Bug#581487: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to locate resource: XmlRpcClient.properties

[Torsten Werner]

Hi,

thank you for your bug report! I am sorry for my late reply. May you
come up with some patch to fix the issue? Or something similar, maybe
more detailed instructions? Any example property file?

Thanks!
Torsten

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:20 AM, R B <rjbbugs2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: libxmlrpc3-client-java
> Version: 3.1.3-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: squeeze upstream
>
>
> The version of libxmlrpc3-client-java which went into testing in April
> contains a change to allow the library version to be included in the
> client's user agent string, instead of hard-coding a more generic user agent
> string in the XmlRpcHttpTransport.java file.
>
> This change was implemented by adding an XmlRpcClient.properties file to the
> org/apache/xmlrpc/client directory which contains a property named
> user.agent
> whose value is the user agent string to use. The XmlRpcHttpTransport class
> was
> modified to look for this property file in that location and use the
> user.agent property contained therein as its USER_AGENT string.
>
> Presumably, the tool used to create the xmlrpc-client.jar file is supposed
> to
> first create or update the XmlRpcClient.properties file with the current
> version that is being built and include it in the jar, but the
> XmlRpcClient.properties file is missing in this release (and possibly from
> the
> upstream release, too), which results in a not-too-informative exception
> message.
> It is not possible to get a working client until an
> WEB-INF/classes/org/apache/xmlrpc/client/XmlRpcClient.properties file
> containing a user.agent property is added to the jar.
>
> It may not be a bad idea to add a fallback mechanism in the
> XmlRpcHttpTransport class in the event the XmlRpcClient.properties file is
> inadvertently forgotten in the future which will use a default hard coded
> user
> agent string if the attempt to load from the properties file fails for any
> reason, and maybe log some kind of warning.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>  APT prefers proposed-updates
>  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages libxmlrpc3-client-java depends on:
> ii  libcommons-httpclient-java    3.1-9      A Java(TM) library for creating
> HT
> ii  libxmlrpc3-common-java        3.1.3-2    XML-RPC implementation in Java
>
> libxmlrpc3-client-java recommends no packages.
>
> libxmlrpc3-client-java suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
>
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