[Condor-users] untraceable stack trace

["Emily Watt" <ewhatt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I am having trouble debugging a stack trace I am receiving from submitting a condor job. Actually I am submitting a job through an API that allows for Java to run Condor jobs/programs. Essentially, I can run a Java program called 
TestSimple.java that contains the code to create a Condor submission file, submit it to the grid, and return any output. The submission file that is produced from running this Java program works independently of this API 
i.e. I can run condor_submit on this file and it properly produces the output I want, however once I run it through my Java program things go awry.

The stack trace I get looks like:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
: null value for attribute Message
            at condor.classad.RecordExpr.insertAttribute(RecordExpr.java:130)
            at condor.classad.ClassAdSAXHandler.addElement(ClassAdSAXHandler.java:264)
            at 
condor.classad.ClassAdSAXHandler.endElement(ClassAdSAXHandler:java:203)
            ...
            at java.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
            at condor.classad.ClassAdParser.parse(ClassAdParser.java
:272)
            at condor.classad.ClassAdParser.parse(ClassAdParser.java:297)
            at condorAPI.LogMonitor.readExpr(LogMonitor.java:69)
            at condorAPI.LogMonitor.readLog(LogMonitor.java:75)
            at condorAPI.LogMonitor.run(LogMonitor.java:97)
            at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I've looked in the readExpr, readLog methods/LogMonitor class within the condorAPI [the Java API that allows for Condor to be run through Java] and everything seems to check out properly. I just don't know where the Java is trying to add an attribute called "Message" that I didn't even specify in the submit file I'm trying to create.

Any ideas, suggestions as to what could be going wrong would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Emily