Update! I just had a look in Jira and found out that this issue was fixed
in DSpace 5.7 and 6.0. The fix is very simple and works on our DSpace 5.5
branch. See the following issues:

https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3583
https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2633

Cheers,

On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 11:48 PM Alan Orth <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've created a SimpleArchiveFormat (SAF) bundle using the SAFBuilder tool.
> This is something I've done successfully dozens of times in the past, but
> for some reason I'm getting a NullPointerException now:
>
> $ dspace import --add [email protected]
> --mapfile=/tmp/import.map --source=/tmp/SimpleArchiveFormat
> No collections given. Assuming 'collections' file inside item directory
> Adding items from directory: /tmp/SimpleArchiveFormat
> Generating mapfile: /tmp/import.map
> Processing collections file: collections
> Adding item from directory item_1
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at
> org.dspace.app.itemimport.ItemImport.addItem(ItemImport.java:865)
>         at
> org.dspace.app.itemimport.ItemImport.addItems(ItemImport.java:736)
>         at org.dspace.app.itemimport.ItemImport.main(ItemImport.java:498)
>         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>         at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
>         at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
>         at
> org.dspace.app.launcher.ScriptLauncher.runOneCommand(ScriptLauncher.java:226)
>         at
> org.dspace.app.launcher.ScriptLauncher.main(ScriptLauncher.java:78)
>
> Collections are specified in each item directory's `collections` file, but
> the import only works if I specify a collection using --collection on the
> command line. The behavior is the same on my local macOS test machine as
> well as on our Linux staging server. Our DSpace version is 5.5.
>
> Thank you for any ideas or tips,
> --
>
> Alan Orth
> [email protected]
> https://picturingjordan.com
> https://englishbulgaria.net
> https://mjanja.ch
>
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Alan Orth
[email protected]
https://picturingjordan.com
https://englishbulgaria.net
https://mjanja.ch

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