Improve error reporting in case of unlocatable component descriptor -------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: MASSEMBLY-290 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-290 Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: 2.2-beta-2 Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann Priority: Trivial Attachments: missing-component-descriptor.patch That's not really user-friendly: {noformat} [INFO] [assembly:attached {execution: make-assemblies}] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] null [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.io.DefaultAssemblyReader.mergeComponentsWithMainAssembly(DefaultAssemblyReader.java:454) at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.io.DefaultAssemblyReader.readAssembly(DefaultAssemblyReader.java:366) at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.io.DefaultAssemblyReader.addAssemblyFromDescriptor(DefaultAssemblyReader.java:332) at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.io.DefaultAssemblyReader.readAssemblies(DefaultAssemblyReader.java:193) at org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.mojos.AbstractAssemblyMojo.execute(AbstractAssemblyMojo.java:296) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:447) {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira