[IVY-690] NullPointerException reported instead of error in ivy:cachepath

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-beta-2

Environment

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon; Java 1.6.0_03-b05; Ant 1.7.0; Ivy 2.0.0-beta1

• Assignee: Maarten Coene
• Reporter: Dr. Russel Winder
• Created: 04/Jan/08 10:43
• Updated: 04/Feb/08 22:33
• Resolved: 04/Feb/08 22:33

Description

Using the erroneous:

<ivy:cachepath organisation="apache" module="commons-lang" revision="2.3" pathid="lib.path.id" inline="true"/>

leads to the error message:

No ivy:settings found for the default reference 'ivy.instance'. A default instance will be used
no settings file found, using default...
[ivy:cachepath] :: Ivy 2.0.0-beta1 - 20071206070608 ::
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ ::
:: loading settings :: url = jar:file:/home/users/russel/lib/Java/groovy/lib/ivy-2.0.0-beta1.jar!/org/apache/ivy/core/settings/ivysettings.xml

BUILD FAILED
/home/Checkouts/SVK/Gant/local/gant/trunk/examples/ivy/build.xml:36:
impossible to resolve dependencies:
java.lang.NullPointerException

Correct the ivy:cachepath to:

<ivy:cachepath organisation="commons-lang" module="commons-lang" revision="2.3" pathid="lib.path.id" inline="true"/>

and everything works as expected. The error report here is that a message other than NullPointerException should be generated.