PBF plugin not working (NPE) when trying to save a file that was loaded from a shapefile

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Revision: 8339
Repository Root: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn
Relative URL: ^/trunk
Last Changed Author: stoecker
Last Changed Date: 2015-05-07 17:30:43 +0200 (Thu, 07 May 2015)
Build-Date: 2015-05-08 01:31:23
URL: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
Last Changed Rev: 8339

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (8339 en) Windows 7 64-Bit
Memory Usage: 989 MB / 989 MB (450 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.8.0_45, Oracle Corporation, Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
Dataset consistency test: No problems found

Plugins:
- buildings_tools (31120)
- geotools (31068)
- graphview (31241)
- jts (31002)
- lakewalker (30892)
- mirrored_download (31241)
- opendata (31116)
- pbf (31241)
- reltoolbox (31056)
- routes (30892)
- scoutsigns (46)
- turnrestrictions (31034)
- utilsplugin2 (31153)

Last errors/warnings:
- E: java.lang.NullPointerException
- W: Cannot lock cache directory. Will not use disk cache
- E: null is NOT valid
- E: Reason: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'Metadata'.
- E: java.lang.NullPointerException

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at crosby.binary.StringTable.getIndex(StringTable.java:54)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfWriter$PbfSerializer$Prim.serializeMetadataDense(PbfWriter.java:109)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfWriter$PbfSerializer$NodeGroup.serializeDense(PbfWriter.java:171)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfWriter$PbfSerializer$NodeGroup.serialize(PbfWriter.java:146)
	at crosby.binary.BinarySerializer.processBatch(BinarySerializer.java:121)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfWriter$PbfSerializer$Processor.checkLimit(PbfWriter.java:349)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfWriter$PbfSerializer$Processor.processNode(PbfWriter.java:360)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfWriter$PbfSerializer.process(PbfWriter.java:452)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfWriter.writeData(PbfWriter.java:478)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfWriter.writeLayer(PbfWriter.java:474)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfExporter.doSave(PbfExporter.java:32)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmExporter.save(OsmExporter.java:92)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmExporter.exportData(OsmExporter.java:67)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmExporter.exportData(OsmExporter.java:54)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.actions.SaveActionBase.doInternalSave(SaveActionBase.java:85)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.actions.SaveActionBase.doSave(SaveActionBase.java:57)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.layer.Layer$LayerSaveAsAction.actionPerformed(Layer.java:409)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
	Suppressed: java.lang.NullPointerException
		at crosby.binary.StringTable.getIndex(StringTable.java:54)
		at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfWriter$PbfSerializer$Prim.serializeMetadataDense(PbfWriter.java:109)
		at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfWriter$PbfSerializer$NodeGroup.serializeDense(PbfWriter.java:171)
		at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfWriter$PbfSerializer$NodeGroup.serialize(PbfWriter.java:146)
		at crosby.binary.BinarySerializer.processBatch(BinarySerializer.java:121)
		at crosby.binary.BinarySerializer.flush(BinarySerializer.java:96)
		at crosby.binary.BinarySerializer.close(BinarySerializer.java:101)
		at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfWriter.close(PbfWriter.java:484)
		at org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.pbf.io.PbfExporter.doSave(PbfExporter.java:36)
		... 45 more

[Don-vip]

Closed as duplicate of #11169.