Constants causing NullPointerException when fetching metadata "Implementation Version" in MANIFEST --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: LUCENE-1666 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1666 Project: Lucene - Java Issue Type: Bug Components: Other Environment: os=Linux, os.version=2.6.28-11-generic, source=flush, lucene.version=2.9-dev, os.arch=i386, java.version=1.6.0_13, java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc. Reporter: Renaud Delbru Fix For: 2.9 If the MANIFEST.MF file does not contain the metadata IMPLEMENTATION_VERSION, a null value is returned, causing NullPointerException during commit: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.lucene.store.IndexOutput.writeString(IndexOutput.java:109) at org.apache.lucene.store.IndexOutput.writeStringStringMap(IndexOutput.java:229) at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfo.write(SegmentInfo.java:558) at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos.write(SegmentInfos.java:337) at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos.prepareCommit(SegmentInfos.java:808) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.startCommit(IndexWriter.java:5319) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.prepareCommit(IndexWriter.java:3895) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.commit(IndexWriter.java:3956) This happened after having build a jar assembly using Maven, the original MANIFEST.MF of lucene jar has been overwritten, and didn't contain anynore the implementation version metadata. Path attached. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org