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Olivier Lamy commented on MINDEXER-44:
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This project has moved from Jira to GitHub Issues. This issue was migrated to 
[apache/maven-indexer#461|https://github.com/apache/maven-indexer/issues/461]. 

> NPE from DefaultSearchEngine.doSearchWithCeiling
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MINDEXER-44
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MINDEXER-44
>             Project: Maven Indexer (Moved to GitHub Issues)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 4.1.1
>            Reporter: Jesse N. Glick
>            Priority: Minor
>
> http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202138 reports 
> http://statistics.netbeans.org/exceptions/messageslog?id=533660 which shows
> {code}
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.index.DefaultSearchEngine.doSearchWithCeiling(DefaultSearchEngine.java:316)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.index.DefaultSearchEngine.searchFlat(DefaultSearchEngine.java:169)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.index.DefaultSearchEngine.searchFlatPaged(DefaultSearchEngine.java:102)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.index.DefaultSearchEngine.searchFlatPaged(DefaultSearchEngine.java:77)
> {code}
> This comes after some index download problems like
> {code}
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: Resource nexus-maven-repository-index.gz does 
> not exist
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.index.updater.WagonHelper$WagonFetcher.retrieve(WagonHelper.java:196)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.index.updater.WagonHelper$WagonFetcher.retrieve(WagonHelper.java:166)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.index.updater.DefaultIndexUpdater.loadIndexDirectory(DefaultIndexUpdater.java:191)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.index.updater.DefaultIndexUpdater.access$300(DefaultIndexUpdater.java:76)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.index.updater.DefaultIndexUpdater$LuceneIndexAdaptor.setIndexFile(DefaultIndexUpdater.java:642)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.index.updater.DefaultIndexUpdater.fetchAndUpdateIndex(DefaultIndexUpdater.java:861)
>       at 
> org.apache.maven.index.updater.DefaultIndexUpdater.fetchAndUpdateIndex(DefaultIndexUpdater.java:157)
> {code}
> It seems that the {{DefaultIndexingContext.indexSearcher}} is null, for 
> whatever reason, and {{searchFlatPaged}} is not verifying that it has been 
> passed a valid context and does not attempt to fix an invalid context, 
> perhaps using {{openAndWarmupReaders}}.
> Probably the caller is at fault for attempting a search on a context with no 
> valid index, but this ought to be reported more clearly than with an NPE 
> several calls down the stack, and there should be some documented method for 
> checking that a context is somehow complete and ready for use.



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