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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, java

Research direction

Start with B2CConfiguration.java and the B2CModeFragment authentication flow described in the report. Reproduce the custom-policy flow in Android Studio and inspect the logged null Long value. Done means the MSAL authentication flow completes successfully without the NullPointerException.

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Description

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This issue is for a: (mark with an x)
- [ x] bug report -> please search issues before submitting
- [ ] feature request
- [ ] documentation issue or request
- [ ] regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped in a new release)
Minimal steps to reproduce

git clone project, load in Android Studio, update B2CConfiguration.java (Custom Policy), build/run the app in Android Studio, select B2C, run flow

Any log messages given by the failure

2020-04-09 15:03:25.392 9962-9962/com.azuresamples.msalandroidapp D/B2CModeFragment: Authentication failed: com.microsoft.identity.client.exception.MsalClientException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'long java.lang.Long.longValue()' on a null object reference

This is the same issue as observed in another MSAL sample https://github.com/Azure-Samples/ms-identity-android-native/issues/15

Expected/desired behavior

MSAL auth to work.

OS and Version?

Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). macOS (Yosemite? El Capitan? Sierra?)
Win10

Versions

10.0.18362.720

Mention any other details that might be useful

Android Studio 3.6.2


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