[GROOVY-1681] null.setProperty yields confusing error message

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.2
• Environment: Groovy Version: 1.0 JVM: 1.5.0_10-b03
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Antti Karanta
• Created: 29/Jan/07 06:52
• Updated: 08/Feb/08 01:26
• Resolved: 06/Jan/08 01:58

Description

C:\>groovy -e "null.setProperty('foo','bar')"
Caught: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: foo for class: org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.NullObject
at script_from_command_line.run(script_from_command_line:1)
at script_from_command_line.main(script_from_command_line)

At least I would expect a nice and familiar NPE