Hi, Thanks for this pointer. Very helpful.
I was using the HSTS plugin as a template ( https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/HSTS+Filter+Plugin ), but I since that one is extending PageDecorator rather than Plugin, I suppose it is supposed to integrate with Jenkins differently. A On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 3:17:43 PM UTC+1, Stephen Connolly wrote: > > You don't call load() or save() from the constructor. For one thing, doing > that kind of thing from a constructor is a bad plan anyways, but also, as > you found, the plugin wrapper has not been instantiated until after the > Plugin instance is fully constructed. > > The correct place to call those methods is in your overridden start() > method > > > On 23 April 2013 14:50, Alexis Gallagher <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am building a plugin which extends from hudson.Plugin, an abstract >> class which provides an implementation of save() and load(). >> >> However, on startup, the plugin generates NullPointerException's whenever >> load() is called. On investigation, it turns out this is because my >> plugin's PluginWrapper is never initialized. >> >> Is this some sort of a bug in hudson.Plugin? (The only reason I think >> this is possible, is that I can't find another plugin that extends from >> hudson.Plugin and uses load()/save().) I cannot find anything in the >> javadoc which indicates that I should be manually wrapping my plugin in a >> PluginWrapper, or telling me when I should do that, and other plugins do >> not seem to handle this on their own. >> >> Or is this it the case that extending hudson.Plugin is the wrong way to >> build a plugin? In its javadoc ( >> http://javadoc.jenkins-ci.org/hudson/Plugin.html ), the class says "A >> plugin needs to derive from this class", which is where I got the idea to >> do this. But perhaps this is out of date? >> >> Alexis >> >> >> p.s. the plugin is here: https://github.com/algal/cors >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
