[news.eclipse.technology.buckminster] Re: Product Build Failure with Fea

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,
This is definitely a bug. I added bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=215793

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren


Michael Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a product that consists of multiple features that consist of 
> plugins.
> At first the feature and plugins had unique IDs. Materialization and 
> building
> the product with buckminster worked flawlessly in the IDE and headless.
>
> After removing the suffix ".feature" from the feature IDs, there exist now
> features with the same ID as one of the plugins they include.
> For materialization to work, I added an alternative provider to
> the search path in the RMAP and of course changed all references to the 
> old feature IDs.
>
> I checked that the product builds using the Eclipse wizard works. 
> However using buckminster to create the product throws a 
> NullPointerException.
>
> C:\eclipse\buckminster\configuration\org.eclipse.osgi\bundles\48\1\.cp\org\eclipse\buckminster\pde\antscripts\build.xml:237: 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>
> The complete stack trace follows below.
>
> The NullPointException occurs at this position at 
> org.eclipse.buckminster.pde.internal.model.ExternalEditableFeatureModel.load(ExternalEditableFeatureModel.java:96) 
>
> where the input is 
> C:\PATH_TO\workspace\plugins\THE_PLUGIN_ID\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF
>
>
> Regards,
> Michael