[groovy-user] Re: [gant-user] Help with Ivy

On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 17:47 +0000, Russel Winder wrote:

> No ivy:settings found for the default reference 'ivy.instance'.  A
> default instance will be used
> no settings file found, using default...
> [ivy:cachepath] :: Ivy 2.0.0-beta1 - 20071206070608 ::
> http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ ::
> :: loading settings :: url =
> jar:file:/home/users/russel/lib/Java/groovy/lib/ivy-2.0.0-beta1.jar!/org/apache/ivy/core/settings/ivysettings.xml
> 
> BUILD FAILED
> /home/Checkouts/SVK/Gant/local/gant/trunk/examples/ivy/build.xml:36:
> impossible to resolve dependencies:
>         java.lang.NullPointerException

It turns out that this is the error message you get when you give the
wrong organization in an ivy:cachepath call.  So I changed:

    <ivy:cachepath organisation="apache" module="commons-lang"
revision="2.3"  pathid="lib.path.id" inline="true"/>

which gives the above error to:

    <ivy:cachepath organisation="commons-lang" module="commons-lang"
revision="2.3"  pathid="lib.path.id" inline="true"/>

and it all worked as required.

I think the moral of this episode is clear to all and it revolves around
the idea of providing sensible feedback.

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