# IntelliJ SonarLint Plugin: Failed to update project **URL:** \ **Category:** SonarQube Server / Community Build\ **Tags:** intellij, sonarqube, sonarqube-ide\ **Created:** [October 15, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/intellij-sonarlint-plugin-failed-to-update-project/51549 "2021-10-15T12:28:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newlukai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b4bc9f/32.png) [@newlukai](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/newlukai)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/intellij-sonarlint-plugin-failed-to-update-project/51549/1 "2021-10-15T12:28:50Z")
# Versions - SonarQube: 8.9.2.46101 - IntelliJ: 2021.2.2 (Runtime version 11.0.12) - SonarLint Plugin: 6.0.0.37696 # error observed I tried to bind a new project and got the following error: ![grafik](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/uploads/sonarcommunity/original/3X/b/d/bddd239e5f44e931a8b9765fa132849954d04c22.png) But even after updating the server bindings I get this message. Which is quite interesting since I chose the project from the project list. # steps to reproduce I tried to analyze what’s going wrong and got the hint that there is a Verbose Output option for the Log window. So I enabled it and got the following: ```auto Project 'a' in server binding 'SonarQube' updated GET 200 https://…/sonarqube/api/qualityprofiles/search.protobuf?project=b | response time=37ms Downloaded project quality profiles in 37ms GET 200 https://…/sonarqube/api/settings/values.protobuf?component=b | response time=24ms Downloaded settings in 25ms Page downloaded in 27ms GET 200 https://…/sonarqube/batch/issues?key=b | response time=24ms null java.lang.NullPointerException at java.base/java.io.ByteArrayInputStream.(ByteArrayInputStream.java:108) at org.sonarlint.intellij.http.ApacheHttpResponse.bodyAsStream(ApacheHttpResponse.kt:35) at org.sonarlint.intellij.http.ApacheHttpResponse.bodyAsStream(ApacheHttpResponse.kt:26) at org.sonarsource.sonarlint.core.serverapi.issue.IssueApi.lambda$downloadAllFromBatchIssues$4(IssueApi.java:121) at org.sonarsource.sonarlint.core.serverapi.ServerApiHelper.processTimed(ServerApiHelper.java:221) at org.sonarsource.sonarlint.core.serverapi.issue.IssueApi.downloadAllFromBatchIssues(IssueApi.java:113) at org.sonarsource.sonarlint.core.container.connected.update.IssueDownloader.download(IssueDownloader.java:79) at org.sonarsource.sonarlint.core.container.connected.update.perform.ServerIssueUpdater.updateServerIssues(ServerIssueUpdater.java:52) at org.sonarsource.sonarlint.core.container.connected.update.perform.ProjectStorageUpdateExecutor.updateServerIssues(ProjectStorageUpdateExecutor.java:102) at org.sonarsource.sonarlint.core.container.connected.update.perform.ProjectStorageUpdateExecutor.lambda$update$0(ProjectStorageUpdateExecutor.java:62) at org.sonarsource.sonarlint.core.client.api.util.FileUtils.replaceDir(FileUtils.java:233) at org.sonarsource.sonarlint.core.container.connected.update.perform.ProjectStorageUpdateExecutor.update(ProjectStorageUpdateExecutor.java:60) at org.sonarsource.sonarlint.core.container.connected.ConnectedContainer.updateProject(ConnectedContainer.java:140) at org.sonarsource.sonarlint.core.ConnectedSonarLintEngineImpl.updateProject(ConnectedSonarLintEngineImpl.java:286) at org.sonarlint.intellij.tasks.BindingStorageUpdateTask.updateProject(BindingStorageUpdateTask.java:181) at org.sonarlint.intellij.tasks.BindingStorageUpdateTask.updateProjects(BindingStorageUpdateTask.java:157) at org.sonarlint.intellij.tasks.BindingStorageUpdateTask.run(BindingStorageUpdateTask.java:110) at org.sonarlint.intellij.tasks.BindingStorageUpdateTask$2.run(BindingStorageUpdateTask.java:85) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.startTask(CoreProgressManager.java:450) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.ProgressManagerImpl.startTask(ProgressManagerImpl.java:117) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.lambda$runProcessWithProgressAsync$5(CoreProgressManager.java:510) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.ProgressRunner.lambda$submit$3(ProgressRunner.java:243) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.lambda$runProcess$2(CoreProgressManager.java:183) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.registerIndicatorAndRun(CoreProgressManager.java:705) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.executeProcessUnderProgress(CoreProgressManager.java:647) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.ProgressManagerImpl.executeProcessUnderProgress(ProgressManagerImpl.java:63) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.runProcess(CoreProgressManager.java:170) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.ProgressRunner.lambda$submit$4(ProgressRunner.java:243) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$AsyncSupply.run(CompletableFuture.java:1700) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$PrivilegedThreadFactory$1$1.run(Executors.java:668) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$PrivilegedThreadFactory$1$1.run(Executors.java:665) at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$PrivilegedThreadFactory$1.run(Executors.java:665) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829) ``` SonarQube sends a 200, but an NPE is thrown? Interesting. So I opened a browser and hit that URL and got a response: a 0 byte “issues” file. This project has no issues. # potential workaround Unbind the project? I’m not sure, but quite convinced, that there is a bug receiving a 0 byte file from SonarQube. Might that be possible? ---
**Author:** ![newlukai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b4bc9f/32.png) [@newlukai](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/newlukai)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 8:23am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/intellij-sonarlint-plugin-failed-to-update-project/51549/2 "2021-10-18T08:23:09Z")
The [sonarlint-intellij](https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarlint-intellij/blob/96722ed4d3f1c1d3bac966511fee034826484ab8/src/main/java/org/sonarlint/intellij/http/ApacheHttpResponse.kt#L35) plugin extracts the `bodyBytes` of the response and uses it as constructor parameter for `ByteArrayInputStream`. I guess the `bodyBytes` are `null`. I tried to verify in the HttpClient5 source code that an empty server response would lead to a `null` `bodyBytes` member. But I wasn’t able to figure this out, I was not able to find the place(s) where responses are received and the corresponding objects built. ---
**Author:** ![Damien\_Urruty](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/damien_urruty/32/43383_2.png) [@Damien\_Urruty](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/Damien_Urruty)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 9:40am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/intellij-sonarlint-plugin-failed-to-update-project/51549/3 "2021-10-20T09:40:08Z")
Hello, Welcome to the community and thanks for raising this issue. I am not able to reproduce, it works on my side if there is no issue on the server. But indeed your analysis is correct and `bodyBytes` is nullable, so I think in certain cases it can cause an exception. I created this [ticket](https://jira.sonarsource.com/browse/SLI-626) to fix the problem. Thanks again for reporting! ---
**Author:** ![newlukai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b4bc9f/32.png) [@newlukai](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/newlukai)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/intellij-sonarlint-plugin-failed-to-update-project/51549/4 "2021-10-21T06:19:03Z")
Thanks for investigating on this. It’s puzzling me that you can’t reproduce this. But I’m absolutely fine waiting for this change. ---
**Author:** ![JBL\_SonarSource](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/jbl_sonarsource/32/64_2.png) [@JBL\_SonarSource](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/JBL_SonarSource)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/intellij-sonarlint-plugin-failed-to-update-project/51549/5 "2021-11-10T13:53:10Z")
Hello, FYI version 6.2.0.39326 which includes a fix for the aforementioned issue has just been published to the JetBrains plugin repository. ---
**Author:** ![newlukai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b4bc9f/32.png) [@newlukai](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/newlukai)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/intellij-sonarlint-plugin-failed-to-update-project/51549/6 "2021-11-10T14:53:56Z")
Works now. Thank you very much! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/system/32/31083_2.png) [@system](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/intellij-sonarlint-plugin-failed-to-update-project/51549/7 "2021-11-17T14:54:06Z")
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