mxmlc NullPointerException crash

Alessandro Crugnola — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:44:19 +0000

Today I was getting crazy to find out why Flex didn’t want to compile my application.. Clicking on compile it started suddenly to give me an internal compile error and nothing else. So i tried to compile with the mxmlc from a console just to see the error log and the outpuw was:
java.lang.NullPointerException at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:891) at macromedia.asc.parser.BinaryExpressionNode.evaluate(BinaryExpressionNode.java:38) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:890) at macromedia.asc.parser.BinaryExpressionNode.evaluate(BinaryExpressionNode.java:38) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:891) at macromedia.asc.parser.BinaryExpressionNode.evaluate(BinaryExpressionNode.java:38) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:890) at macromedia.asc.parser.BinaryExpressionNode.evaluate(BinaryExpressionNode.java:38) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:962) at macromedia.asc.parser.ListNode.evaluate(ListNode.java:27) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:5859) at macromedia.asc.parser.LiteralXMLNode.evaluate(LiteralXMLNode.java:28) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:3087) at macromedia.asc.parser.VariableBindingNode.evaluate(VariableBindingNode.java:48) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:962) at macromedia.asc.parser.ListNode.evaluate(ListNode.java:27) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:2897) at macromedia.asc.parser.VariableDefinitionNode.evaluate(VariableDefinitionNode.java:32) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:4629) at macromedia.asc.parser.ClassDefinitionNode.evaluate(ClassDefinitionNode.java:86) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:938) at macromedia.asc.parser.ArgumentListNode.evaluate(ArgumentListNode.java:28) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:750) at macromedia.asc.parser.SetExpressionNode.evaluate(SetExpressionNode.java:39) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:580) at macromedia.asc.parser.MemberExpressionNode.evaluate(MemberExpressionNode.java:31) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:1273) at macromedia.asc.parser.ExpressionStatementNode.evaluate(ExpressionStatementNode.java:33) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:4407) at macromedia.asc.parser.ClassDefinitionNode.evaluate(ClassDefinitionNode.java:86) at macromedia.asc.semantics.FlowAnalyzer.evaluate(FlowAnalyzer.java:2577) at macromedia.asc.parser.ProgramNode.evaluate(ProgramNode.java:63) at flex2.compiler.as3.Compiler.analyze2(Compiler.java:436) at flex2.compiler.mxml.InterfaceCompiler.analyze2(InterfaceCompiler.java:337) at flex2.compiler.mxml.Compiler.analyze2(Compiler.java:130) at flex2.compiler.API.analyze(API.java:2360) at flex2.compiler.API.analyze(API.java:2275) at flex2.compiler.API.batch2(API.java:337) at flex2.compiler.API.batch(API.java:1025) at flex2.compiler.API.compile(API.java:1211) at flex2.compiler.API.compile(API.java:1114) at flex2.tools.Compiler.main(Compiler.java:222)
Wow!!
So, how can I find the problem? I can’t find any useful information from this log..
For this reason I had to remove portion of code from my mxml and from all the imported packages.. 2 hours of “debugging” gave me the solution!

A syntax error in a declaration of an XMLList was the problem! Fixed the line also the compiler started to run again with no problems.

This is a portion of mxml code to reproduce the problem:
;


< ![CDATA[
private var uuid:String = "";
private var menubarXML:XMLList =
<>



<>;

]]>

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mxmlc NullPointerException crash