UrlSet excludePaths() method throws a nullpointer exception if the pathString argument is null

• Key: XBEAN-92
• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Blocker
• Assignee: Shawn Jiang
• Reporter: karan singh malhi
• Component/s: finder
• Fix Version/s: 3.6

Description

With IBM JDK 5, when we try to get the system property java.endorsed.dirs, it returns null. This is a critical issue as it prevents OpenEjb from starting

In UrlSet, the following method will lead to a NullPointerException:

public UrlSet excludeJavaEndorsedDirs() throws MalformedURLException { return excludePaths(System.getProperty("java.endorsed.dirs")); }
This is because the excludePaths() method assumes that the pathString argument is always non-null.
public UrlSet excludePaths(String pathString) throws MalformedURLException {
String[] paths = pathString.split(File.pathSeparator);
UrlSet urlSet = this;
for (String path : paths) { File file = new File(path); urlSet = urlSet.exclude(file); }
return urlSet;
}