Bug 258629

Summary:

NullPointerException at isAspect(ReferenceType.java:165)

Product:

[Tools] AspectJ

Reporter:

Jochen Wuttke <jochen.wuttke>

Component:

Compiler

Assignee:

aspectj inbox <aspectj-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

aclement

Version:

1.6.2

Target Milestone:

1.6.3

Hardware:

OS:

Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Aspect causing the exception	none

Description Jochen Wuttke

2008-12-12 04:54:35 EST

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.aspectj.weaver.ReferenceType.isAspect(ReferenceType.java:165)
at org.aspectj.ajdt.internal.core.builder.AjBuildManager$4.acceptResult(AjBuildManager.java:1032)
at org.aspectj.ajdt.internal.compiler.AjPipeliningCompilerAdapter.acceptResult(AjPipeliningCompilerAdapter.java:383)
at org.aspectj.ajdt.internal.compiler.AjPipeliningCompilerAdapter.afterProcessing(AjPipeliningCompilerAdapter.java:356)
at org.asp ... AutoBuildJob.run(AutoBuildJob.java:238)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

Compile error: NullPointerException thrown: null

Comment 1 Jochen Wuttke

2008-12-12 04:55:41 EST

Created attachment 120295 [details]
Aspect causing the exception

Comment 2 Jochen Wuttke

2008-12-12 04:59:37 EST

I get this exception every time I rebuild the project in Eclipse. It is unclear whether this is related to some error in the asepct (one of the methods being called does not exist in this example), or a true bug. 

Assuming it is due to a syntax error I would expect a much more helpful error message.

Comment 3 Andrew Clement

2008-12-12 11:18:17 EST

Are you on AspectJ 1.6.2 as it says in the bug report?

This looks like bug 251940 which is already fixed in AspectJ 1.6.3 dev builds, please update.

A NullPointerException is never a sign of intended behaviour, so yes you should be setting a better error if it is a syntax error.

Comment 4 Andrew Clement

2009-01-31 19:57:44 EST

I believe I fixed all code paths that could lead to this NPE during 1.6.3 development.  Please reopen if you see it again on a recent build.