFileAttributeViews.java:55)
	at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.readAttributes(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:145)
	at java.base/sun.nio.fs.LinuxFileSystemProvider.readAttributes(LinuxFileSystemProvider.java:99)
	at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.readAttributes(Files.java:1763)
	at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$Source.get(ZipFile.java:1225)
	at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$CleanableResource.<init>(ZipFile.java:727)
	at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$CleanableResource.get(ZipFile.java:844)
	at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:247)
	at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:177)
	at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:191)
	at com.beust.kobalt.wrapper.Main.extractZipFile(Main.java:335)
	at com.beust.kobalt.wrapper.Main.installDistribution(Main.java:188)
	at com.beust.kobalt.wrapper.Main.installAndLaunchMain(Main.java:81)
	at com.beust.kobalt.wrapper.Main.main(Main.java:17)

Despite the error, a few changes to my files did appear. My project directory now has a kobalt/ directory with a wrapper/ subdirectory with a kobalt-wrapper.properties file inside. I also notice my home directory has a .kobalt/ directory with a wrapper/ subdirectory with a dist/ subdirectory (where it was trying to download the zip), but there are no files or anything else there.

[cbeust]

That’s a great rant 😃

I still think Kobalt has a more tractable DSL and plug-in model overall, but obviously, I’m biased. I just can’t dedicate that much time on it any more, unless it starts gaining traction, which is probably unlikely.

Just today, and these past two days, I’ve had to wrestle with Gradle’s arcane build syntax and all its caveats and oddities, copy/pasting snippets of build files from StackOverflow in the hope that it will work (9/10 times, it doesn’t because these answers are obsolete and Gradle introduced breaking changes since then). Even maintaining the Google search results to just the past year yields outdated answers. It’s maddening.

Anyway. Sorry you are being frustrated, I am too. I hate yak shaving. I want to write code and have tools magically work. But that seems to be too much to ask in 2020.

There’s always 2025.

[cbeust]

Fixed in 1.0.125. Your next ./kobaltw assemble should update to 1.0.125 and fix that problem.