Change GradleDependency recipe throws recipe validation error

[andyvady]

What version of OpenRewrite are you using?

I am using

• OpenRewrite v8.47.1
• Gradle v8.12.1
• rewrite-gradle v8.47.3

How are you running OpenRewrite?

Single module project. Using rewrite-gradle plugin

Can you share your configuration so that we can rule out any configuration issues?
Copied sample spec from https://docs.openrewrite.org/recipes/gradle/changedependency#usage

---

type: specs.openrewrite.org/v1beta/recipe
name: com.yourorg.ChangeDependencyExample
displayName: Change Gradle dependency example
recipeList:

• org.openrewrite.gradle.ChangeDependency:
  oldGroupId: org.openrewrite.recipe
  oldArtifactId: rewrite-testing-frameworks
  newGroupId: corp.internal.openrewrite.recipe
  newArtifactId: rewrite-testing-frameworks
  newVersion: 29.X
  versionPattern: '-jre'

Is your project public? If so, can you share a link to it?
Executed the sample recipe via IntelliJ using OpenRewrite plugin

What is the smallest, simplest way to reproduce the problem?

• Clone the recipe-starter-kit repo: https://github.com/moderneinc/rewrite-recipe-starter
• Copy the sample recipe for ChangeDependency and paste in under src/main/resources/META-INF/rewrite/
• Execute the recipe

What did you expect to see?

Expected to see the recipe executed successfully, even if there were no changes to report.

What did you see instead?

Exception on execution

What is the full stack trace of any errors you encountered?

Recipe validation error in org.openrewrite.gradle.ChangeDependency: Unable to load Recipe: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot find a (Map) Key deserializer for type [simple type, class org.openrewrite.maven.tree.ResolvedDependency]
 at [Source: UNKNOWN; byte offset: #UNKNOWN]
Recipe validation errors detected as part of one or more activeRecipe(s). Execution will continue regardless.
All sources parsed, running active recipes: com.yourorg.ChangeDependencyExample

[andyvady]

Tried the Run this recipe here feature and it fails with the same exception: link

java.io.UncheckedIOException: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidDefinitionException: Cannot find a (Map) Key deserializer for type [simple type, class org.openrewrite.maven.tree.Dependency] at [Source: UNKNOWN; byte offset: #UNKNOWN] Caused by com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidDefinitionException: Cannot find a (Map) Key deserializer for type [simple type, class org.openrewrite.maven.tree.Dependency] at [Source: UNKNOWN; byte offset: #UNKNOWN] com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidDefinitionException.from(InvalidDefinitionException.java:67) com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.reportBadDefinition(DeserializationContext.java:1887) com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._handleUnknownKeyDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:638) com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache.findKeyDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:198) com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.findKeyDeserializer(DeserializationContext.java:696) com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.MapDeserializer.createContextual(MapDeserializer.java:314) com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.handlePrimaryContextualization(DeserializationContext.java:851) com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.resolve(BeanDeserializerBase.java:561) ...

[knutwannheden]

The problem here is that we are using Jackson to update the recipe options and this recipe happens to have some transient fields, which Jackson chokes on. We should invoke this method on the MapperBuilder: configure(MapperFeature.PROPAGATE_TRANSIENT_MARKER, true).

Also note that it is not only the fact that the recipe has a transient field that causes trouble. It is also that this field is of a Map type for which no key serializer has been registered with the Map's key type.