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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>This is very strange. Your APK file contains classes that implement interfaces which are not actually interfaces, but proper classes. This should normally not be possible. Nevertheless, I have patched Soot to handle such cases. The code is on Github, a new nightly build will be available tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> Steven<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> soot-list-bounces@CS.McGill</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>.CA [mailto:soot-list-bounces@CS.McGill.CA] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>R.F.<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 4. August 2015 16:41<br><b>An:</b> soot-list@CS.McGill.CA<br><b>Betreff:</b> [Soot-list] Null Pointer Exception when Creating Dummy Main Method for APK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>I was analyzing another APK using the given test class of FlowDroid.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0ceYAgUVEZbZmVmbnZWTEY5T0E/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0ceYAgUVEZbZmVmbnZWTEY5T0E/view?usp=sharing</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>However, the following exception is thrown:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>at soot.Hierarchy.<init>(Hierarchy.java:128)</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>at soot.Scene.getActiveHierarchy(Scene.java:957)</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>at soot.jimple.infoflow.entryPointCreators.AndroidEntryPointCreator.getComponentType(AndroidEntryPointCreator.java:448)</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>at soot.jimple.infoflow.entryPointCreators.AndroidEntryPointCreator.createDummyMainInternal(AndroidEntryPointCreator.java:180)</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>at soot.jimple.infoflow.entryPointCreators.BaseEntryPointCreator.createDummyMainInternal(BaseEntryPointCreator.java:122)</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>at soot.jimple.infoflow.entryPointCreators.BaseEntryPointCreator.createDummyMain(BaseEntryPointCreator.java:107)</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>at soot.jimple.infoflow.android.SetupApplication.createMainMethod(SetupApplication.java:598)</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>at soot.jimple.infoflow.android.SetupApplication.calculateCallbackMethods(SetupApplication.java:447)</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>at soot.jimple.infoflow.android.SetupApplication.calculateSourcesSinksEntrypoints(SetupApplication.java:378)</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>at soot.jimple.infoflow.android.SetupApplication.calculateSourcesSinksEntrypoints(SetupApplication.java:344)</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>at soot.jimple.infoflow.android.TestApps.Test.runAnalysis(Test.java:521)</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>at soot.jimple.infoflow.android.TestApps.Test.main(Test.java:215)</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>My setup is the latest source code on the develop branch (or default branch on GitHub) of Jasmin (<a href="https://github.com/Sable/jasmin" target="_blank">https://github.com/Sable/jasmin</a>), Heros (<a href="https://github.com/Sable/heros" target="_blank">https://github.com/Sable/heros</a>), Soot (<a href="https://github.com/Sable/soot" target="_blank">https://github.com/Sable/soot</a>), Soot Infoflow (<a href="https://github.com/secure-software-engineering/soot-infoflow" target="_blank">https://github.com/secure-software-engineering/soot-infoflow</a>) and Soot Infoflow Android (<a href="https://github.com/secure-software-engineering/soot-infoflow-android" target="_blank">https://github.com/secure-software-engineering/soot-infoflow-android</a>). My arguments are "/PATH/TO/APK /PATH/TO/android-platforms". The "android-platform" directory is also a clone of <a href="https://github.com/Sable/android-platforms" target="_blank">https://github.com/Sable/android-platforms</a>. The JRE used by Eclipse is Oracle Java 7 on Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit (/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Can you reproduce the issue?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Thanks so much.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>R.F. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>