[kepler-dev] [Bug 4503] New: - Suggest Similar Components gives an error

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4503

           Summary: Suggest Similar Components gives an error
           Product: Kepler
           Version: 1.x dev
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: semantics
        AssignedTo: sbowers at ucdavis.edu
        ReportedBy: barseghian at nceas.ucsb.edu
         QAContact: kepler-dev at kepler-project.org


If I right click on an actor on canvas and select Suggest => Similar
Components, I get an NPE. This happens in the kepler and wrp suites.


java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.kepler.objectmanager.ActorMetadata.getActorAsNamedObj(ActorMetadata.java:693)
        at
org.kepler.gui.GraphicalActorMetadata.<init>(GraphicalActorMetadata.java:72)
        at
org.kepler.sms.gui.SuggestCompatibleOperation._getComponents(SuggestCompatibleOperation.java:333)
        at
org.kepler.sms.gui.SuggestCompatibleOperation._buildSimilarComponents(SuggestCompatibleOperation.java:301)
        at
org.kepler.sms.gui.SuggestCompatibleOperation._searchForComponents(SuggestCompatibleOperation.java:219)
        at
org.kepler.sms.gui.SuggestCompatibleOperation._suggestComponents(SuggestCompatibleOperation.java:174)
        at
org.kepler.sms.gui.SuggestCompatibleOperation.<init>(SuggestCompatibleOperation.java:103)
        at
org.kepler.sms.gui.SuggestSimilarComponentsAction.actionPerformed(SuggestSimilarComponentsAction.java:75)