When yang-maven-plugin is not able to find module imported from yang file then NPE is thrown. There is no information about the root cause of the problem.

How to reproduce:
1. Create yang file which uses config module like:
module producer {
yang-version 1;
namespace "urn:amartus:odl:test:config:producer";
prefix prod;

import config

description "Producer service definition";

revision 2014-08-13

identity producer

}

2. Do not add required dependency in maven configuration

<dependency>
<groupId>org.opendaylight.controller</groupId>
<artifactId>config-api</artifactId>
</dependency>

3. run mvn clean install

Following exception is reported:

[INFO] — yang-maven-plugin:0.6.2-SNAPSHOT:generate-sources (default) @ producer-model —
[INFO] yang-to-sources: Inspecting /home/dariusz/work/opendaylight/git/storm-yang/playground/odl-yang-config/producer-model/src/main/yang
[INFO] yang-to-sources: Searching for yang files in following dependencies: []
[INFO] yang-to-sources: Searching for yang files in following dependencies: []
[ERROR] yang-to-sources: Unable to parse yang files from /home/dariusz/work/opendaylight/git/storm-yang/playground/odl-yang-config/producer-model/src/main/yang
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.parser.impl.YangParserListenerImpl.parseQName(YangParserListenerImpl.java:585)
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.parser.impl.YangParserListenerImpl.handleUnknownNode(YangParserListenerImpl.java:1143)
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.parser.impl.YangParserListenerImpl.enterIdentifier_stmt(YangParserListenerImpl.java:925)
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.antlrv4.code.gen.YangParser$Identifier_stmtContext.enterRule(YangParser.java:279)
at org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree.ParseTreeWalker.enterRule(ParseTreeWalker.java:66)
at org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree.ParseTreeWalker.walk(ParseTreeWalker.java:49)
at org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree.ParseTreeWalker.walk(ParseTreeWalker.java:52)
at org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree.ParseTreeWalker.walk(ParseTreeWalker.java:52)
at org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree.ParseTreeWalker.walk(ParseTreeWalker.java:52)
at org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree.ParseTreeWalker.walk(ParseTreeWalker.java:52)
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.parser.impl.YangParserImpl.parseSourcesToBuilders(YangParserImpl.java:405)
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.parser.impl.YangParserImpl.resolveSources(YangParserImpl.java:378)
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.parser.impl.YangParserImpl.parseYangModelSources(YangParserImpl.java:350)
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.parser.impl.YangParserImpl.parseYangModelsFromStreamsMapped(YangParserImpl.java:308)
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang2sources.plugin.YangToSourcesProcessor.processYang(YangToSourcesProcessor.java:151)
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang2sources.plugin.YangToSourcesProcessor.execute(YangToSourcesProcessor.java:82)
at org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang2sources.plugin.YangToSourcesMojo.execute(YangToSourcesMojo.java:122)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:320)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352)

It would be nice to have information which module is missing instead.