Issue with updatePath() from eclglobalvariables

[jennifer.hughes@lnssi.com]

JDK: 7
Pentaho/kettle: (I think) 5.2.0.0
Windows 7 64-bit

I cloned the HPCCPentahoPlugin from git. I had to make one change. The items from codehaus have moved to https://repository.mulesoft.org/nexus/c ... ies/public. I built via the command line; ran the one-time command then the main build command. Built the base package and extracted it into the plugins directory in my pentaho/kettle project.

The issue is when I open an existing ECLGlobalVariable job and click on "OK" I get a null pointer exception.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.hpccsystems.pentaho.job.eclglobalvariables.ECLGlobalVariablesDialog.updatePaths(ECLGlobalVariablesDialog.java:455)
...

The includeML combo variable is null at the point in updatePaths() that it is checked.

If I switch back to the downloaded plugin from your site it works fine.

I am at a loss.

Thanks for any help...

[admin]

Thank you for your question. The team is currently researching the issue.

[joe.chambers]

We have scaled back support for these plugins and focused development on a ground up ETL tool. It appears that Pentaho no longer supports the 4.2.0-GA Libs that the MVN scripts point to.

I will try to block out some time in the next few weeks to finalize a branch with changes needed to run it against Kettle 5.2.

The changes will be posted here:
https://github.com/hpcc-systems/spoon-p ... al-release

If you are internal to the company reach out to us about DSP which will eventually replace most of the ELT type tools we are using.

[jwilt]

It might be worth considering that many (most?) Pentaho users would want to be able to call other platforms/interfaces from the same workflows.

(Safe to assume DSP would not fill that need?)