Uiautomatorviewer Premature end of file

Question

I have been using uiautomatorViewer for quite a while and today for the first time i got an error :

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/tmp/uiautomatorviewer_2911009098837440934/dump_6467398984523677157.uix; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Premature end of file. at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:198) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:177) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:391) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1404) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1034) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:625) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:488) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:819) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:748) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:123) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1208) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:525) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:392) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:328) at com.android.uiautomator.tree.UiHierarchyXmlLoader.parseXml(UiHierarchyXmlLoader.java:128) at com.android.uiautomator.UiAutomatorModel.(UiAutomatorModel.java:42) at com.android.uiautomator.UiAutomatorHelper.takeSnapshot(UiAutomatorHelper.java:142) at com.android.uiautomator.actions.ScreenshotAction$1.run(ScreenshotAction.java:85) at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121) null rootnode after parsing.

I always get this error when i go to this page and i have no idea why, any ideas?

Answer 1

Just FYI: I filed a bug against the android team. They recently merged a fix for android L: it's working fine now.

Answer 2

Just as a note to anyone else finding this bug, it seems that this issue was accepted by an Android team member on February 25, 2014: Link. So, hopefully it will be fixed in a update soon.