Looks like there is one more place that uses TarArchiveOutputStream, it's org.testcontainers.images.builder.ImageFromDockerfile:124. But I'm not sure how to test it or whether it should be done at this time.
@kiview What do you think?

Thanks for rasing this PR @schmidt-galen-heb and thanks for pointing out the other relevant part in the code @batt842.

Could any of you run this test in your environment, so we see if we need the fix at this location as well?

Thanks for pointing that out. I ran the test with commons-compress 1.21 and it passed, however I still think that location needs to be updated as well.

In investigating that test, I was able to determine why the build started failing in 1.21:

From the original stacktrace:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: user id '<redacted>' is too big ( > 2097151 ).
	at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveOutputStream.failForBigNumber(TarArchiveOutputStream.java:651)
	at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveOutputStream.failForBigNumber(TarArchiveOutputStream.java:639)
	at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveOutputStream.failForBigNumbers(TarArchiveOutputStream.java:630)
	at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveOutputStream.putArchiveEntry(TarArchiveOutputStream.java:377)
	at org.testcontainers.utility.MountableFile.recursiveTar(MountableFile.java:327)
	at org.testcontainers.utility.MountableFile.transferTo(MountableFile.java:304)
	at org.testcontainers.containers.ContainerState.copyFileToContainer(ContainerState.java:276)
	at org.testcontainers.containers.ContainerState.copyFileToContainer(ContainerState.java:253)
	at java.base/java.util.LinkedHashMap.forEach(LinkedHashMap.java:684)
	at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.tryStart(GenericContainer.java:414)
	... 39 more

MountableFile uses the TarArchiveEntry(File, String) constructor to create the archive entry. In 1.20, this did not populate the user ID property, however in 1.21, they added a call to readOsSpecificProperties(...), which does populate the user ID.

So although the test passes, if a user were to call ImageFromDockerfile.withFileFromTransferable(...) with a MountableFile, it would fail.

@kiview Anything else you'd like from my side on this?

@schmidt-galen-heb
Thanks a lot, LGTM. Let the others have a look and then we merge 👍

This looks fine, but I'm confused by this comment by @schmidt-galen-heb:

So although the test passes, if a user were to call ImageFromDockerfile.withFileFromTransferable(...) with a MountableFile, it would fail.

Are you saying that this problem still exists, or it did exist but is now fixed? 😄

Are you saying that this problem still exists, or it did exist but is now fixed? 😄

Sorry, it did exist, but is fixed by the change in ImageFromDockerfile.java

Are you saying that this problem still exists, or it did exist but is now fixed? 😄

Sorry, it did exist, but is fixed by the change in ImageFromDockerfile.java

Great! Thanks for clarifying.

Currently still having this issue with version 1.16.1, was the fix pushed to the next release?

Hey @jayleenli, sorry to hear that, the fix is included in 1.16.1.

@schmidt-galen-heb @batt842 Can you verify, that the bug as you observed it is fixed in 1.16.1?

Hey @kiview, I can confirm that upgrading to 1.16.1 resolved the issue for me

@kiview It works for me too.
Thanks @schmidt-galen-heb

I still have this issue on version 1.16.2 and MacOS:

Caused by: org.testcontainers.containers.ContainerFetchException: Can't get Docker image: RemoteDockerImage(imageName=, imagePullPolicy=DefaultPullPolicy())
at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.getDockerImageName(GenericContainer.java:1326)
at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.logger(GenericContainer.java:643)
at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.doStart(GenericContainer.java:326)
... 36 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: group id '34548085' is too big ( > 2097151 ). Use STAR or POSIX extensions to overcome this limit

I can confirm this issue still exist in 1.16.2 on MacOS

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: group id '5361194532 is too big ( > 2097151 ). Use STAR or POSIX extensions to overcome this limit
at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveOutputStream.failForBigNumber(TarArchiveOutputStream.java:651)
at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveOutputStream.failForBigNumberWithPosixMessage(TarArchiveOutputStream.java:644)
at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveOutputStream.failForBigNumbers(TarArchiveOutputStream.java:626)
at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveOutputStream.putArchiveEntry(TarArchiveOutputStream.java:377)
at org.testcontainers.shaded.com.github.dockerjava.core.util.CompressArchiveUtil.addFileToTar(CompressArchiveUtil.java:41)
at org.testcontainers.shaded.com.github.dockerjava.core.util.CompressArchiveUtil.archiveTARFiles(CompressArchiveUtil.java:106)
at org.testcontainers.shaded.com.github.dockerjava.core.dockerfile.Dockerfile$ScannedResult.buildDockerFolderTar(Dockerfile.java:134)
at org.testcontainers.shaded.com.github.dockerjava.core.dockerfile.Dockerfile$ScannedResult.buildDockerFolderTar(Dockerfile.java:124)
at org.testcontainers.shaded.com.github.dockerjava.core.command.BuildImageCmdImpl.withDockerfile(BuildImageCmdImpl.java:346)
at org.testcontainers.shaded.com.github.dockerjava.core.command.BuildImageCmdImpl.withDockerfile(BuildImageCmdImpl.java:23)
at org.testcontainers.images.builder.ImageFromDockerfile.lambda$configure$0(ImageFromDockerfile.java:154)
at java.util.Optional.ifPresent(Optional.java:159)
at org.testcontainers.images.builder.ImageFromDockerfile.configure(ImageFromDockerfile.java:153)
at org.microshed.testing.testcontainers.internal.ImageFromDockerfile.configure(ImageFromDockerfile.java:45)
at org.testcontainers.images.builder.ImageFromDockerfile.resolve(ImageFromDockerfile.java:109)
at org.testcontainers.images.builder.ImageFromDockerfile.resolve(ImageFromDockerfile.java:37)
at org.testcontainers.utility.LazyFuture.getResolvedValue(LazyFuture.java:17)
at org.testcontainers.utility.LazyFuture.get(LazyFuture.java:39)
at org.testcontainers.shaded.com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures$3.get(Futures.java:1332)
at org.testcontainers.images.RemoteDockerImage.getImageName(RemoteDockerImage.java:115)
at org.testcontainers.images.RemoteDockerImage.resolve(RemoteDockerImage.java:64)
at org.testcontainers.images.RemoteDockerImage.resolve(RemoteDockerImage.java:28)
at org.testcontainers.utility.LazyFuture.getResolvedValue(LazyFuture.java:17)
at org.testcontainers.utility.LazyFuture.get(LazyFuture.java:39)
at org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer.getDockerImageName(GenericContainer.java:1324)

From your stack trace, the issue is actually in docker-java and not testcontainers.

Specifically, the same changes from this PR will need to be applied to CompressArchiveUtil.java, and once released, testcontainers will need to be updated to the new version of docker-java

Yes indeed. I created a new issue on docker-java:
docker-java/docker-java#1747

Yes indeed. I created a new issue on docker-java: docker-java/docker-java#1747

Is there a workaround of any sort, do you know?