[jira] [Resolved] (CONFIGURATION-641) XMLConfiguration.load may throw NPE

["Oliver Heger (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-641?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Oliver Heger resolved CONFIGURATION-641.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 2.2

The documentation of the {{FileBased}} interface has been improved to clearly state that these methods should not be called directly by client code.

The exceptions caused by an invalid use of this mechanism now have better messages indicating the problem.

> XMLConfiguration.load may throw NPE
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CONFIGURATION-641
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-641
>             Project: Commons Configuration
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.1
>         Environment: Java 8 / Linux
>            Reporter: Claude Warren
>             Fix For: 2.2
>
>   Original Estimate: 1h
>  Remaining Estimate: 1h
>
> I expect that 
> {noformat}
>     URL url = Test.class.getResource( "/Test.xml");	
>     XMLConfiguration config = new XMLConfiguration();
>     config.read( url.openStream());
> {noformat}
> Would read the XML file.  However it will throw a NPE at line 967
> {noformat}
>  private void load(InputSource source) throws ConfigurationException
>     {
>         try
>         {
>             URL sourceURL = locator.getSourceURL(); // <- NPE here
>             if (sourceURL != null)
>             {
>                 source.setSystemId(sourceURL.toString());
>             }
> {noformat}
> I believe that testing for locator == null first will solve the problem as the rest of the code in the method does not appear to use it.



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