Trying to fix the build

build.gradle

@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 import java.time.Duration
 
+/**
+ * In addition to releasing the library on Maven Central, we also release a SAS library along with some macros.
+ * Since the release is triggered on GitHub via the creation of a release, the SAS zip distribution has to be 
+ * manually created before and added to the release:
+ * 
+ *     gradlew clean createDistribution
+ */
+
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
     id 'checkstyle'
@@ -54,6 +62,12 @@ java {
     withSourcesJar()
 }
 
+// I have absolutely no idea why I need to do this; it appears the test task depends on the created JAR file; I know it depends 
+// on the source code, but I can't figure out why it depends on the created archive itself. I found this workaround online...
+tasks.named("test") {
+    dependsOn(tasks.named("jar"))
+}
+
 // customize the manifest
 jar {
     manifest {
@@ -81,6 +95,8 @@ sonarqube {
         property "sonar.host.url", "https://sonarcloud.io"
         property 'sonar.exclusions', '**/lab/*'
         property 'sonar.coverage.exclusions', '**/lab/*'
+        property 'sonar.exclusions', '**/sas/*'
+        property 'sonar.coverage.exclusions', '**/sas/*'
     }
 }
 

src/main/java/com/imsweb/naaccrxml/sas/SasGzipOutputStream.java

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ public class SasGzipOutputStream extends DeflaterOutputStream {
     /**
      * CRC-32 of uncompressed data.
      */
-    protected CRC32 crc = new CRC32();
+    protected CRC32 _crc = new CRC32();
 
     /**
      * GZIP header magic number.
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public class SasGzipOutputStream extends DeflaterOutputStream {
     public SasGzipOutputStream(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
         super(out, new Deflater(Deflater.BEST_SPEED, true), 65536, false);
         writeHeader();
-        crc.reset();
+        _crc.reset();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ public SasGzipOutputStream(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
     @Override
     public synchronized void write(byte[] buf, int off, int len) throws IOException {
         super.write(buf, off, len);
-        crc.update(buf, off, len);
+        _crc.update(buf, off, len);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ private void writeHeader() throws IOException {
      * offset.
      */
     private void writeTrailer(byte[] buf, int offset) {
-        writeInt((int)crc.getValue(), buf, offset); // CRC-32 of uncompr. data
+        writeInt((int)_crc.getValue(), buf, offset); // CRC-32 of uncompr. data
         writeInt(def.getTotalIn(), buf, offset + 4); // Number of uncompr. bytes
     }