[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFLY-2009) IOException in aesh console initialization results in NPE

IOException in aesh console initialization results in NPE --------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-2009 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-2009 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Components: CLI Affects Versions: 8.0.0.Alpha4 Reporter: Jan Martiska Assignee: Jan Martiska Fix For: 8.0.0.Beta1 In source file org.jboss.as.cli.impl.Console, method Factory.getConsole: if the constructor call "new org.jboss.aesh.console.Console()" leads to an IOException, it is only logged and then ignored, always yielding a NullPointerException just a few lines later (console.addCompletion(new Completion() ...) I think the IOException should rather be rethrown wrapped in a CliInitializationException, so the resulting exception will not lose track of why this happened. Allowing a NPE go out of the internals is a wrong approach.