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September 7, 2009
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Fails in a large codebase - java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1

  • September 7, 2009
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Hi, I'm trying to use Flex PMD in a large Flex codebase. It seems to work fine with smaller projects but I have one pretty large project and both if I run it from ant or command line it fails with a pretty generic error. I thought I would check if anyone has run into this error before. This is the output from the console window (I ran the ant task from within Flex Builder).

flexPmdWithDefaultRuleset:
  [flexPmd] Sep 7, 2009 10:55:55 AM com.adobe.ac.pmd.engines.AbstractFlexPmdEngine loadRuleset
  [flexPmd] INFO: Ruleset: C:\Users\Andy\AppData\Local\Temp\all_flex62150.xml
  [flexPmd] Sep 7, 2009 10:55:55 AM com.adobe.ac.pmd.engines.AbstractFlexPmdEngine loadRuleset
  [flexPmd] INFO: Rules number in the ruleSet: 84
  [flexPmd] Sep 7, 2009 10:55:55 AM com.adobe.ac.pmd.FlexPmdViolations computeViolations
  [flexPmd] INFO: computing RulesList
  [flexPmd] Sep 7, 2009 10:55:55 AM com.adobe.ac.pmd.FlexPmdViolations computeViolations
  [flexPmd] INFO: computing FilesList
  [flexPmd] Sep 7, 2009 10:56:23 AM com.adobe.ac.pmd.FlexPmdViolations computeViolations
  [flexPmd] INFO: computing Asts

BUILD FAILED
C:\Projects\src\MyAppClient\build.xml:345: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1

Has anyone seen anything like it?

I figured the error is so generic that I have to try to figure it out myself. Any ideas how to debug the issue? Just set a breakpoint in com.adobe.ac.pmd.FlexPmdViolations?

TIA,

Magnus

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Xavier Agnetti
Adobe Employee
September 8, 2009

Hi,

I resolved some bugs related to this in trunk.

Those fixes will be in RC4.

Can you try to download the source?

Xavier

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TexMagsAuthor
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September 8, 2009

Great, I'll download the source and try it as soon as I get a chance and get back to you.

Thanks,

Magnus

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TexMagsAuthor
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September 24, 2009

I've tried with the latest RC 4 but unfortunately it still fails with the error:

Buildfile: C:\Projects\src\MyProject\build.xml
flexPmdWithDefaultRuleset:
  [flexPmd] Sep 24, 2009 8:30:15 AM com.adobe.ac.pmd.engines.AbstractFlexPmdEngine loadRuleset
  [flexPmd] INFO: Ruleset: C:\DOCUME~1\JohnDoe\LOCALS~1\Temp\all_flex6008.xml
  [flexPmd] Sep 24, 2009 8:30:15 AM com.adobe.ac.pmd.engines.AbstractFlexPmdEngine loadRuleset
  [flexPmd] INFO: Rules number in the ruleSet: 84

BUILD FAILED
C:\Projects\src\MyProject\build.xml:430: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1

It seems like it fails earlier on in the process with RC4 than RC3 as you can see in the output. I haven't looked at the source in detail of Flex PMD, if it's possible to improve the error handling and get a more descriptive error of where in Flex PMD it fails, maybe we could figure out exactly why it fails.

I haven't been able to run all of the Flex PMD projects from the source but I will give it another shot with this release later this week and see if I can get any further.

TIA,

Magnus

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