Scanning fails when we pass as parameter -r ../cookbook/demo

[cmoulliard]

Issue

The CLI fails to process an application when we pass as parameter -r ../cookbook/demo and when we use a rule file with a rules's list

// from root of the project
❯ mvn -pl migration-cli quarkus:dev -Dquarkus.args="analyze ../applications/demo-spring-boot-todo-app -r ../cookbook/demo -o json"

Console's Error

2025-11-03 14:16:45,970 INFO  [dev.sno.ana.JdtLsClient] (ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-5) ==== CLIENT: --- Command params: ExecuteCommandParams [
  workDoneToken = null
  command = "io.konveyor.tackle.ruleEntry"
  arguments = List12 (
    {query=dummy.SpringApplication, project=java, location=4, analysisMode=source-only}
  )
].

2025-11-03 14:16:45,970 INFO  [dev.sno.ana.JdtLsClient] (ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-5) ==== CLIENT: --- Search Results found for rule: 000-springboot-annotation-notfound.
2025-11-03 14:16:45,971 INFO  [dev.sno.ana.JdtLsClient] (ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-5) ==== CLIENT: --- JSON response: []
2025-11-03 14:16:45,971 INFO  [dev.sno.ana.JdtLsClient] (ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-5) ==== CLIENT: SymbolInformation List is empty.
2025-11-03 14:16:45,971 INFO  [dev.sno.ana.JdtLsClient] (ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-5) ==== CLIENT: ----------------------
2025-11-03 14:16:45,971 INFO  [dev.sno.ana.JdtLsClient] (Quarkus Main Thread) ==== CLIENT: Sending the command 'io.konveyor.tackle.ruleEntry' ...
2025-11-03 14:16:45,972 WARN  [dev.sno.ana.uti.RuleUtils] (Quarkus Main Thread) Unknown location type '{}', defaulting to 0
2025-11-03 14:16:45,972 ERROR [dev.sno.com.AnalyzeCommand] (Quarkus Main Thread) ❌ Error: null
2025-11-03 14:16:45,975 INFO  [io.quarkus] (Quarkus Main Thread) migration-cli stopped in 0.002s

Investigation

• The code parsing the folder containing the rules and the rule content works without any issue as we got from an example with 5 rules a List of 5 Rule

    public List<Rule> loadRules(Path rulesPath, String sourceTech, String targetTech) throws IOException {
        List<Rule> rules = parseRulesFromFolder(rulesPath); // OK

• The error occurs when the following simple query pom.dependency is (gavs='org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web') is processed by QueryVisitor visitor = QueryUtils.parseAndVisit(rule.when().condition());

The current code is unable to process a rule using the jdt-ls scanner when the query try to search in a maven pom.xml file a dependency as code is not implemented within their bundle https://github.com/konveyor/java-analyzer-bundle AND our Poc don't run another language server or use builtin search capabilities.