IntelliVault NullPointer Exception when pulling from CRX

[AEMnewbie]

I am using Intellij 2020.1.4,AEM 6.5 on mac. I see that the vault was missing so i downloaded vault-cli-3.4.4.I am trying to pull content from CRX . I see this error Connecting via JCR remoting to http://localhost:4504/crx/server
[ERROR] checkout: java.lang.NullPointerException: null . I have my vault dir pointed to this vault-cli.

[narendragandhi · Accepted solution]

Hi @AEMnewbie ,

IntelliJ vault plugin is not working with IJ 2020 versions. Refer [1] for issue details.

Meanwhile you could see if you want to downgrade to 2019.3 to make it work temporarily or the recommendation would be to switch to the repo tool [2].

[1] - https://github.com/shsteimer/IntelliVault/issues/31

[2]- https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/experience-manager-65/developing/devtools/aem-repo-tool.html

[Vaibhavi_J]

Hi @AEMnewbie 

Have you set the property in intellij. Please check the below thread. Seems like setting the intellij property fixed the issue. 

https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/intellivault-nullpointerex...

[Nikhil-Kumar]

Try using lower version of IntelliJ, or use the 3.1.16 version of the filevault to pull code from crx.
I am currently using ths combination of IntelliJ 2018.3.4 and vault-cli-3.1.6.
It works absolutely great with AEM 6.5.5 and archetype 22.
You can refer to my post on the same : IntelliJ Setup