Re: Update usage?

[Brian W. <bwe...@xb...>]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Ian Kallen wrote:

> OK, thanks for the usage example with update, that helped. I have code
> now that runs and passes its tests. A peculiar thing seems evident
> from my experience with this, the dnsjava 2.0.0 classes appear to be
> sensitive to how the classes are loaded. I found this when the
> simplest thing worked in a command line class (in public static void
> main), worked from the command line invoked by a JUnit TestCase but
> failed with NullPointerExceptions when the same TestCase was run by
> the the maven (v1.0.2) build system I had. A typical stacktrace would
> look like this:
>
>    [junit] java.lang.NullPointerException
>    [junit]     at org.xbill.DNS.Record.getTypedObject(Record.java:64)
>    [junit]     at org.xbill.DNS.Record.getEmptyRecord(Record.java:87)
>    [junit]     at org.xbill.DNS.Record.fromString(Record.java:503)
>    [junit]     at org.xbill.DNS.Record.fromString(Record.java:527)
>    [junit]     at org.xbill.DNS.Update.add(Update.java:136)
>    [junit]     at org.xbill.DNS.Update.replace(Update.java:253)
>
> Anway, I worked around it by throwing together an ant build system for
> my project and everything worked. Weird.

There have definitely been some problems relating to class loading, and I 
think they should all be solved in 2.0.1 when it's released.

Brian