DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT PLEASE POST YOUR BUG· RELATED COMMENTS THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE AVAILABLE AT <http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32583>. ANY REPLY MADE TO THIS MESSAGE WILL NOT BE COLLECTED AND· INSERTED IN THE BUG DATABASE.
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32583 Summary: cvschangelog throes NullPointerException with some CVS server Product: Ant Version: 1.6.2 Platform: PC OS/Version: Windows 2000 Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Core tasks AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We encountered with the NullPointerException in using cvschangelog task. The full exception stack trace is below. In debugging we found that the problem in parsing dates. The pattern is "yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss" (see c_inputDate field in org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.cvslib.ChangeLogParser). The CVS server we used logs dates in another format. Here is cites from command cvs log -d ">=2004/11/08" : <....> revision 1.46 date: 2004-12-07 10:38:04 +0000; author: user1; state: Exp; lines: +23 -21 comment1 ---------------------------- revision 1.45 date: 2004-12-02 23:01:05 +0000; author: user2; state: Exp; lines: +5 -2 commment2 ---------------------------- <....> I think the cvschangelog task should try to parse date with several formats. Here is full exception stack trace: D:\project\cvschangelog_ant.xml:3: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:373) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1214) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1062) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:673) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:188) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:196) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:55) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Date.after(Date.java:871) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.cvslib.ChangeLogTask.filterEntrySet(Cha ngeLogTask.java:333) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.cvslib.ChangeLogTask.execute(ChangeLogT ask.java:262) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) ... 8 more --- Nested Exception --- java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Date.after(Date.java:871) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.cvslib.ChangeLogTask.filterEntrySet(Cha ngeLogTask.java:333) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.cvslib.ChangeLogTask.execute(ChangeLogT ask.java:262) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1214) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1062) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:673) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:188) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:196) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:55) -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]