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Olivier Lamy commented on MINDEXER-44: -------------------------------------- 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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)