[resolved] Job cannot be opened

[Anonymous]

V 5.0.1
I was working on a job and deleted a component. Got a null pointer error. Saved the job, but now it cannot be opened.
All I get is a popup window: "An error has occurred. See error log for more details. Index: 12, Size: 12"
I have tried exporting the job, and also importing the whole workspace to a new one with alaways the same result.
Any ideas, I will lose many hours of work.

[Anonymous]

Hi
I'm sorry to tell you that your job has been corrupted.
The only way is to delete the job and recreate it.
Regards,
Pedro

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Pedro, Thanks, but your response was not really what I hoped for. I can read the XML source and my job appears to be intact. I think there must be some way to salvage at least parts of it right?
I found the following in the log:
!ENTRY org.eclipse.jface 4 2 2012-01-13 20:49:48.717
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.jface".
!STACK 0
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 12, Size: 12
at java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(ArrayList.java:547)
at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:322)
at org.talend.designer.core.ui.editor.connections.Connection.setInputId(Connection.java:1313)
at org.talend.designer.core.ui.editor.process.Process.loadConnections(Process.java:2180)
at org.talend.designer.core.ui.editor.process.Process.loadXmlFile(Process.java:1591)
Browsing the source here indicates a problem with assigning the merge order:
http://www.talendforge.org/trac/tos/browser/trunk/org.talend.designer.core/src/main/java/org/talend/...
After investigating the Merge Order to to tUnite_1 component, I found that the entry I was working on when the problem occurred has a merge order of 13, while no flow had a merge order of 1. So I simply changed the 13 to a 1 and the job can now be opened.
Hopefully nobody else has this problem, but if they do I hope this is helpful.

[Anonymous]

Hi
Thank you for your sharing.
Glad to see you fix it.
Regards,
Pedro