[Update Center] Automatically install dependencies

[David Racodon]

Hi,

When a plugin depends on another plugin and this plugin is missing, the error is a bit cryptic in the log. Is there any plan to improve the log?

Also, I plan to add rules on JSON files in the Puppet plugin. Thus, the Puppet plugin will depend on the JSON plugin. Is there any plan to deal with dependencies in the Update Center and automatically install the dependencies (the JSON plugin when installing the Puppet plugin for example)?

2016.08.04 21:52:20 INFO  ce[o.s.c.c.CePluginRepository] Load plugins

2016.08.04 21:52:20 ERROR ce[o.s.ce.app.CeServer] Compute Engine startup failed

java.lang.NullPointerException: null

at org.sonar.core.platform.PluginLoader.basePluginKey(PluginLoader.java:176) ~[sonar-core-5.6.jar:na]

at org.sonar.core.platform.PluginLoader.defineClassloaders(PluginLoader.java:85) ~[sonar-core-5.6.jar:na]

at org.sonar.core.platform.PluginLoader.load(PluginLoader.java:71) ~[sonar-core-5.6.jar:na]

at org.sonar.ce.container.CePluginRepository.start(CePluginRepository.java:71) ~[sonar-ce-5.6.jar:na]

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_45]

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[na:1.8.0_45]

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[na:1.8.0_45]

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) ~[na:1.8.0_45]

at org.picocontainer.lifecycle.ReflectionLifecycleStrategy.invokeMethod(ReflectionLifecycleStrategy.java:110) ~[picocontainer-2.15.jar:na]

at org.picocontainer.lifecycle.ReflectionLifecycleStrategy.start(ReflectionLifecycleStrategy.java:89) ~[picocontainer-2.15.jar:na]

at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer$1.start(ComponentContainer.java:320) ~[sonar-core-5.6.jar:na]

at org.picocontainer.injectors.AbstractInjectionFactory$LifecycleAdapter.start(AbstractInjectionFactory.java:84) ~[picocontainer-2.15.jar:na]

at org.picocontainer.behaviors.AbstractBehavior.start(AbstractBehavior.java:169) ~[picocontainer-2.15.jar:na]

at org.picocontainer.behaviors.Stored$RealComponentLifecycle.start(Stored.java:132) ~[picocontainer-2.15.jar:na]

at org.picocontainer.behaviors.Stored.start(Stored.java:110) ~[picocontainer-2.15.jar:na]

at org.picocontainer.DefaultPicoContainer.potentiallyStartAdapter(DefaultPicoContainer.java:1016) ~[picocontainer-2.15.jar:na]

at org.picocontainer.DefaultPicoContainer.startAdapters(DefaultPicoContainer.java:1009) ~[picocontainer-2.15.jar:na]

at org.picocontainer.DefaultPicoContainer.start(DefaultPicoContainer.java:767) ~[picocontainer-2.15.jar:na]

at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:141) ~[sonar-core-5.6.jar:na]

at org.sonar.ce.container.ComputeEngineContainerImpl.start(ComputeEngineContainerImpl.java:605) ~[sonar-ce-5.6.jar:na]

at org.sonar.ce.ComputeEngineImpl.startup(ComputeEngineImpl.java:43) ~[sonar-ce-5.6.jar:na]

at org.sonar.ce.app.CeServer$CeMainThread.startup(CeServer.java:175) [sonar-ce-5.6.jar:na]

at org.sonar.ce.app.CeServer$CeMainThread.attemptStartup(CeServer.java:165) [sonar-ce-5.6.jar:na]

at org.sonar.ce.app.CeServer$CeMainThread.run(CeServer.java:153) [sonar-ce-5.6.jar:na]

Thank you

Regards,

David RACODON

Freelance QA Consultant

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[eric.hi...@sonarsource.com]

Hello,

I agree on the cryptic message.

At this point there is no plan for such an automated management of dependencies that would help your case.

Only few others similar needs were identified so far, leaving the subject opened for the moment.

Regards,

Éric HIRLEMANN | SonarSource
http://sonarsource.com