Google config parsing failed #6826
Description
Bug report
Expected behavior and actual behavior
Nextflow 26.01.1-edge cannot resolve config variables in the google context. This issue does not exist on Nextflow 25.10.4.
Steps to reproduce the problem
Run any Nextflow workflow with the following config file (e.g. nextflow -C test.config run main.nf):
google.location = "us-west1"
google.batch.subnetwork = "regions/${google.location}/subnetworks/default"
Program output
The error looks like the following:
N E X T F L O W ~ version 26.01.1-edge
Error test.config:2:38: `google` is not defined
│ 2 | google.batch.subnetwork = "regions/${google.location}/subnetworks/defa
╰ | ^^^^^^
ERROR ~ Config parsing failed
-- Check '.nextflow.log' file for details
Here is .nextflow.log:
Feb-12 01:06:31.526 [main] DEBUG nextflow.cli.Launcher - $> nextflow -C nextflow_temp/test_installation/test.config run nextflow_temp/test_installation/main.nf
Feb-12 01:06:31.583 [main] DEBUG nextflow.cli.CmdRun - N E X T F L O W ~ version 26.01.1-edge
Feb-12 01:06:31.603 [main] DEBUG nextflow.plugin.PluginsFacade - Setting up plugin manager > mode=prod; embedded=false; plugins-dir=/Users/<>/.nextflow/plugins; core-plugins: nf-amazon@3.7.0,nf-azure@1.21.0,nf-cloudcache@0.6.0,nf-codecommit@0.5.0,nf-console@1.3.0,nf-google@1.26.0,nf-k8s@1.5.0,nf-tower@1.20.0,nf-wave@1.18.0
Feb-12 01:06:31.618 [main] INFO o.pf4j.DefaultPluginStatusProvider - Enabled plugins: []
Feb-12 01:06:31.619 [main] INFO o.pf4j.DefaultPluginStatusProvider - Disabled plugins: []
Feb-12 01:06:31.620 [main] INFO org.pf4j.DefaultPluginManager - PF4J version 3.12.0 in 'deployment' mode
Feb-12 01:06:31.626 [main] DEBUG nextflow.util.RetryConfig - Missing nextflow session - using default retry config
Feb-12 01:06:31.690 [main] INFO org.pf4j.AbstractPluginManager - No plugins
Feb-12 01:06:31.703 [main] DEBUG nextflow.config.ConfigBuilder - Parsing config file: /Users/<>/nextflow_temp/test_installation/test.config
Feb-12 01:06:31.704 [main] DEBUG nextflow.config.ConfigParserFactory - Using config parser v2
Feb-12 01:06:31.711 [main] DEBUG nextflow.config.ConfigBuilder - Applying config profile: `standard`
Feb-12 01:06:31.797 [main] ERROR nextflow.cli.Launcher - Config parsing failed
nextflow.exception.ConfigParseException: Config parsing failed
at nextflow.config.parser.v2.ConfigParserV2.parse(ConfigParserV2.groovy:154)
at org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v8.IndyInterface.fromCache(IndyInterface.java:321)
at nextflow.config.parser.v2.ConfigParserV2.parse(ConfigParserV2.groovy:184)
at org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v8.IndyInterface.fromCache(IndyInterface.java:321)
at nextflow.config.ConfigBuilder.parse0(ConfigBuilder.groovy:454)
at org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v8.IndyInterface.fromCache(IndyInterface.java:321)
at nextflow.config.ConfigBuilder.merge0(ConfigBuilder.groovy:439)
at org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v8.IndyInterface.fromCache(IndyInterface.java:321)
at nextflow.config.ConfigBuilder.buildConfig0(ConfigBuilder.groovy:395)
at org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v8.IndyInterface.fromCache(IndyInterface.java:321)
at nextflow.config.ConfigBuilder.buildGivenFiles(ConfigBuilder.groovy:336)
at org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v8.IndyInterface.fromCache(IndyInterface.java:321)
at nextflow.config.ConfigBuilder.buildConfigObject(ConfigBuilder.groovy:833)
at org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v8.IndyInterface.fromCache(IndyInterface.java:321)
at nextflow.config.ConfigBuilder.build(ConfigBuilder.groovy:846)
at nextflow.cli.CmdRun.run(CmdRun.groovy:362)
at nextflow.cli.Launcher.run(Launcher.groovy:515)
at nextflow.cli.Launcher.main(Launcher.groovy:675)
Caused by: org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
_nf_config_968b9ac46f029ea6: 2: `google` is not defined @ line 2, column 38.
google.batch.subnetwork = "regions/${google.location}/subnetworks/default"
^
1 error
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector.failIfErrors(ErrorCollector.java:292)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit$ISourceUnitOperation.doPhaseOperation(CompilationUnit.java:878)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.processPhaseOperations(CompilationUnit.java:660)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.compile(CompilationUnit.java:634)
at nextflow.config.parser.v2.ConfigCompiler.compile0(ConfigCompiler.java:112)
at nextflow.config.parser.v2.ConfigCompiler.compile(ConfigCompiler.java:97)
at nextflow.config.parser.v2.ConfigParserV2.parse(ConfigParserV2.groovy:133)
... 17 common frames omitted
Environment
- Nextflow version: 26.01.1-edge
- Java version: openjdk version "21.0.7" 2025-04-15 LTS
- Operating system: macOS
- Bash version: zsh 5.9 (arm64-apple-darwin25.0)