Bug 142725

Created attachment 66423 [details]
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Build: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 080804)
VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, 11.0-b12, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.6.0_10-beta-b25
OS: Windows Vista, 6.0, x86

User Comments: 
Opening Free-form web projects

Stacktrace: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil.normalizeFileOnWindows(FileUtil.java:1446)
        at org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil.normalizeFile(FileUtil.java:1344)
        at org.netbeans.spi.project.support.ant.PropertyUtils.resolveFile(PropertyUtils.java:509)
        at org.netbeans.spi.project.support.ant.AntProjectHelper.resolveFile(AntProjectHelper.java:1195)
        at org.netbeans.modules.java.freeform.Classpaths.createClasspathEntry(Classpaths.java:448)
        at org.netbeans.modules.java.freeform.Classpaths.createClasspath(Classpaths.java:442)

Created attachment 66436 [details]
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Build: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 080804)
VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, 11.0-b12, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.6.0_10-beta-b25
OS: Windows Vista, 6.0, x86

User Comments: 
Can't open free-form web project... This is a little irritating

Stacktrace: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil.normalizeFileOnWindows(FileUtil.java:1446)
        at org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil.normalizeFile(FileUtil.java:1344)
        at org.netbeans.spi.project.support.ant.PropertyUtils.resolveFile(PropertyUtils.java:509)
        at org.netbeans.spi.project.support.ant.AntProjectHelper.resolveFile(AntProjectHelper.java:1195)
        at org.netbeans.modules.java.freeform.Classpaths.createClasspathEntry(Classpaths.java:448)
        at org.netbeans.modules.java.freeform.Classpaths.createClasspath(Classpaths.java:442)

Created attachment 66491 [details]
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Java part of freeform.

Probably the problem is in filesystems, reassigning, please evaluate.

Could you attach your messages.log from your userdir? There should be some warnings.

*** Issue 142866 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

I fixed NPE but I am still interested to see your messages.log to investigate root cause of the failure.

http://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/216ee31e665f

Integrated into 'main-golden', available in build *200808060201* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/216ee31e665f
User: Jiri Skrivanek <jskrivanek@netbeans.org>
Log: #142725 - prevent NPE when getCanonicalFile fails.

Created attachment 67385 [details]
The messages.log complaints with errors on xstream-1.3.jar which is actually present on the given path and hence there should be no error

This issue may very well be related to Issue 51616, but I'll let the person assigned the bug to decide

It is not related to issue 51616 - that one is about getCanonicalFile() failing because the argument is not a single
file but multiple jar files separated by ";" which is not the case of this issue.

Two strange things: this issue was fixed in 200808060201 and you are using 200808111757 but exception stack trace looks
like you actually still do not have the fix in your build: compare exceptions - the lines numbers are the same.

Could you please attach zipped nbproject folder of your project causing this problem? Looking at your IDE log:

getCanonicalFile() on file D:\OpenMRS\openmrs\lib\xstream\xstream-1.3.jar
                 failed: java.io.IOException: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect

it looks like there is new line character and several " " characters at the of xstream-1.3.jar which could cause
getCanonical to fail. Otherwise the text should be one line.

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The issue still persists with latest build (Build 200808111757).. Can't open the freeform project. Haven't found any 
workaround either and there are lots of duplicate issues

It is fixed in daily builds. Please, download and install it from here:

http://bits.netbeans.org/download/trunk/nightly/latest/

*** Issue 147796 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

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