Maven 2 & 3

Malformed respositories element could use a better error message

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • Affects Version/s: 2.0.9
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: POM
  • Labels:
    None
  • Complexity:
    Intermediate
  • Number of attachments :
    1

Description

If you create a pom that has a repository element like this:
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>just.an.id</id>
</repository>
</repositories>

The error message isn't at all helpful:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] null
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.maven.wagon.PathUtils.protocol(PathUtils.java:206)
at org.apache.maven.wagon.repository.Repository.setUrl(Repository.java:121)
at org.apache.maven.wagon.repository.Repository.<init>(Repository.java:74)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.DefaultArtifactRepository.<init>(DefaultArtifactRepository.java:87)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.DefaultArtifactRepositoryFactory.createArtifactRepository(DefaultArtifactRepositoryFactory.java:85)
at org.apache.maven.project.ProjectUtils.buildArtifactRepository(ProjectUtils.java:105)
at org.apache.maven.project.ProjectUtils.buildArtifactRepositories(ProjectUtils.java:56)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildArtifactRepositories(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:944)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1144)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:821)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:506)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:198)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:583)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:461)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:365)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:292)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287)
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)

Would be nice to have this be a more obvious message.

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Johannes Schneider added a comment -

The problem is the missing "<url>" tag...
Better error message will be great.

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Johannes Schneider added a comment - The problem is the missing "<url>" tag... Better error message will be great.
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Brett Porter added a comment -

Johannes, as you can see form linked issue, this is already in Maven 2.0.10+

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Brett Porter added a comment - Johannes, as you can see form linked issue, this is already in Maven 2.0.10+

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