Re: Exception running findbugs ant task

OK, we'll get this resolved quickly and release FB 1.1.3.

Bill

On Dec 25, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Alex Chapman wrote:

> I'm a new findbugs user. I've installed findbugs-1.1.2 and
> successfully used the gui on my project to identify bugs. Now I'm
> trying to add it to my ant build, and I get an error.
>
> I've defined the task, and added a findbugs target
>
>         <target name="findbugs">
>                 <findbugs home="${findbugs.home}"
>                         output="xml"
>                         outputFile="${findbugs.dir}/findbugs-report.xml" >
>                 <sourcePath path="${build.src.dir}" />
>                 <class location="${build.classes.dir}" />
>                 </findbugs>
>         </target>
>
> but when I run this target I get the following
>
> Buildfile: build.xml
>
> findbugs:
> [findbugs] Running FindBugs...
> [findbugs] Error: The findbugs.home property is not set!
> [findbugs] Exception in thread "main"  
> java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
> [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.TextUICommandLine.<init>(TextUICommandLine.java: 
> 78)
> [findbugs]     at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.FindBugs2.main(FindBugs2.java: 
> 681)
> [findbugs] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
> [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.DetectorFactoryCollection.loadPlugins 
> (DetectorFactoryCollection.java:250)
> [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.DetectorFactoryCollection.ensureLoaded 
> (DetectorFactoryCollection.java:214)
> [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.DetectorFactoryCollection.instance 
> (DetectorFactoryCollection.java:99)
> [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.config.ProjectFilterSettings.<init> 
> (ProjectFilterSettings.java:93)
> [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.config.ProjectFilterSettings.createDefault 
> (ProjectFilterSettings.java:110)
> [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.config.UserPreferences.<init> 
> (UserPreferences.java:75)
> [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.config.UserPreferences.<clinit> 
> (UserPreferences.java:72)
> [findbugs]     ... 2 more
> [findbugs] Output saved to dist/reports/findbugs/findbugs-report.xml
>
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL
> Total time: 0 seconds
>
> The error says that findbugs.home is not set, but I'm sure it is. I've
> used echoproperties to confirm, and if I change the value, then it
> correctly reports an error that it cannot find findbugs.jar. So is
> there something else that I'm forgetting to do? Is there anything else
> I can try to figure this out? I'm running on Windows XP with
> jdk1.5.0_10 and apache-ant-1.7.0.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Alex Chapman
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