RE: [birt-report-engine-dev] NullPointerException atExecutorManager.java

["Wei Yan" <wyan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems that you have created you own extended item "reportItem" but
failed to implement the IReportItemGeneration. Can you check your report
design to see if there exits an extended item "reportItem"? 

BIRT should do NPE checking after loading the extended item executor. It
will be fixed in 2.3.

Thanks.


-Wei Yan


-----Original Message-----
From: birt-report-engine-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:birt-report-engine-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grant
Gavares
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 3:29 AM
To: birt-report-engine-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [birt-report-engine-dev] NullPointerException
atExecutorManager.java 274


Any report that I execute results in a NullPointer exception at
ExecutorManager.java: 274.

Report Engine: 2.2.1
Container: Jetty

My Engine is initialized as follows:

    EngineConfig config = new EngineConfig();
    config.setEngineHome( "" );
    config.setLogConfig(null, Level.ALL );
    IPlatformContext servletContext = new PlatformServletContext(
context );
    config.setPlatformContext(servletContext);
    config.setResourcePath( BIRT_VIEWER_SCRIPTLIB_DIR );
    config.setProperty( "BIRT_VIEWER_SCRIPTLIB_DIR",
BIRT_VIEWER_SCRIPTLIB_DIR );
    Platform.startup(config);
    IReportEngineFactory factory = (IReportEngineFactory)
Platform.createFactoryObject(
IReportEngineFactory.EXTENSION_REPORT_ENGINE_FACTORY );
    engine = factory.createReportEngine(config);

The last line executed by my code is:

    runTask.run( docFileName );

I can see that the run task is creating an output file and data is being
written to it. The stacktrace from the BIRT Engine:


org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.impl.DataEngineImpl <init>
Data Engine starts up
org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.extension.internal.ExtensionManager
createReportItemExecutor
WARNING: Create Report Item Executor fail, Config not exist class:
reportItem
org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.RunTask doRun
SEVERE: An error happened while running the report. Cause:
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.executor.ExecutorManager$ExecutorFactory.
visitExtendedItem(ExecutorManager.java:274)
        at
org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.ir.ExtendedItemDesign.accept(ExtendedItem
Design.java:45)
        at
org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.executor.ExecutorManager$ExecutorFactory.
createExecutor(ExecutorManager.java:246)



Looking at ExecutorManager:274

   273: IReportItemExecutor executor = ExtensionManager.getInstance(
).createReportItemExecutor( ExecutorManager.this, tagName );
   274: executor.setContext( executorContext );

It appears that the null pointer exception is caused by callint
setContext on a null IReportItemExecutor object.

Looking into ExtensionManager.createReportItemExecutor:

    140:    IConfigurationElement config = (IConfigurationElement)
generationExtensions.get( itemType );
    142:    if ( config != null )
    143         {
    144             Object object = createObject( config, "class" );
//$NON-NLS-1$
    145             if ( object instanceof IReportItemExecutor )
    146             {
    147                 return (IReportItemExecutor) object;
    148             }
    149             else if ( object instanceof IReportItemGeneration )
    150             {
    151                 return new ExtendedGenerateExecutor( manager,
    152                         (IReportItemGeneration) object );
    153             }
    154             logger
    155                     .log(
    156                             Level.WARNING,
    157                             "Create Report Item Executor fail,
Config not exist class: {0}", config.getName( ) ); //$NON-NLS-1$
    158             return null;
    159         }


The last log line above is where I was getting the error I pasted in my
previous post. That means that this method is returning null.(  Perhaps
it would be good practice for ExecutorManager to check for null after
its call to ExtensionManager in order to avoid the NullPointerException?
) So why am I getting null from ExtensionManager? Looking into the
variable *generationExtensions*, its a HashMap thats populated in the
method ExtensionManager.loadGenerationExtensionDefns. Here is the body
of this method:
    337     protected void loadGenerationExtensionDefns()
    338     {
    339         IExtensionRegistry registry =
Platform.getExtensionRegistry();
    340         IExtensionPoint extPoint =
registry.getExtensionPoint(EXTENSION_POINT_GENERATION);
    341         if(extPoint==null)
    342             return;
    343
    344         IExtension[] exts = extPoint.getExtensions();
    345         logger.log(Level.FINE, "Start load extension point:
{0}", EXTENSION_POINT_GENERATION); //$NON-NLS-1$
    346         for (int i = 0; i < exts.length; i++)
    347         {
    348             IConfigurationElement[] configs =
exts[i].getConfigurationElements();
    349             for (int j = 0; j < configs.length; j++)
    350             {
    351                 String itemName =
configs[j].getAttribute("name"); //$NON-NLS-1$
    352                 generationExtensions.put(itemName, configs[j]);
    353                 logger.log(Level.FINE, "Load generation
extension: {0}", itemName); //$NON-NLS-1$
    354             }
    355         }
    356     }


So it looks like something is missing ( from the error above, I'd say
"reportItem" ) from the exts array.  

Any ideas? 


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