Bug 55949 - NPE in javadoc when using a custom doclet
Summary: NPE in javadoc when using a custom doclet
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ant
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core tasks (show other bugs)
Version: 1.9.3
Hardware: All All
: P2 regression (vote)
Target Milestone: 1.9.4
Assignee: Ant Notifications List
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Reported: 2014-01-03 06:42 UTC by Stefan Bodewig
Modified: 2014-02-11 17:43 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan Bodewig 2014-01-03 06:42:36 UTC
This is from the dev-list: http://marc.info/?t=138869346100002&r=1&w=2

When using a doclet, destdir is optional and with Ant 1.9.3 an exception occurs.

A possible workaround is setting postProcessGeneratedJavadocs to false.

The error generated by Ant 1.9.3:

BUILD FAILED
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javadoc.postProcessGeneratedJavadocs(Javadoc.java:2450)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javadoc.execute(Javadoc.java:1790)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:292)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:435)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:456)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1393)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1364)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1248)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:851)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:235)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)
Comment 1 Stefan Bodewig 2014-01-03 06:45:53 UTC
fixed with svn revision 1555019