NPE on java tests trying to open a test resource using getClass().getResource()

[cvgaviao]

I started to play with circleci today.

I’ve set one project that is running well on my machine, but at the circleci env it fails with a NPE caused by a java statement trying to get a test resource inside the building jar that will be used to compare.

    a.analyzeResource(new JarResource(new File(getClass()
            .getResource("/testdata/07-optionalimport.jar").getPath())),
            caps, reqs);

the test

the job

Am I missing something ?

[halfer]

Which of your methods resolves unexpectedly to null? At a minimum, you should trap that and output a sensible error, rather than letting it get to an NPE.

[cvgaviao]

my bet is that the NPE is occurring after this method return null:

getClass()
            .getResource("/testdata/07-optionalimport.jar")

But I have opened this report because to me doesn’t make sense this happen only at this environment…

[halfer]

If you don’t know whether getClass() or getResource() is returning null, I’d say the first step is to find out . The defensive programming I suggested earlier would be ideal.

[cvgaviao]

Well, embarrassingly, after many many hours, I found where the issue was…

The culprit was a copied .gitignore file that contained this:

# Package Files #
 target
 *.jar
 *.txt

Eclipse IDE adds a small interrogation icon on the uncommited files, a small repo icon to the committed ones and just remove the icon from the ignored ones. I just didn’t pay attention to those ignored ones.

So, I changed that file to:

# Package Files #
target/*.jar
target/*.txt 

and the mysterious unit tests errors have gone.

thank all for the time…