[rfc][icedtea-web][policyeditor] NPE in filechanged check

Jiri Vanek jvanek at redhat.com
Thu Mar 13 07:11:52 UTC 2014


On 03/12/2014 04:36 PM, Andrew Azores wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just noticed that there are conditions where an NPE will occur due to the new filechanged check.
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) launch policyeditor with no arguments
> 2) create some set of permissions, eg Print Documents only, doesn't really matter so long as you
> make at least one change
> 3) press Apply
> 4) attempt to save the policy file to any location eg $HOME/test.policy
> 5) NPE will occur because there is no MD5SumWatcher reference, since no policy file was ever opened
> first
> 5b) file fails to save
>
> With the patch applied, 5/5b does not occur, and instead the flow completes as expected with a
> "Changes saved" message, and the file can be verified as written to disk.
>
> Thanks,

I'm missing the creation of fileWatcher  *after* the file is saved now.


J.



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