Nashorn exception when using HibernateValidator's ScriptAssert on Java8 - java-8

Question

We are in the process of switching from Java 7 to Java 8 ( about time I think :-)) and we are getting issues where we used HibernateValidator's ScriptAssert. Looks like Nashorn Javascript engine is not initialized properly
The ScriptAssert is used as follows
#ScriptAssert(
lang = "javascript",
script = "_this.owner != null && _this.owner.id != null"
+ " && _this.owner.id.matches('^[0-9A-F]{8}-[0-9A-F]{4}-[1-5][0-9A-
F]{3}-[89AB][0-9A-F]{3}-[0-9A-F]{12}$')"
)
What we are getting is an exception like below, This happens on JDK1.8.0_131 on Linux.
Any help would be appreciated. Following is the stack trace.
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.invokeExact(Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;)V
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.AccessorProperty.invokeSetter(AccessorProperty.java:462)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.AccessorProperty.setValue(AccessorProperty.java:485)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptObject.erasePropertyValue(ScriptObject.java:916)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptObject.deleteOwnProperty(ScriptObject.java:928)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptFunction.createBuiltin(ScriptFunction.java:324)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptFunction.createBuiltin(ScriptFunction.java:339)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptFunction.createBuiltin(ScriptFunction.java:350)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.objects.NativeFunction$Prototype.(Unknown
Source) ~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.objects.NativeFunction$Constructor.(Unknown
Source) ~[nashorn.jar:?]
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
~[?:1.8.0_131]
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
~[?:1.8.0_131]
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
~[?:1.8.0_131]
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
~[?:1.8.0_131]
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442) ~[?:1.8.0_131]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.objects.Global.initConstructor(Global.java:2549)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.objects.Global.initFunctionAndObject(Global.java:2618)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.objects.Global.init(Global.java:2257) ~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.objects.Global.initBuiltinObjects(Global.java:1094)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.Context.initGlobal(Context.java:1150)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngine.createNashornGlobal(NashornScriptEngine.java:360)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngine.(NashornScriptEngine.java:143)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngineFactory.getScriptEngine(NashornScriptEngineFactory.java:148)
~[nashorn.jar:?]
at javax.script.ScriptEngineManager.getEngineByName(ScriptEngineManager.java:238)
~[?:1.8.0_131]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.util.scriptengine.ScriptEvaluatorFactory.createNewScriptEvaluator(ScriptEvaluatorFactory.java:87)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.util.scriptengine.ScriptEvaluatorFactory.getScriptEvaluatorByLanguageName(ScriptEvaluatorFactory.java:70)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.constraintvalidators.hv.ScriptAssertContext.getScriptEvaluator(ScriptAssertContext.java:60)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.constraintvalidators.hv.ScriptAssertContext.(ScriptAssertContext.java:34)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.constraintvalidators.hv.ScriptAssertValidator.initialize(ScriptAssertValidator.java:43)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.constraintvalidators.hv.ScriptAssertValidator.initialize(ScriptAssertValidator.java:28)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintValidatorManager.initializeValidator(ConstraintValidatorManager.java:225)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintValidatorManager.createAndInitializeValidator(ConstraintValidatorManager.java:151)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintValidatorManager.getInitializedValidator(ConstraintValidatorManager.java:109)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintTree.getConstraintValidatorNoUnwrapping(ConstraintTree.java:301)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintTree.getConstraintValidatorInstanceForAutomaticUnwrapping(ConstraintTree.java:242)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintTree.getInitializedConstraintValidator(ConstraintTree.java:163)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintTree.validateConstraints(ConstraintTree.java:116)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.constraintvalidation.ConstraintTree.validateConstraints(ConstraintTree.java:87)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.core.MetaConstraint.validateConstraint(MetaConstraint.java:73)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateMetaConstraint(ValidatorImpl.java:616)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraint(ValidatorImpl.java:581)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraintsForNonDefaultGroup(ValidatorImpl.java:543)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraintsForCurrentGroup(ValidatorImpl.java:457)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateInContext(ValidatorImpl.java:410)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorImpl.validate(ValidatorImpl.java:207)
~[hibernate-validator-5.4.1.Final.jar:5.4.1.Final]
at org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.SpringValidatorAdapter.validate(SpringValidatorAdapter.java:108)
~[spring-context-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.validation.DataBinder.validate(DataBinder.java:781)
~[spring-context-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]