Bamboo Specs: NullPointerException when trying to add CVS repository
Asked by Chris Farris:

I'm trying to write a simple Bamboo spec which will check out source code from a CVS repository. A slightly modified version of the plan I'm trying to create as a starter is shown below

```
 Plan createPlan()
 {
     Plan plan = new Plan(new Project().name("Spec Testing").key("SPEC"), "Spec Plan", "PLAN")
         .description("Plan generated from spec");
 
     AtlassianModule atlassianModuleCvs = new AtlassianModule("com.atlassian.bamboo.plugin.system.repository:cvs");
 
     Map<String,Object> cvsConf = new HashMap<String,Object>();
     cvsConf.put("cvsRoot", "/");
     cvsConf.put("authType", "password");
     cvsConf.put("password", "password123");
     cvsConf.put("quietPeriod", 2);
     cvsConf.put("module", "sw");
     cvsConf.put("selectedVersionType", "branch");
     cvsConf.put("branchName", "REL-1-0");
  
     Map <String,Object> srvConf = new HashMap<String,Object>();
     srvConf.put("repository.cvs", cvsConf);
 
     plan.planRepositories(new AnyVcsRepository(atlassianModuleCvs)
         .name("CVS Repository")
         .serverConfiguration(srvConf));
 
     return plan;
 }
```

When I run the spec initially, everything seems fine until I try to access the plan in Bamboo, at which point I get an internal server error with a NullPointerException. The full stack trace is [here](https://pastebin.com/qg9wwhtx), but I think the key parts are the following lines where it tries to read the plan repository definition:

```
io.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: java.lang.NullPointerException	at io.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:156)	at io.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:116)	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.cache.AbstractImmutableChain.getPlanRepositoryDefinitions(AbstractImmutableChain.java:231)	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.PlanHelper.getPlanRepositoryDefinitions(PlanHelper.java:49)	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.PlanHelper.getDefaultPlanRepositoryDefinition(PlanHelper.java:69)	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.branch.ChainBranchUtils.getANameFromBranch(ChainBranchUtils.java:64)	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.branch.ChainBranchUtils.getSubstitutedVcsBranchDisplayNameWithoutContextChange(ChainBranchUtils.java:51)	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.branch.ChainBranchUtils.getChainBranchNameWithoutContextChange(ChainBranchUtils.java:110)	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.branch.ChainBranchUtils.lambda$getChainBranchNameInTemporaryContext$3(ChainBranchUtils.java:101)	at com.atlassian.bamboo.variable.CustomVariableContextImpl.withVariableSubstitutor(CustomVariableContextImpl.java:196)	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.branch.ChainBranchUtils.getChainBranchNameInTemporaryContext(ChainBranchUtils.java:100)	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.branch.ChainBranchUtils.getChainBranchName(ChainBranchUtils.java:95)	at com.atlassian.bamboo.ww2.beans.DecoratedNavObjectFactoryImpl.getSubstitutedBranchName(DecoratedNavObjectFactoryImpl.java:132)
        ...
```

Am I doing something wrong here? I know we should really move away from CVS, but that's not something we can easily do right now. I'm using Bamboo 6.1.1.


Answers:
author: Alexey Chystoprudov
body: try to go other way around. create plan with CVS repository and then go to Plan configuration and choose "View plan as Bamboo Spec"![Screen Shot 2017-09-11 at 21.24.13.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6026i7F83E609F49089C8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-09-11 at 21.24.13.png")

comments: author: Chris Farris
body: I've just tried this, but I'm still getting the same problem. I've attached the generated code below, if it helps at all.

Also, I tried this with SVN and Mercurial to see if they worked, which they do. The only difference I can see is that branchConfiguration is called for SVN and Mercurial, but not for CVS. Is there some branch configuration I need to populate?

```
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.BambooSpec;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.AtlassianModule;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.BambooKey;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.BambooOid;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.permission.PermissionType;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.permission.Permissions;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.permission.PlanPermissions;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.plan.Plan;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.plan.PlanIdentifier;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.plan.branches.BranchCleanup;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.plan.branches.PlanBranchManagement;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.plan.configuration.ConcurrentBuilds;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.project.Project;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.repository.AnyVcsRepository;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.api.builders.repository.VcsChangeDetection;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.util.BambooServer;
import com.atlassian.bamboo.specs.util.MapBuilder;

@BambooSpec
public class PlanSpec {
 public static void main(String... argv) {
 //By default credentials are read from the '.credentials' file.
 BambooServer bambooServer = new BambooServer("http://buildserver:8085");
 
 Plan plan = new Plan(new Project()
 .oid(new BambooOid("jfym841e38jn"))
 .key(new BambooKey("SPEC"))
 .name("Spec Testing"),
 "Plan Name",
 new BambooKey("PLAN"))
 .oid(new BambooOid("jfox0io69gyd"))
 .description("Plan created from (enter repository url of your plan)")
 .pluginConfigurations(new ConcurrentBuilds()
 .useSystemWideDefault(false)
 .maximumNumberOfConcurrentBuilds(20))
 .planRepositories(new AnyVcsRepository(new AtlassianModule("com.atlassian.bamboo.plugin.system.repository:cvs"))
 .name("Test")
 .oid(new BambooOid("jft2oceerdpb"))
 .serverConfiguration(new MapBuilder()
 .put("repository.cvs", new MapBuilder()
 .put("cvsRoot", "/path/to/cvs/server")
 .put("password", "BAMSCRT@0@0@cD10yGZALomfb2AqsUj5lQ==")
 .put("quietPeriod", 2)
 .put("module", "sw")
 .put("branchName", "REL-1-0")
 .put("authType", "password")
 .put("selectedVersionType", "branch")
 .build())
 .build())
 .changeDetectionConfiguration(new VcsChangeDetection()))
 
 .planBranchManagement(new PlanBranchManagement()
 .delete(new BranchCleanup()));
 
 bambooServer.publish(plan);
 
 PlanPermissions planPermission = new PlanPermissions(new PlanIdentifier("SPEC", "PLAN"))
 .permissions(new Permissions()
 .userPermissions("cfarr", PermissionType.ADMIN, PermissionType.CLONE, PermissionType.EDIT)
 .groupPermissions("bamboo-admin", PermissionType.ADMIN)
 .loggedInUserPermissions(PermissionType.VIEW)
 .anonymousUserPermissionView());
 
 bambooServer.publish(planPermission);
 }
}
```


author: Alexey Chystoprudov
body: Sorry for delay. Confirming it's a bug in Bamboo Specs import of AnyVcsRepository entity.

Please watch <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-18682> for updates and fix version.


author: Chris Farris
body: Thanks for that, I'll keep an eye out!


author: Marek Parfianowicz
body: The BAM-18682 has been fixed in **Bamboo 6.2**.


Tags: spec