[#GROOVY-1681] null.setProperty yields confusing error message

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null.setProperty yields confusing error message

Created: 29/Jan/07 06:52 AM Updated: 08/Feb/08 01:26 AM

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Affects Version/s:

1.0

Fix Version/s:

1.5.2

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Environment:

Groovy Version: 1.0 JVM: 1.5.0_10-b03

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C:\>groovy -e "null.setProperty('foo','bar')"
Caught: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: foo for class: org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.NullObject
at script_from_command_line.run(script_from_command_line:1)
at script_from_command_line.main(script_from_command_line)

At least I would expect a nice and familiar NPE

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Paul King - 06/Jan/08 01:58 AM

This was mostly fixed previously but just tweaked a bit more. Now says:

Caught: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot set property 'foo' on null object

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Paul King - 08/Feb/08 01:26 AM

close off release 1.5.4