sbt 0.13.8 URI has an authority component

Question

I get this error when running sbt in a sbt project. I have JDK 8 and sbt 0.13.8. I can run activator command without a problem but I need sbt working because my IDE (IntelliJ IDEA) uses it to load the project.

E:\work\workspace\knowlege\play-scala-di>sbt
    Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI has an authority component
    at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:423)
    at sbt.Classpaths$.sbt$Classpaths$$bootRepository(Defaults.scala:1758)
    at sbt.Classpaths$$anonfun$appRepositories$1.apply(Defaults.scala:1729)
    at sbt.Classpaths$$anonfun$appRepositories$1.apply(Defaults.scala:1729)
    at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244)
            at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244)
            at scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:33)
    at scala.collection.mutable.WrappedArray.foreach(WrappedArray.scala:34)
    at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:244)
    at scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.map(Traversable.scala:105)
    at sbt.Classpaths$.appRepositories(Defaults.scala:1729)
    at sbt.Classpaths$$anonfun$41.apply(Defaults.scala:1102)
    at sbt.Classpaths$$anonfun$41.apply(Defaults.scala:1102)
    at scala.Function1$$anonfun$compose$1.apply(Function1.scala:47)
    at scala.Function1$$anonfun$compose$1.apply(Function1.scala:47)
    at sbt.EvaluateSettings$MixedNode.evaluate0(INode.scala:175)
    at sbt.EvaluateSettings$INode.evaluate(INode.scala:135)
    at sbt.EvaluateSettings$$anonfun$sbt$EvaluateSettings$$submitEvaluate$1.apply$mcV$sp(INode.scala:69)
    at sbt.EvaluateSettings.sbt$EvaluateSettings$$run0(INode.scala:78)
    at sbt.EvaluateSettings$$anon$3.run(INode.scala:74)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
    [error] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI has an authority component

Pup

Would you share build.sbt, please? – Twoedged

I got rid of it when deleted ~/.sbt/ folder in your profile folder. – Sakti

Thanks for your question! The Jason Touhey's answer helped me. – Exhibitive

Answer 1

The URI that activator adds to sbt repository list is lacking a third slash.

Open C:\Users\[USER]\.sbt\repositories

Add a third slash (i.e. activator-launcher-local: file:///${activator.local.repository-${activator.home-${user.home}/.activator}/repository}, [organization]/[module]/(scala_[scalaVersion]/)(sbt_[sbtVersion]/)[revision]/[type]s/artifact.[ext])

Backhanded

Thanks, there were two "file://" that I had to change to "file:///" – Suez

Hi I have the same problem and I think that it does not worth another question: how can I chnage that? I mean file:// to file:/// – Monostylous

Was trying to get the 2.4.1 play framework up and running using the example java app. Activator was having similar issues and now works thanks to the additional slash. – Verity

If you don't have the ~/.sbt/repositories file, delete the ~/.sbt/ dir and run activator again. This should create it for you. Then adding the / does fix this issue. – Absa

saved hours of useless troubleshooting. posts like this are invaluable. i wonder how these issues come about. – Idellaidelle

Answer 2

I just removed the .sbt folder in C:\Users[USER]\ and the play project was imported successfully into intellij.

Sumatra

Answer 3

The solution is a bit trickier (you need to re-insert the slash every time). See here: https://github.com/typesafehub/activator/issues/1037

Olivares

Yes I have to do this every day, whats the solution for this? – Camail

I don't have a file called repositories in my .sbt folder I am using activator 1.3.5 – Lucania

Answer 4

This is still an issue with Windows and the fix is to replace file:// with file:/// and doing so is super annoying so a good workaround is to setup a simple ant build.xml in the project root.

<project name="someName" default="run" basedir=".">
    <description>
        Fix sbt repositories
    </description>
    <property name="sbtrepo" location="${user.home}/.sbt/repositories"/>
    <target name="fixsbt">
        <replace file="${sbtrepo}" token="file://$" value="file:///$"/>
    </target>
    <target name="run" depends="fixsbt">
        <exec executable="C:\dev\Git\git-bash.exe" spawn="true">
            <arg line="-c 'activator run'" />
        </exec>
    </target>
</project>

You can either run the fixsbt target alone to do the file replace, or use the run target to fix the repositories file and then run activator. This example uses gitbash shell to run the command so you'll need to change the shell/path for your environment.

Locklear