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Brett Porter commented on MNG-3857: ----------------------------------- Johannes, as you can see form linked issue, this is already in Maven 2.0.10+ > Malformed respositories element could use a better error message > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-3857 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3857 > Project: Maven 2 > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: POM > Affects Versions: 2.0.9 > Reporter: Justin Edelson > Assignee: Brett Porter > Priority: Minor > Attachments: pom.xml > > > If you create a pom that has a repository element like this: > <repositories> > <repository> > <id>just.an.id</id> > </repository> > </repositories> > The error message isn't at all helpful: > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [ERROR] FATAL ERROR > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] null > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Trace > java.lang.NullPointerException > at org.apache.maven.wagon.PathUtils.protocol(PathUtils.java:206) > at > org.apache.maven.wagon.repository.Repository.setUrl(Repository.java:121) > at > org.apache.maven.wagon.repository.Repository.<init>(Repository.java:74) > at > org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.DefaultArtifactRepository.<init>(DefaultArtifactRepository.java:87) > at > org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.DefaultArtifactRepositoryFactory.createArtifactRepository(DefaultArtifactRepositoryFactory.java:85) > at > org.apache.maven.project.ProjectUtils.buildArtifactRepository(ProjectUtils.java:105) > at > org.apache.maven.project.ProjectUtils.buildArtifactRepositories(ProjectUtils.java:56) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildArtifactRepositories(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:944) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1144) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:821) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:506) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:198) > at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:583) > at > org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:461) > at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:365) > at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:292) > at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129) > at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) > at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) > at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) > at > org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) > at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) > Would be nice to have this be a more obvious message. -- 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