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Bug 378778

Summary:	ApplicationLauncherImpl#getContextFileName calls BundleContext.getDataFile(String) with absolute Path
Product:	[RT] RAP	Reporter:	Frank Appel <fr.appel>
Component:	RWT	Assignee:	Project Inbox <rap-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	P2
Version:	1.5
Target Milestone:	1.5 RC1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Frank Appel

2012-05-08 01:39:51 EDT

There is a bug in the RAP RWT OSGi Bundle Version 1.5.0M6, Class ApplicationLauncherImpl, line 229.
The OSGi spec sais that any path passed to bundleContext.getDataFile() should be relative (http://www.osgi.org/javadoc/r4v43/org/osgi/framework/BundleContext.html#getDataFile(java.lang.String))

ApplicationLauncherImpl calls this method always with an absolute path (see method getContextFileName), which will return null and then there is a NPE on line 221.

Comment 1 Ralf Sternberg

2012-05-09 08:37:44 EDT

I cannot reproduce the NPE with current Equinox OSGi, where getDataFile() seems to accept absolute paths as well. For both "/rwtcontext_xxx" and "rwtcontext_xxx", the same file name is returned. This might explain why this issue wasn't noticed. So I think it's safe to simply remove the leading slash.

The change is in CVS and will be part of 1.5RC1.