[MIB Designer] BUGs in MIB-Designer?

[Sellinath, Juergen]

Hi together,
I'm facing problems with the MIBDesigner v2.5.2 which became in the meanwhile more than
simply annoying (since I had similar problems with 1.x Versions, too):

I have a MIB, that MIBDesigner says is completely correct. Within this MIB there are some 
tables. If I now in the MIB-Tree on the left side select such a table - lets assume it has
the name fooTable, select "Edit..." from the context menu and just add a new column to the 
table, the mib is no longer valid. The syntax checker throws an exeption:
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Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.agentpp.smiparser.SMI2Java.checkSequence(SMI2Java.java:1835)
	at com.agentpp.smiparser.SMI2Java.checkNoDescendant(SMI2Java.java:1916)
	at com.agentpp.smiparser.SMI2Java.checkGroups(SMI2Java.java:1991)
	at com.agentpp.smiparser.SMI2Java.checkModule(SMI2Java.java:1641)
	at com.agentpp.smiparser.SMI2Java.visit(SMI2Java.java:1585)
	at com.agentpp.smiparser.SimpleNode.jjtAccept(SimpleNode.java:57)
	at com.agentpp.smiparser.SimpleNode.childrenAccept(SimpleNode.java:65)
	at com.agentpp.smiparser.SMI2Java.visit(SMI2Java.java:1582)
	at com.agentpp.smiparser.SimpleNode.jjtAccept(SimpleNode.java:57)
	at com.agentpp.smiparser.SimpleNode.childrenAccept(SimpleNode.java:65)
	at com.agentpp.smiparser.SMI2Java.visit(SMI2Java.java:1582)
	at com.agentpp.smiparser.SimpleNode.jjtAccept(SimpleNode.java:57)
	at com.agentpp.repository.DefaultRepositoryManager.checkModules(DefaultRepositoryManager.java:285)
	at com.agentpp.repository.DefaultRepositoryManager.checkModules(DefaultRepositoryManager.java:205)
	at com.agentpp.designer.MIBDesignerFrame.jButtonCheck_actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
	at com.agentpp.designer.MIBDesignerFrame$35.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1849)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2169)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:420)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:258)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:234)
	at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:232)
	at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5488)
	at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3126)
	at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5253)
	at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1966)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3955)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2024)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4212)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3892)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3822)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2010)
	at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1774)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
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The problem is - this can be found, when using "Edit->MIB file editor..." - that fooEntry
(the row object with the small foo within the name) and FooEntry (the sequence definition 
of Leafs with the capital FOO in the name for each row) are gone. 

The SMI Editor on the left side, however, still shows these two (updated) parts, when I select the 
item fooEntry on the navigation tree on the left side. So whenever adding leafs to a table,
I have to use the MIB file Editor jump to the location between the table and the first
column and copy there the row object and the sequence definition.

BTW: The problem is the same, if I choose fooEntry's context menu instead of fooTable's.


Another point that bores me is, that if I have for example two colums with the OIDs xxx.1 
and xxx.10 and I want to add a column with the OID xxx.5 then I always get the new column
added as xxx.11 :( I first have to close the tables/entries edit dialog and then assigning
the new OID by changing the leaf directly


I now tried to create a small sample MIB to check whether this might be a problem fo my MIB.
But whenever I click on the "Create new mib Module" button I reproducably get an error popup 
	The current repository path is invalid: 
	<path>
	Could not create new MIB module!

Regardless whether I try to set the repository path to what it is, change it to some invalid
path like /tmp and an then back to the former (in fact) valid one or doing nothing about - the
next time I click on the "create new MIB module" button I get the following exception.
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Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: -1, Tab count: 0
	at javax.swing.JTabbedPane.checkIndex(JTabbedPane.java:1562)
	at javax.swing.JTabbedPane.removeTabAt(JTabbedPane.java:797)
	at javax.swing.JTabbedPane.remove(JTabbedPane.java:880)
	at com.agentpp.designer.MIBDesignerFrame.closeCurrentPanel(Unknown Source)
	at com.agentpp.designer.MIBDesignerFrame.jMenuItemNewWindow_actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
	at com.agentpp.designer.MIBDesignerFrame.jButtonNew_actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
	at com.agentpp.designer.MIBDesignerFrame$32.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1849)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2169)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:420)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:258)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:234)
	at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:232)
	at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5488)
	at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3126)
	at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5253)
	at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1966)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3955)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2024)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4212)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3892)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3822)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2010)
	at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1774)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
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Yet another - less important problem:
Within some MIB modules I have imported textual conventions from higher level MIB modules. But
there are always some TCs that I did not want to import and which I cant get rid of. Even deleting
the compiled MIB module from the repository, editing the textual representation manually and deleting
the unwanted TCs and the import statement and importing the such cleaned up module will not help.
BTW: Why are the definitions of some (maybe all?) imported TCs copied into the textual representation?
I'd have assumed, that the IMPORTS foo from BAR-MIB would have been sufficiant?


Has anybody an Idea what's going wrong here?
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Jürgen Sellinath
SW-Engineer

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