Re: Mauve results

[David Gilbert]

David Gilbert wrote:

> I've found a good free-swing candidate to work on for the next release 
> cycle:
>
> http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
>
> This is a really useful tool for finding common bugs, I've run it a 
> few times on my own projects and it always highlights something that 
> needs fixing.
>
> Anyway, the Swing GUI is a shade more complex than the JUnit 
> TestRunner, but not so complex that we don't have a chance to get it 
> working.  It uses the JFileChooser (so that will give me something to 
> focus on with the patch I've been working on), some menus that could 
> be tidied up, some custom tree cell rendering, some layout issues, but 
> already looks like it is not far short of doing something useful.  The 
> only downside is that it uses HTML for some output...I guess we won't 
> get that to work in the short term.
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave


I got this to run through an analysis on JFreeChart (hundreds of 
classes) but, alas, it fails at the last step so I didn't get to see the 
output:

Exception during event dispatch:
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
  at java.lang.VMSystem.arraycopy (Native Method)
  at java.lang.System.arraycopy (System.java:234)
  at javax.swing.text.BoxView.replace (BoxView.java:250)
  at javax.swing.text.View.updateChildren (View.java:385)
  at javax.swing.text.View.insertUpdate (View.java:293)
  at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI$RootView.insertUpdate 
(BasicTextUI.java:304)
  at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI$DocumentHandler.insertUpdate 
(BasicTextUI.java:382)
  at javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument.fireInsertUpdate 
(AbstractDocument.java:285)
  at javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument.insertString 
(AbstractDocument.java:547)
  at javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument.replace (AbstractDocument.java:732)
  at javax.swing.text.JTextComponent.setText (JTextComponent.java:1025)
  at javax.swing.JEditorPane.setText (JEditorPane.java:751)
  at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.gui.AnalysisErrorDialog.finish 
(AnalysisErrorDialog.java:220)
  at 
edu.umd.cs.findbugs.gui.FindBugsFrame.findBugsButtonActionPerformed 
(FindBugsFrame.java:2196)
  at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.gui.FindBugsFrame.access$3000 
(FindBugsFrame.java:127)
  at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.gui.FindBugsFrame$13.actionPerformed 
(FindBugsFrame.java:863)

But the GUI to start the analysis is usable, and highlights some things 
to fix in our swing implementation.

Regards,

Dave