plantuml.jar 2017.10 appears to be broken

Question

Using a file containing simply:

   @startuml test.png
   version
   @enduml

...and also every other file I've tried it with, plantuml.jar 2017.10 gives the following exception report:

(0.427 - 981 Mo) 853 Mo - Reading file: test.txt

(0.427 - 981 Mo) 853 Mo - name from block=test.png

(0.427 - 981 Mo) 853 Mo - Checking=test.png

(0.427 - 981 Mo) 853 Mo - f=test.png

(0.428 - 981 Mo) 853 Mo - Relative, so let's change it

(0.428 - 981 Mo) 853 Mo - f=c:\Users\agillesp\Documents\test.png

(0.428 - 981 Mo) 853 Mo - It's not a directory

(0.429 - 981 Mo) 853 Mo - test.png is not taken as a directory

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

        at net.sourceforge.plantuml.SuggestedFile.<init>(SuggestedFile.java:48)

        at net.sourceforge.plantuml.SuggestedFile.fromOutputFile(SuggestedFile.java:74)

        at net.sourceforge.plantuml.SourceFileReader.getGeneratedImages(SourceFileReader.java:180)

        at net.sourceforge.plantuml.Run.manageFileInternal(Run.java:417)

        at net.sourceforge.plantuml.Run.processArgs(Run.java:328)

        at net.sourceforge.plantuml.Run.manageAllFiles(Run.java:298)

        at net.sourceforge.plantuml.Run.main(Run.java:158)

 

But it works fine with 2017.09 and earlier versions

 

Answer 1

Thanks for the report.

We'll fix this in next release, but not before a week.

A possible workaround is to remove the ".png" extension:

   @startuml test
   version
   @enduml

The .png will be added by PlantUML when generating the file.

Really sorry about this one!

Comments

No panic - I can use 2017.09 until then.

Thanks for your first class support.

--Alan G.