Re: Exception running findbugs ant task

I hadn't figured that out, but you're right, it worked. What I had
done was just download 1.1.1 which didn't have this problem. Thanks,

Alex

On 12/26/06, Scott Wolk <swolk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You have probably already figured this out but you can work around this
> issue by setting the findbugs.home system property:
>
>         <findbugs sourcePathRef="source.dirs"
>                   auxClasspathRef="aux.classpath"
>                   auxAnalyzepathRef="analyze.classpath"
>                   onlyAnalyze="com.accelovation.-"
>                   effort="max"
>                   reportLevel="low"
>                   jvmargs="-Xmx512m"
>                   debug="false"
>                   home="${findbugs}"
>                   output="html"
>                   styleSheet="${findbugs}/src/xsl/fancy.xsl"
>                   outputFile="${global.reports.findbugs}/findbugs.html">
>             <systemproperty name="findbugs.home" value="${findbugs}" />
>         </findbugs>
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: findbugs-discuss-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:findbugs-discuss-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Chapman
> Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 5:44 PM
> To: findbugs-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [FB-Discuss] Exception running findbugs ant task
>
> 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(DetectorFactor
> yCollection.java:250)
>  [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.DetectorFactoryCollection.ensureLoaded(DetectorFacto
> ryCollection.java:214)
>  [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.DetectorFactoryCollection.instance(DetectorFactoryCo
> llection.java:99)
>  [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.config.ProjectFilterSettings.<init>(ProjectFilterSet
> tings.java:93)
>  [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.config.ProjectFilterSettings.createDefault(ProjectFi
> lterSettings.java:110)
>  [findbugs]     at
> edu.umd.cs.findbugs.config.UserPreferences.<init>(UserPreferences.java:7
> 5)
>  [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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