[GRADLE-2718] NullPointerException in GUtil.addToCollection occurs when JavaExec args is NULL Created: 21/Mar/13  Updated: 10/Feb/17  Resolved: 10/Feb/17

Status: Resolved
Project: Gradle
Affects Version/s: 1.3, 1.4, 1.5-rc-3
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: Venkatesh Nannan Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Won't Fix Votes: 0


 Description   

We were trying to create a Gradle task to execute a Java class by taking in a System property.

task importDataRequest(type: JavaExec) {
main = 'com.somepath.ImportDataRequest'
classpath = sourceSets.test.runtimeClasspath
args 'data.xls'
args System.properties.'Product'
outputs.upToDateWhen

{ false }

doFirst {
if (!System.properties.'Product')

{ throw new GradleException("Please enter a product in following format '-DProduct=SOMETHING'") }

}
}

When we execute any task in the Gradle file, it throws up NullPointerException at GUtil.addToCollection(GUtil.java:138)

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.gradle.util.GUtil.addToCollection(GUtil.java:138)
at org.gradle.process.internal.JavaExecHandleBuilder.args(JavaExecHandleBuilder.java:179)
at org.gradle.api.tasks.JavaExec.args(JavaExec.java:262)
at build_44ksni8gkqcc3hjj640feu326k$_run_closure9.doCall(D:\project\AutoHubFull\AutoHub\EndToEndTests\build.gradle:134)
at org.gradle.api.internal.ClosureBackedAction.execute(ClosureBackedAction.java:58)
at org.gradle.util.ConfigureUtil.configure(ConfigureUtil.java:133)
at org.gradle.util.ConfigureUtil.configure(ConfigureUtil.java:113)
at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask.configure(AbstractTask.java:425)
at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.task(AbstractProject.java:921)
at org.gradle.api.internal.BeanDynamicObject$MetaClassAdapter.invokeMethod(BeanDynamicObject.java:216)
at org.gradle.api.internal.BeanDynamicObject.invokeMethod(BeanDynamicObject.java:122)
at org.gradle.api.internal.CompositeDynamicObject.invokeMethod(CompositeDynamicObject.java:147)
at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.BasicScript.methodMissing(BasicScript.java:83)
at build_44ksni8gkqcc3hjj640feu326k.run(D:\project\AutoHubFull\AutoHub\EndToEndTests\build.gradle:129)
at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptRunnerFactory$ScriptRunnerImpl.run(DefaultScriptRunnerFactory.java:52)
... 30 more

We found a workaround for this issue. Instead of just passing the property to arguments, we passed an empty string if NULL.
args (System. properties . 'Product' ? System. properties . 'Product' : '' )

We were able to get around this bug by adding the above line. We think it should be handled in Gradle.

 Comments   
Comment by Benjamin Muschko [ 15/Nov/16 ]

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Comment by Benjamin Muschko [ 10/Feb/17 ]

Thanks again for reporting this issue. We haven't heard back from you after our inquiry from November 15th. We are closing this issue now. Please create an issue on GitHub if you still feel passionate about getting it resolved.

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