[Soot-list] Null Pointer Exception when Creating Dummy Main Method for APK

[R.F.]

Hi,

First of all, please forgive me for reporting so many issues with
FlowDroid, since I am studying and testing it heavily recently as a newbie.
To Steven and all the contributors of Soot, I cannot be more grateful. I'm
glad to see Soot keep getting better and better.

I was analyzing  another APK using the given test class of FlowDroid.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0ceYAgUVEZbZmVmbnZWTEY5T0E/view?usp=sharing

However, the following exception is thrown:

> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>
> at soot.Hierarchy.<init>(Hierarchy.java:128)
>
> at soot.Scene.getActiveHierarchy(Scene.java:957)
>
> at
>> soot.jimple.infoflow.entryPointCreators.AndroidEntryPointCreator.getComponentType(AndroidEntryPointCreator.java:448)
>
> at
>> soot.jimple.infoflow.entryPointCreators.AndroidEntryPointCreator.createDummyMainInternal(AndroidEntryPointCreator.java:180)
>
> at
>> soot.jimple.infoflow.entryPointCreators.BaseEntryPointCreator.createDummyMainInternal(BaseEntryPointCreator.java:122)
>
> at
>> soot.jimple.infoflow.entryPointCreators.BaseEntryPointCreator.createDummyMain(BaseEntryPointCreator.java:107)
>
> at
>> soot.jimple.infoflow.android.SetupApplication.createMainMethod(SetupApplication.java:598)
>
> at
>> soot.jimple.infoflow.android.SetupApplication.calculateCallbackMethods(SetupApplication.java:447)
>
> at
>> soot.jimple.infoflow.android.SetupApplication.calculateSourcesSinksEntrypoints(SetupApplication.java:378)
>
> at
>> soot.jimple.infoflow.android.SetupApplication.calculateSourcesSinksEntrypoints(SetupApplication.java:344)
>
> at soot.jimple.infoflow.android.TestApps.Test.runAnalysis(Test.java:521)
>
> at soot.jimple.infoflow.android.TestApps.Test.main(Test.java:215)
>
>
>
My setup is the latest source code on the develop branch (or default branch
on GitHub) of Jasmin (https://github.com/Sable/jasmin), Heros (
https://github.com/Sable/heros), Soot (https://github.com/Sable/soot), Soot
Infoflow (https://github.com/secure-software-engineering/soot-infoflow) and
Soot Infoflow Android (
https://github.com/secure-software-engineering/soot-infoflow-android). My
arguments are "/PATH/TO/APK /PATH/TO/android-platforms". The
"android-platform" directory is also a clone of
https://github.com/Sable/android-platforms. The JRE used by Eclipse is
Oracle Java 7 on Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit (/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle).

Can you reproduce the issue?

Thanks so much.



Best Regards,
R.F.
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