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Ed Randall commented on MCHECKSTYLE-287:
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Google shows that quite a few users have suffered this issue;  Is there any 
chance we could have a release with the quick tactical fix (catch 
NullPointerException in the offending Artifact loop) so we can run 'mvn site' 
on a multimodule project without having to figure out tedious workarounds?
You guys can then continue to research the root cause... it's been going on too 
long.  Thanks!

> checkstyle report throws NPE
> ----------------------------
>
>                 Key: MCHECKSTYLE-287
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCHECKSTYLE-287
>             Project: Maven Checkstyle Plugin
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.13, 2.14
>            Reporter: Thomas Scheffler
>         Attachments: patch1.diff, projects.tar.gz
>
>
> I don't know what triggers this bug. Somehow 
> org.apache.maven.plugin.checkstyle.AbstractCheckstyleReport.collectArtifacts(String)
>  produces a List which contains the null object. And therefor an exception is 
> thrown here (2.14):
> {noformat}
> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal 
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.3:site (default-site) on project 
> oaipmh: Execution default-site of goal 
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.3:site failed. 
> NullPointerException -> [Help 1]
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute 
> goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.3:site (default-site) on 
> project oaipmh: Execution default-site of goal 
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.3:site failed.
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:224)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:116)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:80)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:120)
>       at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:355)
>       at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:155)
>       at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:584)
>       at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:216)
>       at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:160)
>       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>       at 
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>       at 
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
>       at 
> org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
>       at 
> org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
>       at 
> org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
>       at 
> org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
> Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginExecutionException: Execution 
> default-site of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.3:site 
> failed.
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:143)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208)
>       ... 19 more
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.plugin.checkstyle.exec.DefaultCheckstyleExecutor.configureResourceLocator(DefaultCheckstyleExecutor.java:852)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.plugin.checkstyle.exec.DefaultCheckstyleExecutor.executeCheckstyle(DefaultCheckstyleExecutor.java:102)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.plugin.checkstyle.AbstractCheckstyleReport.executeReport(AbstractCheckstyleReport.java:474)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.plugin.checkstyle.CheckstyleReport.executeReport(CheckstyleReport.java:156)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.reporting.AbstractMavenReport.generate(AbstractMavenReport.java:255)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.plugins.site.ReportDocumentRenderer.renderDocument(ReportDocumentRenderer.java:219)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DefaultSiteRenderer.renderModule(DefaultSiteRenderer.java:319)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DefaultSiteRenderer.render(DefaultSiteRenderer.java:135)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.plugins.site.SiteMojo.renderLocale(SiteMojo.java:175)
>       at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.SiteMojo.execute(SiteMojo.java:138)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:132)
>       ... 20 more
> {noformat}
> Looking at the code, you see a null check is done for the list, bit not for 
> elements of that list:
> {noformat}
>         // MCHECKSTYLE-225: load licenses from additional artifacts, not from 
> classpath
>         if ( additionalArtifacts != null )
>         {
>             for ( Artifact licenseArtifact : additionalArtifacts )
>             {
>                 try
>                 {
>                     resourceManager.addSearchPath( "jar", "jar:" + 
> licenseArtifact.getFile().toURI().toURL() );
>                 }
>                 catch ( MalformedURLException e )
>                 {
>                     // noop
>                 }
>             }
>         }
> {noformat}



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