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Marcin Domanski commented on MJAVADOC-342: ------------------------------------------ This is true p.i.t.a. Out of 3 projects on javadoc:fix (v2.8.1) * 1 failed with NPE on: ** {code}java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.maven.plugin.javadoc.AbstractFixJavadocMojo.writeParamTag(AbstractFixJavadocMojo.java:1994){code} * the other failed with (seems to be fixed in Qdox already): ** {code}java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 500 at com.thoughtworks.qdox.parser.impl.Parser.val_push(Parser.java:142) at com.thoughtworks.qdox.parser.impl.Parser.yyparse(Parser.java:1303) at com.thoughtworks.qdox.parser.impl.Parser.parse(Parser.java:999) at com.thoughtworks.qdox.JavaDocBuilder.addSource(JavaDocBuilder.java:353) at com.thoughtworks.qdox.JavaDocBuilder.addSource(JavaDocBuilder.java:381) at com.thoughtworks.qdox.JavaDocBuilder.addSource(JavaDocBuilder.java:377) at org.apache.maven.plugin.javadoc.AbstractFixJavadocMojo.getQdoxClasses(AbstractFixJavadocMojo.java:855){code} * last one was successful > An incomplete fix for the NPE bugs in AbstractJavadocMojo.java > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MJAVADOC-342 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJAVADOC-342 > Project: Maven 2.x Javadoc Plugin > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Guangtai Liang > Priority: Critical > > The fix revision 554202 was aimed to remove an NPE bug on the returned value > of "getJavadocDirectory()" in the method "getSourcePaths " of the file > "/maven/plugins/trunk/maven-javadoc-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/javadoc/AbstractJavadocMojo.java" > , but it is incomplete. > Since the returned value "getJavadocDirectory()" could be null during the > runtime execution, its value should also be null-checked before being > dereferenced in other methods. > The buggy code locations the same fix needs to be applied at are as bellows: > Line 2401 of the method "copyJavadocResources"; > Line 1505 of the method "getSourcePaths". -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira