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Two playable card images would not download, plus 66 unimplemented cards would not download.

I was going to include the clipboard copy of these errors, but this program said "Your post looks too spamy for a new user, please remove off-site URL's"

Byron wrote:Two playable card images would not download, plus 66 unimplemented cards would not download.

I was going to include the clipboard copy of these errors, but this program said "Your post looks too spamy for a new user, please remove off-site URL's"

Those cards will be the new ones from Conspiracy: Take the Crown. Magiccards.info doesn't have them up as yet (nor Eternal Masters for that matter) - Also I'm not sure if the HQ Pics forum has any of them yet. As for now, hold tight, and they should be available in the future

Another option would be to use Gatherer Extractor

OK, thanks

Hello Melvin, would a crash.log file help?

Huggybaby wrote:Hello Melvin, would a crash.log file help?

Absolutely! crash.png would be very useful as well if it has been generated. It is a screenshot the app at the point of crash.

OK, see attached. The png file doesn't look like what was on the screen when it crashed though.

Huggybaby wrote:OK, see attached. The png file doesn't look like what was on the screen when it crashed though.

Thanks, this is a known issue but still good to capture a few different cases where it happens as we are not sure of the cause. Added the crash report to https://github.com/magarena/magarena/issues/685

AI sacrificed Defense of the Heart and fetched Form of the Dragon.
SO either creature is not specified or Form of the Dragon is tagged as a creature.

melvin wrote:

Huggybaby wrote:OK, see attached. The png file doesn't look like what was on the screen when it crashed though.

Thanks, this is a known issue but still good to capture a few different cases where it happens as we are not sure of the cause. Added the crash report to https://github.com/magarena/magarena/issues/685

Couldn't this null-pointer be a 'download images on demand' error related to the first bug?

btw magiccards.info has been updated now, so this shouldn't occur again, if it is the problem.

muppet wrote:AI sacrificed Defense of the Heart and fetched Form of the Dragon.
SO either creature is not specified or Form of the Dragon is tagged as a creature.

Hmm, without a log, it's hard to say what's happening. Suffice to say that it's neither of those problems. Creatures are specified, and Form of the Dragon isn't a creature.

There must be something else going on. (Enchantments are creatures? AI actually cast it and didn't put it onto the battlefield from Defense of the Heart?)

ShawnieBoy wrote:Couldn't this null-pointer be a 'download images on demand' error related to the first bug?

I feel that it is unlikely as the NPE bug has been around for a while. Do you have specific reasons for thinking they are related?

melvin wrote:

ShawnieBoy wrote:Couldn't this null-pointer be a 'download images on demand' error related to the first bug?

I feel that it is unlikely as the NPE bug has been around for a while. Do you have specific reasons for thinking they are related?

From the crash log:

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Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
   at java.text.Normalizer.normalize(Unknown Source)
   at magic.data.CardDefinitions.getASCII(CardDefinitions.java:164)
   at magic.model.MagicCardDefinition.getAsciiName(MagicCardDefinition.java:289)
   at magic.data.CardDefinitions.loadMissingCards(CardDefinitions.java:377)
   at magic.data.CardDefinitions.getMissingCards(CardDefinitions.java:457)
   at magic.ui.image.download.UnimplementedPanel.getCards(UnimplementedPanel.java:30)
   at magic.ui.image.download.ScanWorker.getImagesDownloadList(ScanWorker.java:23)
   at magic.ui.image.download.ScanWorker.doInBackground(ScanWorker.java:29)
   at magic.ui.image.download.ScanWorker.doInBackground(ScanWorker.java:8)
   at javax.swing.SwingWorker$1.call(Unknown Source)
   at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
   at javax.swing.SwingWorker.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

To me that looks like the downloader was told to get something that wasn't there. It's a null pointer, but a different one



It was my bad for the image download errors, I completely forgot that magiccards.info had stuttered for a while. Going forward it may well be that we'll be ahead of them when it comes to releases.

@Huggybaby's crash log actually contains three exception reports. The issue raised here was related to the final report at the end of the file and looks very similar to reports in issue #685 as mentioned by @melvin. The first two were generated in 1.74 in July and may be related to the download on demand as suggested, although we would need confirmation from @Huggybaby as to whether the download-on-demand setting is enabled. My suspicion is it might be to do with running the images download dialog in the background while playing a game.

ShawnieBoy wrote:

muppet wrote:AI sacrificed Defense of the Heart and fetched Form of the Dragon.
SO either creature is not specified or Form of the Dragon is tagged as a creature.

Hmm, without a log, it's hard to say what's happening. Suffice to say that it's neither of those problems. Creatures are specified, and Form of the Dragon isn't a creature.

There must be something else going on. (Enchantments are creatures? AI actually cast it and didn't put it onto the battlefield from Defense of the Heart?)

Sorry I think I figured out what must have happened it was odd it only got one card... So I think it got 2 creatures and sacced one to the other and got the form in that way. I'll keep a closer eye on it next time.