I'm trying to get the bnd-baseline-maven-plugin plugin working, but I get the following NPE: An error occurred while calculating the baseline: NullPointerException
A quick glance at the stacktrace shows the NPE happens in a Maven component, Aether, in class DefaultVersionResolver, where "VersionRequest" seems to be null (that would imply a problem with the invocation by bnd-baseline-maven-plugin ?).
I have an existing release in Maven Central I'd like to use as my baseline. I have a log in Maven debug mode showing the right version (1.0.0) is found. Setting it explicitly with the <base/> coordinates does not fix the issue:
[DEBUG] Baselining against Base [groupId=io.primeval, artifactId=primeval-commons, version=null, classifier=, extension=jar], fail on missing: true
[DEBUG] Skipped remote update check for io.primeval:primeval-commons/maven-metadata.xml, locally cached metadata up-to-date.
[DEBUG] Found versions [1.0.0-SNAPSHOT, 1.0.0]
[INFO] The baseline version was found to be 1.0.0
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2.385 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2017-04-28T17:58:06+02:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 16M/205M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal biz.aQute.bnd:bnd-baseline-maven-plugin:3.3.0:baseline (baseline) on project primeval-commons: An error occurred while calculating the baseline: NullPointerException -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal biz.aQute.bnd:bnd-baseline-maven-plugin:3.3.0:baseline (baseline) on project primeval-commons: An error occurred while calculating the baseline
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:216)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:116)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:80)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:120)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:347)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:154)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:582)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:214)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:158)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: An error occurred while calculating the baseline
at aQute.bnd.maven.baseline.plugin.BaselineMojo.execute(BaselineMojo.java:123)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:132)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208)
... 19 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultVersionResolver$Key.<init>(DefaultVersionResolver.java:559)
at org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultVersionResolver.resolveVersion(DefaultVersionResolver.java:183)
at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:318)
at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArtifacts(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:262)
at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArtifact(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:239)
at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultRepositorySystem.resolveArtifact(DefaultRepositorySystem.java:295)
at aQute.bnd.maven.baseline.plugin.BaselineMojo.locateBaseJar(BaselineMojo.java:193)
at aQute.bnd.maven.baseline.plugin.BaselineMojo.execute(BaselineMojo.java:89)
... 21 more