NPE on RuleBase when Guvnor is down ----------------------------------- Key: JBRULES-2069 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBRULES-2069 Project: JBoss Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public (Everyone can see) Components: drools-core Affects Versions: 5.0.0.CR1 Reporter: George Gastaldi Assignee: Mark Proctor Priority: Minor When creating a a RuleBasedAgent with the following code: org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.newRuleAgent(properties), having properties only the url property, the following stacktrace appears: java.io.IOException: Was unable to reach server. at org.drools.agent.URLScanner.hasChanged(URLScanner.java:155) at org.drools.agent.URLScanner.getChangeSet(URLScanner.java:119) at org.drools.agent.URLScanner.loadPackageChanges(URLScanner.java:96) at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.checkForChanges(RuleAgent.java:410) at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.refreshRuleBase(RuleAgent.java:362) at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.configure(RuleAgent.java:347) at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.init(RuleAgent.java:247) at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.newRuleAgent(RuleAgent.java:187) at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.newRuleAgent(RuleAgent.java:147) followed by java.lang.NullPointerException at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.refreshRuleBase(RuleAgent.java:363) at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.configure(RuleAgent.java:347) at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.init(RuleAgent.java:247) at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.newRuleAgent(RuleAgent.java:187) at org.drools.agent.RuleAgent.newRuleAgent(RuleAgent.java:147) That´s OK to throw the IOException, but the NullPointerException should not happen. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira