Recent changes to 32: Failed to update default plugins -> java.lang.NullPointerException?

#32 Failed to update default plugins -> java.lang.NullPointerException?

2019-01-05T13:11:32.638000Z

Hm yeah so at the moment everything is set to /usr in many files, which - come to think of it - is also not very BSD friendly, as they need /usr/local. So this is definitely something that should be improved, but it'd need some major refactoring (e.g. time). I'll keep you posted...

#32 Failed to update default plugins -> java.lang.NullPointerException?

2018-12-29T20:15:38.987000Z

Thanks for giving me commit access, but I'm not sure that I dare pushing stuff directly just yet. :-)

For source build on Linux I think it'd be good to easily get the plugins as well as desktop file and manpage, and have configurable PREFIX/DESTDIR.

Hm, I didn't think of Nix' cross-platform abilities, as I only use it on Linux. I know there are macOS users and recently some cross-compilation work allows directly building Windows software. I'm not sure how that fits with jnetmap build infrastructure.

#32 Failed to update default plugins -> java.lang.NullPointerException?

2018-12-29T16:47:11.490000Z

Either that, or I've just added you to the project so you should be able to commit directly.

Hm ok, so what would you need from a direct source build, other than the default plugins? Sorry for not being more familiar with Nix, but since it's cross-plattform-ish I don't think all the ancillary stuff (such as .desktop-files) would be usefull for this case?

#32 Failed to update default plugins -> java.lang.NullPointerException?

2018-12-29T11:33:14.425000Z

How would you like to receive patches? File attachments to feature requests?

I prefer to build from source (nor did I see any stable references to build artifacts per svn rev, so building from source allow me to do CI/CD). It would probably not be that hard to change build.sh to fit my needs. (Maybe add optional param, use environment variable for PREFIX etc.)

#32 Failed to update default plugins -> java.lang.NullPointerException?

2018-12-28T20:10:57.684000Z

status: closed-fixed --> pending

#32 Failed to update default plugins -> java.lang.NullPointerException?

2018-12-28T18:44:20.666000Z

Thanks!

I didn't know about ./build/build.sh. I simply built with "mvn package", which you guessed right. Looking at build.sh now, I see it does lots of things I like (man page, desktop file++) but some things that are troublesome for packaging for Nix (https://nixos.org/nix/):

It hardcodes /usr prefix.
In addition to preparing generic stuff like manpage and desktop file, it builds rpm, deb and exe files (unneeded when building for Nix)
I must pass custom args to mvn. (Proper Nix packages are built in sandboxes, so to build jnetmap I'm currently doing a two step process where the first process is building a .m2 directory of all deps with fixed/known output hash, then the app is built against this .m2 snapshot directory in offline mode.)

Should I add an issue about making build.sh more generic? Or define what is the API for downstream package writers (maven pom.xml file or a wrapper like build.sh)?

#32 Failed to update default plugins -> java.lang.NullPointerException?

2018-12-28T16:10:48.543000Z

status: open --> closed-fixed
Group: Next Release --> 0.5

#32 Failed to update default plugins -> java.lang.NullPointerException?

2018-12-28T16:07:49.413000Z

Ticket moved from /p/jnetmap/feature-requests/41/

Failed to update default plugins -> java.lang.NullPointerException?

2018-12-28T15:00:52.358000Z

At latest svn, rev 682, I get this at startup (Linux):

15:54:19  WARN: Failed to update default plugins
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at ch.rakudave.jnetmap.util.IO.updateUserFiles(IO.java:185)
    at ch.rakudave.jnetmap.controller.Controller.<init>(Controller.java:73)
    at ch.rakudave.jnetmap.controller.Controller.main(Controller.java:62)

But the GUI shows up just fine.

Failed to update default plugins -> java.lang.NullPointerException?

2018-12-28T15:00:52.358000Z

Ticket 32 has been modified: Failed to update default plugins -> java.lang.NullPointerException?
Edited By: rakudave (rakudave)
Status updated: u'open' => u'closed-fixed'
_milestone updated: u'Next Release' => u'0.5'