"Deploy All Metadata" experiences Null Pointer Exception - Causes Deploy to fail without notifying user of problems

[Vivek M. Chawla]

I have an IDEA project with two Illuminated Cloud modules. Each module points to a different Salesforce org.

After adding several hundred files to one of the modules by pulling / merging from a Git repo, I tried to push the new and modified metadata to that module's associated org by using the "Deploy All Metadata" feature.

In the "Select Deployment Scope" dialog, I selected the appropriate Connection, and for "Contents" I selected the name of the module I wanted to deploy. I left the "Filter by Content Selection" box unchecked.

From my perspective as a user, the UI showed the "Comparing Local and Server Metadata States" progress pop-up. The progress bar got close to completion, and then it disappears. Nothing happens from that point on, and I have no idea if the deploy succeeded or failed.

By looking into the idea.log file, it looks like there is a null-pointer exception that is causing the problem. I have emailed you the idea.log folder directly, but here is a small snippet:

-31 13:40:52,436 [1466340]  DEBUG - tellij.builder.ForceComBuilder - Local file not on server: /IDEA/SAMPLE_PROJECT2/AMXPACKAGE/src/workflows/WorkPerformanceCycle.workflow 
2016-01-31 13:40:52,667 [1466571]  ERROR - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - null 
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.illuminatedcloud.intellij.builder.ForceComBuilder.validateConflicts(SourceFile:2390)
    at com.illuminatedcloud.intellij.builder.ForceComBuilder.fullBuild(SourceFile:2477)
    at com.illuminatedcloud.intellij.builder.FullBuildAction.build(SourceFile:17)
    at com.illuminatedcloud.intellij.builder.AbstractDeployAction.doActionPerformed(SourceFile:84)
    at com.illuminatedcloud.intellij.builder.AbstractBuildAction.actionPerformed(SourceFile:86)
    at com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.ex.ActionUtil.performActionDumbAware(ActionUtil.java:182)
    at com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionMenuItem$ActionTransmitter$1.run(ActionMenuItem.java:311)
    at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.FocusManagerImpl.runOnOwnContext(FocusManagerImpl.java:958)
    at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.IdeFocusManagerImpl.runOnOwnContext(IdeFocusManagerImpl.java:124)
    at com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionMenuItem$ActionTransmitter.actionPerformed(ActionMenuItem.java:281)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2022)
    at com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionMenuItem.fireActionPerformed(ActionMenuItem.java:109)
    at com.intellij.ui.plaf.beg.BegMenuItemUI.a(BegMenuItemUI.java:513)
    at com.intellij.ui.plaf.beg.BegMenuItemUI.access$300(BegMenuItemUI.java:45)
    at com.intellij.ui.plaf.beg.BegMenuItemUI$MyMouseInputHandler.mouseReleased(BegMenuItemUI.java:533)
    at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6535)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3324)
    at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6300)
    at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2236)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4891)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2294)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4713)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4888)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4525)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4466)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2280)
    at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2750)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4713)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:758)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:86)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:731)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:729)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:728)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.c(IdeEventQueue.java:866)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:650)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:381)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)
2016-01-31 13:40:52,668 [1466572]  ERROR - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - IntelliJ IDEA 15.0.3  Build #IU-143.1821.5 
2016-01-31 13:40:52,668 [1466572]  ERROR - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - JDK: 1.8.0_40-release 
2016-01-31 13:40:52,668 [1466572]  ERROR - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 
2016-01-31 13:40:52,668 [1466572]  ERROR - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - Vendor: JetBrains s.r.o 
2016-01-31 13:40:52,668 [1466572]  ERROR - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - OS: Mac OS X 
2016-01-31 13:40:52,668 [1466572]  ERROR - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - Last Action: IlluminatedCloud.FullBuild 
2016-01-31 13:40:52,739 [1466643]  DEBUG - tellij.builder.ForceComBuilder - Initialized local source caches for 46 files in 62 ms. 
2016-01-31 13:40:52,773 [1466677]  DEBUG - tellij.builder.ForceComBuilder - Initialized local source caches for 46 files in 86 ms. 

I have verified that I can deploy to server by "saving" metadata one file at a time. I have also verified that I can deploy a single folder, and even multiple folders using the "selected" scope. Seems like the problem is only showing up when I try to deploy the entire module.

[Scott Wells]

It appears that one of the files being deployed has been most recently changed by another user and is therefore a potential conflict, but unfortunately the specifics of the user aren't being returned by the API call. As a result, getLastModifiedByUser().getName() is causing the NPE. I can (and will!) obviously be defensive against this situation, but it's a little strange that the last modified by user info isn't being returned...

[Scott Wells]

Okay, I added defensive handling of this situation as well as logging when it happens. This will be in the next build.

[Scott Wells]

Should be fixed in 1.6.8.2, though you won't get the exact conflicting username in these situations, just the user ID at most.