Hello everyone,
Here's something that's been bugging me for a while:
In a plugin's <configuration> block (in this case JReleaser) there are
elements that are mapped to Map instances (no pun intended) such that for
example
<jreleaser>
<assemble>
<jpackage>
<app>
<!-- object properties -->
</app>
</jpackage>
<assemble>
</jreleaser>
In this case <jpackage> is of type Map<String, Jpackage>, thus <app> is the
entry's key. As long as the entry's value (an instance of Jpackage) is
properly configured then everything works. So far so good.
But, if the entry's values is misconfigured by defining an XML element that
does not exist then the Map will contain a key "app" associated with a
_null_ value!! And here lies the problem. I'd expected the misconfiguration
to trigger an error early during parsing but in reality what happens is
that the _null_ is added to the Map and the plugin fails much later in its
execution because of an NPE.
Is there anything that can be done to force this error to occur much
earlier?
TIA
Andres
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