[Pcgen-trackers] [ pcgen-Bugs-1460087 ] Command Line parsing of pcg crashes

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Bugs item #1460087, was opened at 2006-03-29 02:31
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Category: Import/Save Character
Group: To be fixed For 5.10
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Martijn Verburg (karianna)
Assigned to: James Dempsey (jdempsey)
Summary: Command Line parsing of pcg crashes

Initial Comment:
I have finally identified the source of my problems
with Command Line
PCGen (for html files at least, any news about the
switches available,
in particular for pdf output ?).

If a .pcg file contains the following kind of tag:
"ABILITY:[PROMPT:"
For example in lines like:
========================================
CLASSABILITIESLEVEL:Fighter=4|HITPOINTS:6|ABILITY:[PROMPT:FEAT(TYPE=Fighter)|CHO\
\
ICE:Weapon
Specialization(Longbow)]|PRESTAT:DEX=1|SKILLSGAINED:2
========================================
CLASSABILITIESLEVEL:Wild
Mage=1|HITPOINTS:2|ABILITY:[PROMPT:SPELLCASTER(Arcane)|CHOICE:Sorcerer]|SKILLSGA\
\
INED:3
========================================
CLASSABILITIESLEVEL:Hexblade=5|HITPOINTS:5|ABILITY:[PROMPT:FEAT(Combat
Casting,Greater Spell Focus (Enchantment),Greater Spell
Focus
(Necromancy),Greater Spell Focus
(Transmutation),Greater Spell
Penetration,Spell Focus (Enchantment),Spell Focus
(Necromancy),Spell
Focus (Transmutation),Spell Penetration)|CHOICE:Spell
Focus(Enchantment)]|POSTSTAT:WIS=1|SKILLSGAINED:2
========================================

Then, the command file PCGen crashes with the rather
obscure following
output:
========================================
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	  at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	  at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	  at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown
Source)
	  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	  at pcgen.core.Main.main(Main.java:76)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	  at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	  at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
	  at
pcgen.util.chooser.ChooserFactory.getChooserInstance(ChooserFactory.java:52)
	  at
pcgen.core.LevelAbility.process(LevelAbility.java:121)
	  at
pcgen.io.PCGVer2Parser.parseLevelAbilityInfo(PCGVer2Parser.java:4454)
	  at
pcgen.io.PCGVer2Parser.parseClassAbilitiesLevelLine(PCGVer2Parser.java:1438)
	  at
pcgen.io.PCGVer2Parser.parseCachedLines(PCGVer2Parser.java:648)
	  at
pcgen.io.PCGVer2Parser.parsePCG(PCGVer2Parser.java:151)
	  at pcgen.io.PCGIOHandler.read(PCGIOHandler.java:294)
	  at pcgen.io.IOHandler.read(IOHandler.java:61)
	  at pcgen.core.party.Party.loadPCFromFile(Party.java:277)
	  at
pcgen.core.party.Party.loadCharacterFiles(Party.java:262)
	  at pcgen.core.party.Party.load(Party.java:141)
	  at pcgen.gui.pcGenGUI.runNonGuiLoad(pcGenGUI.java:297)
	  at pcgen.gui.pcGenGUI.runNonGui(pcGenGUI.java:240)
	  at pcgen.gui.pcGenGUI.<init>(pcGenGUI.java:171)
	  at pcgen.gui.pcGenGUI.main(pcGenGUI.java:404)
	  ... 5 more
========================================

I hope that this will be enough for you to track this
down to its
conclusion, as it is a rather annoying bug. MOst high
level characters
have at least one such tag...

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>Comment By: James Dempsey (jdempsey)
Date: 2006-05-06 12:12

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Rather than massive refactoring, I added in a stub chooser
for non gui use only. This will allow the export to proceed
correctly.

Files changed in 5.10.x branch:
http://svn.sourceforge.net/pcgen/?rev=954&view=rev

Files changed in trunk:
http://svn.sourceforge.net/pcgen/?rev=955&view=rev

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Comment By: James Dempsey (jdempsey)
Date: 2006-04-27 16:21

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Fixing this bug will require refactoring of the LevelAbility
classes to disassociate them from the Chooser and allow the
LevelAbility to be processed on load without instantiating a
chooser which uses GUI classes that are not present in
commandline only installs of Java.

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