[OSM-dev] java.lang.NumberFormatException: null error with osmosis 0.30.3

[Maarten Deen]

Karl Newman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl 
> <mailto:mdeen at xs4all.nl>> wrote:

>     Ok. I downloaded the node from the api and I see the difference. I
>     got this from
>     one of the xapi servers. Guess they're not yet fully 0.6 compliant then.
>     Or is there a way of getting osmosis to disregard the fact that
>     there is no
>     version attribute?
> 
>     Regards,
>     Maarten
> 
> 
> Well, I know there's currently no way to make Osmosis ignore a missing 
> version attribute, but it's certainly possible to program that 
> functionality as an option. It could just create a synthetic version 
> number (0?) for use in the rest of the pipeline. This would likely 
> prevent it from being uploaded (without further manipulation, anyway). 
> I'll leave it to others to debate the wisdom of providing such an option 
> for non-compliant files, though.

I've found that osmosis will still read a (xapi) 0.6 file in 0.5 mode. It does 
complain that the version number does not match, but it reads it fine. So no 
workaround necessary.

Regards,
Maarten