“Unexpected line” exception when using component load rules for RTC Jazz build engine

Question

I have a component named MyComponent with the following folder structure in RTC:

/MyProject
/MyProject/TestFile.txt
/MyProject/Folder1
/MyProject/Folder1/loadrules.txt
/MyProject/Folder1/TestFile2.txt

And this is what I have in my loadrules.txt file::

versionableName=/MyProject/TestFile.txt

I've specified the loadrules.txt file in my build definition for this component as the component load rule, but when the build runs, I'm getting the following exception when it tries to fetch the files:

com.ibm.team.repository.common.TeamRepositoryException: Unexpected line "versionableName=/MyProject/TestFile.txt" encountered in build load rules for component "MyComponent"
    at com.ibm.team.filesystem.client.internal.load.LoadRule.getRules(LoadRule.java:176)
    at com.ibm.team.filesystem.client.internal.load.LoadRule.addLoadRules(LoadRule.java:101)
    at com.ibm.team.build.internal.scm.ComponentLoadRules.getLoadRules(ComponentLoadRules.java:134)
    at com.ibm.team.build.internal.engine.JazzScmPreBuildParticipant.preBuild(JazzScmPreBuildParticipant.java:235)
    at com.ibm.team.build.internal.engine.BuildLoop.invokePreBuildParticipants(BuildLoop.java:844)
    at com.ibm.team.build.internal.engine.BuildLoop$2.run(BuildLoop.java:650)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I've tried following the example here but I can't figure why it's not working for me. Regardless of what I put in the loadrules.txt file (nothing/empty string, random garbage text, etc.), I still get this exception for the first line of the file.

This is in RTC 3.0

Answer 1

This kind of error is likely to be an encoding issue.

One way to test that is to create the loadrules.txt through the scm command-line interface, as detailed in "Reference > Source control command line reference > scm > create"

 scm create loadrules [options]

The OP holic87 confirms:

I just used Notepad++ to recreate the text file and it's working as expected now.