[MNG-2123] NullPointerException when a dependency uses version range and another uses an actual version incompatible with that range

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.9
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Brian E Fox
• Reporter: Carlos Sanchez Gonzalez
• Due: 07/Aug/06
• Created: 06/Mar/06 01:36
• Updated: 10/Mar/16 13:51
• Resolved: 05/Mar/08 19:07

Description

Struts 1.2.7 depends on commons-digester 1.6 and jasperreports 1.1.1 in [1.7,)

Build fails with a null pointer exception that is not very explanatory

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Unnamed - test:test:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] task-segment: [test]
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [resources:resources]
[INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] version was null for commons-digester:commons-digester
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
java.lang.NullPointerException: version was null for commons-digester:commons-digester
at org.apache.maven.artifact.DefaultArtifact.getBaseVersion(DefaultArtifact.java:361)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.DefaultArtifact.getId(DefaultArtifact.java:222)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.ResolutionNode.getDependencyTrail(ResolutionNode.java:115)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactCollector.collect(DefaultArtifactCollector.java:88)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveTransitively(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:223)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveTransitively(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:211)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveTransitively(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:182)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.resolveTransitiveDependencies(DefaultPluginManager.java:1117)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:366)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:534)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:475)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:454)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:306)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:273)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:140)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:322)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:115)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:256)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Sun Mar 05 23:26:16 PST 2006
[INFO] Final Memory: 3M/5M
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Issue Links

• is duplicated by: MNG-3086 NullPointerException in ResolutionNode.getTrail(ResolutionNode.java:136)
• is related to: MASSEMBLY-483 NullPointerException when a dependency uses version range and another uses an actual version incompatible with that range
• relates to: MNG-2861 NullPointerException in DefaultArtifactCollector for relocated resolvedArtifacts with different version ranges and available versions.
• relates to: MNG-3396 Managed versions dont affect over constrained ranges