Bug#306371: NPE building lucene javadocs

Wed Apr 27 05:55:02 2005

On Apr 26, 2005, at 5:52 AM, Julian Scheid wrote:
> Firstly, gjdoc wasn't properly checking for URL.openStream() returning 
> null. This is fixed in cvs head now. If you try again with head, you 
> should get a warning message like "Cannot fetch package list from 
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/".

Way cool! This works like a charm - after rebuilding gjdoc from cvs 
head, I'm looking at beautiful gjdoc lucene api documentation! Thanks!

> Secondly, the current Classpath implementation of URL.openStream() is 
> buggy: for the URL above, which redirects to .../j2se/1.4.2/... using 
> a 302 (Moved Temporarily) HTTP response code, the redirection isn't 
> followed but instead a null stream is returned. And for non-existing 
> URLs it returns a stream instead of raising a FileNotFoundException.
>
> I've filed a corresponding bug report which already has been partly 
> acted upon:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=12815

Thanks for addressing this!

> As a temporary workaround until these bugs are fixed in the kaffe 
> debian package, you may want to change the URL in line 29 in lucene's 
> top-level build.xml to read "http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/" 
> - or, even better, "http://developer.classpath.org/doc/" :-)

Good suggestion : )

Seriously, thanks for your super fast response to this problem - & all 
your work on gjdoc - I like it a lot!

Jack