[GOBBLIN-905] Gobblin standalone crashes when adding a new job to its tracked folder

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: William Lo
• Created: 09/Oct/19 20:36
• Updated: 03/Aug/20 19:09
• Resolved: 07/Nov/19 23:19

Description

Gobblin standalone crashes with a null pointer exception when adding a new `.job` file to its tracked directory.

To reproduce, add a `.job` file in `GOBBLIN_JOB_CONF_DIR`

Produced output is below

2019-10-08 22:38:29 GMT ERROR [newDaemonThreadFactory] org.apache.gobblin.util.filesystem.ExceptionCatchingPathAlterationListenerDecorator 57 - onFileCreate failure:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.gobblin.util.SchedulerUtils.resolveTemplate(SchedulerUtils.java:182)
at org.apache.gobblin.util.SchedulerUtils.loadGenericJobConfig(SchedulerUtils.java:139)
at org.apache.gobblin.scheduler.PathAlterationListenerAdaptorForMonitor.loadNewJobConfigAndHandleNewJob(PathAlterationListenerAdaptorForMonitor.java:79)
at org.apache.gobblin.scheduler.PathAlterationListenerAdaptorForMonitor.onFileCreate(PathAlterationListenerAdaptorForMonitor.java:165)
at org.apache.gobblin.util.filesystem.ExceptionCatchingPathAlterationListenerDecorator.onFileCreate(ExceptionCatchingPathAlterationListenerDecorator.java:55)
at org.apache.gobblin.util.filesystem.PathAlterationObserver.doCreate(

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: GOBBLIN-935 reloading job config throws NPE
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2759