MySQL Bugs: #47115: Unhandled Exception when overwriting exported sql file

Bug #47115	Unhandled Exception when overwriting exported sql file
Submitted:	3 Sep 2009 22:25	Modified:	11 Sep 2009 14:59
Reporter:	Dan Cook	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	5.1.18	OS:	Windows (XP)
Assigned to:	Johannes Taxacher	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Workbench generates an unhandled exception when exporting and overwriting sql file.

How to repeat:
1) Open a new project.
2) Create a new ERR Diagram
3) Add a table to the ERR Diagram
4) Select File->Export->Forward Engineer SQL Create Script.
5) Enter a name in Output SQL file field
6) Press Next until sql script is successfully saved.

Re-export the script and take the defaults.  Do not enter any information in the "Output SQL Field" - just hit Next.

Workbench will report an unhandled exception.

Work around:
Select the Browse button BEFORE hitting next and select the same file.  This will avoid the error.

This is listed as S2 since this could cause somebody to loose their work if they have not saved the project before exporting it.

Exception Log

Attachment: exception.log (application/octet-stream, text), 6.60 KiB.

Not repeatable on Linux Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit.

Please try with the zip package, I suspect it's a packaging bug.

Yes - This is a packaging issue.  The Zip version of windows pops up a dialog instead of crashing.

Thank you for the heads up and feedback. We will remake the MSI and upload a new package as soon as possible.

this was (as already mentioned) a packaging error. we replaced the faulty windows package with a corrected one: mysql-workbench-oss-5.1.18a-win32.msi

An entry was added to the 5.1.18 changelog:

MySQL Workbench generated an unhandled exception when using File, Export, Forward Engineer SQL CREATE Script. The exception was generated if an attempt was made to generate a script so that it wrote over a script already created.