[MNG-2904] Misleading error message if profiles that are active by default do not have an ID

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.5
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.7
• Component/s: Errors
• Environment: Maven 2.0.x on Mac OSX Java 1.5.0_07 - happens on Java 1.4.2 also
• Assignee: Jason van Zyl
• Reporter: Andrew Williams
• Created: 27/Mar/07 07:47
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 12:25
• Resolved: 02/Jun/07 21:03

Description

to reproduce edit your ~/.m2/settings.xml and add a new profile.
Mark it as active by default and make sure it has no ID.
The resulting stack is thus:

java.lang.ClassCastException: Settings.addActiveProfiles(string) parameter must be instanceof java.lang.String
at org.apache.maven.settings.Settings.addActiveProfile(Settings.java:91)
at org.apache.maven.settings.DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.activateDefaultProfiles(DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.java:197)
at org.apache.maven.settings.DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.buildSettings(DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.java:177)
at org.apache.maven.settings.DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.buildSettings(DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.java:153)
at org.apache.maven.settings.DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.buildSettings(DefaultMavenSettingsBuilder.java:141)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.buildSettings(MavenCli.java:315)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:176)
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)